Operations of the Bahrain Petroleum Company

This file contains correspondence relating to:

• Conversation between the Ruler of Bahrain Sheikh Salman Bin Hamad Al Khalifa and officials from the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (Bapco) regarding the production of oil from a well in the Bahrain seabed area. It also includes the Ruler's queries regarding the Zubarah question, the delimitation of the seabed and the probability of him visiting King Saud Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia (1)
• Proposed visit of Sheikh Salman and Sir Charles Belgrave to King Saud, with a map from Bapco showing the Fasht Bu Saafa [Abu Sa'afah] structure (2)
• Rate of oil production in Bahrain, including a letter to Sheikh Salman setting out the reasons for the proposed decrease in oil production and conversations between J W Wall and Bapco, and Wall and Sheikh Salman (3-4)
• Bapco documents, including: copies of the accounts for the second half of 1952; petroleum products exports and refinery operations; and the annual report to the Ruler of Bahrain for 1953 (5-8, 10)
• Information for Sir Rupert Hay on: the Standard Oil Company of California, the Texas Company, Caltex (UK) Limited and Bapco (9)