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Ministry of Power and successors: Petroleum Division and successors: Registered Files...
Catalogue reference: POWE 63
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POWE 63
Registered files of the PET series, which appears to have been opened in 1965 or 1966 to serve the whole of the Petroleum Division. This series succeeded the P, PD (which related to the Division's overseas responsibilities) and PE (the Division's...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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POWE 63
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Power and successors: Petroleum Division and successors: Registered Files (PET Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1981-2000
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Description (What the record is about)
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Registered files of the PET series, which appears to have been opened in 1965 or 1966 to serve the whole of the Petroleum Division. This series succeeded the P, PD (which related to the Division's overseas responsibilities) and PE (the Division's domestic work) series.
This series contains registered files of the Petroleum Division of the Ministry of Power and its successors, covering the domestic and international work of the division. Subjects covered include pipeline development and oil storage, the development of the Sullom Voe oil terminal in the Shetland Isles and terminals in other oil and gas fields, oil imports and supplies, oil pollution, production licensing, gas gathering pipelines, offshore platforms, offshore safety, legislation, contingency planning, depletion, the delimitation of the Continental Shelf, labour relations, overseas interests of British oil companies, the pricing of North Sea oil and gas, royalties, taxation, papers relating to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Oil Committee, the 1967 and 1973 Middle East oil crises, the British National Oil Corporation and the oil embargo against Rhodesia.
Also included in this series are files relating to the collapse of the 'Sea Gem' drilling platform on 27 December 1965, the official investigation which followed, and the preparation of subsequent safety legislation in connection with similar disasters (see also POWE 46).
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The files in this series are being transferred in more than one batch. They are arranged in previous reference order within each accession.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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PET file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Department of Industry, 1974-1983
- Department of Trade and Industry, 1970-1974
- Department of Trade and Industry, 1983-2007
- Ministry of Power, 1957-1969
- Ministry of Power, Petroleum Division, 1957-1969
- Ministry of Technology, Petroleum Division, 1969-1970
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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2277 files and flat sheets
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1993 Department of Trade and Industry
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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This series contains registered files of the Petroleum Division of the Ministryof Power and its successors, covering the domestic and international work ofthe division.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11879/
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