Efforts to improve water supplies in Trucial States

This file contains:

• Correspondence relating to the purchase of three pumping sets for Dubai and installation assistance from Gray Mackenzie & Company engineers (20)
• Associated Drilling & Supply Company (Overseas) Limited's (ADSCO) completion report for borehole five (21)
• Request for advice from Sheikh Shakhbut Bin Sultan Al Nahyan via Chandler Brothers, Colwell & How on the question of drilling for drinkable water at Abu Dhabi and related correspondence (22)
• Correspondence relating to the Ruler of Sharjah Sheikh Saqr Bin Sultan Al Qasimi's desire to buy the drilling rig and equipment used at Ras Al Khaimah with a view to operating it himself. HMG think this is ill-advised (23, 27, 32)
• ADSCO's completion reports for boreholes six to ten (24)
• ADSCO's completion report for borehole 11 (25)
• Correspondence between Chandler Brothers and the Iraq Petroleum Company on the subject of Sheikh Shakhbut's desire to locate an underground water supply in Abu Dhabi (26)
• Water project expenditure figures and a request for ADSCO's estimates. It also contains correspondence relating to the completion of drilling at Ras Al Khaimah and the installation of a water pipe at Dhaid in Sharjah (27)
• Report by the senior geologist of the Qatar Petroleum Company J McGinty on the prospects of finding potable water in Abu Dhabi and recommended solutions. It also contains related correspondence (28)
• Correspondence relating to drilling for water at Dhaid in Sharjah (29)
• ADSCO's invoices and monthly summaries of work (30-31, 35, 39, 42)
• Correspondence relating to the progress in drilling for water at Dhaid (32)
• ADSCO's completion report for borehole 12 at Dhaid (33)
• Expenditure figures on Trucial Coast development projects in 1954-5 and the draft programme for 1955-6. It also contains correspondence relating to the successful completion of drilling at Dhaid (34)
• Correspondence confirming that expenditure should be charged under the heading 'Trucial Coast Development' (37)
• Correspondence relating to the installation of a pump at Ras Al Khaimah and a suggestion that no more be purchased or installed until the arrival of L W Huntington and Dr Aubrey Van Ollenbach (38)
• Correspondence relating to the question of recovering casing from the boreholes and whether any credit might be expected from ADSCO (40)
• Correspondence relating to ADSCO's bill for the return of drilling equipment (41)