'File 28/1 N II Bahrain oil – production figures'

The file comprises correspondence and statistical tables relating to the production of oil and associated petroleum products by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) after the Second World War. The principal correspondents in the file are the Chief Local Representative for BAPCO (R M Brown, replacing Ward P Anderson) and the Political Agent in Bahrain (Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Galloway; Cornelius Pelly). The file is a direct chronological continuation of 'File 28/1 N I Bahrain oil' (IOR/R/15/2/666). The file includes:. monthly oil production reports, submitted by BAPCO to the Political Agency between March 1946 and June 1946, containing monthly output volumes (in barrels and tons) for: crude oil throughput, and output of motor spirits, kerosene, power kerosene, diesel oil, fuel oil and aviation spirits (ff 2-11); correspondence from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel William Rupert Hay), to Pelly, in May 1947, concerning a request from the Petroleum Representative of the Ministry of Fuel and Power, Middle East Office, for statistical data on BAPCO's crude oil throughput and oil refinery output, for the period July 1946 onwards (f 14); compiled statistical data for the period July 1946 to April 1947, for production and output at the Bahrain refinery, including motor spirit, kerosene (burning oil), kerosene (vaporising), gas oil, diesel oil, fuel oil and aviation spirit, and refinery input figures for both Bahrain and Arabian crude, given in 'tons of 2,240 lbs' (ff 16-25)

The file's contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the earliest item at the front to the latest at the end. The file notes at the end of the file (ff 28-29) mirror the chronological arrangement.

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