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and continued in charge of these duties for the rest of
the year.

(ii) Production and Development
A total of 61240,627 net "barrels of crude oil was
produced from the Bahrain Field during the year. No new

wells were drilled or completed during this period.
Exploration work in the Additional Area was continued
during most of the year.
(iii) Import of Arabian Crude Oil I !
Facilities for receiving up to 35,000 barrels per day

of Arabian crude oil were installed at the Zellaq Terminal.
i
These facilities included a deep water wharf, submarine
I
line, steam plant, pumping equipment and a new 13,000 barrel
tank. An additional crude oil line from the Zellaq Terminal

to the Refinery was also installed. The quantity of
Arabian crude oil imported during 1942 was approximately
4,429,000 barrels.
(iv) Refinery '
Preparations were made, including the installation of

new pipe lines within the Refinery Area, to increase the
crude oil processing rate from the normal 33,500 barrels
per calendar day^ to 60,000 barrels per calendar day. The
Refinery was not called upon to process this additional

crude oil and certain planned alterations to wwrtttdft v***10**
individual processing units were not, in fact, carried out.
No new processing equipment was installed in the
Refinery during 1942. Large expenditure was, however,
incurred under the direction of the military authorities %

During the months of May, June and JUly crude runs
only
averaged^662,000 barrels per month or approximately 66% of
normal crude capacity, and large sections of the refinery
were