'(F 69) File 82/26 A.P.O.C. - Muscat Oil Concession'

Title:

'(F 69) File 82/26 A.P.O.C. - Muscat Oil Concession'

Contributor:

Political Agent and Consul, Muscat (correspondent)
D'Arcy Exploration Company Limited (correspondent)

Date:

1925/1928

Description:

The volume contains correspondence, telegrams and notes of meetings between the Political Agent at Muscat and the Political Resident at Bahrain and Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) representatives regarding geologic surveys of Dhofar, Massirah and Batinah, Muskat, in Oman, and Gwadar, in Pakistan, carried on by geologists employed by D'Arcy Exploration Company. The volume contains an extract from the account of the expedition to Muscat (folios 44-45) and some letters to and from the Amīr of Ja‘lān, Muḥammad bin Nāṣir Āl Ḥamūdah.There are some maps within the file:Reduction to show Relationships of the Combined Plane Table and Prismatic Compass Sketch Map of the Country between JEBEL RODHAH, SOHAR AND IBRI, OMAN, ARABIA, with the Oman peninsula (f. 18A);Sketch map of the Omani and Emirati coast from Muscat northbound (f. 18B);Map extracted from Geographical Journal Sep. 1925' showing Oman and Trucial States (f. 18C);'Map showing coast and ports of Oman' (f. 36A), drawn by Mr Bower.1 file (77 folios)The documents in the volume are mostly arranged in chronological order.The foliation is written in pencil and can be found in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.The numbering commences at the first folio with 1, 1A, 1B, 1C and 1D; 2-3; 4 and 4A; 5-7; 8 and 8A; 9-17; 18, 18A, 18B and 18C; 19-36; 37 and 37A; 38-60; 61 and 61A and then it carries on until 66, which is the last number given to the last folio.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Geological surveys

Extent:

1 file (77 folios)

Rights:

Creative Commons Non-Commercial Licence
Unknown
Open Government Licence

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000193.0x000257_ar
81055/vdc_100000000193.0x000257_en
IOR/R/15/1/625

Is part of:

British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers

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