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(o) Producing Field
Activities in the field during the year wore alnoat
entirely devotod te the rehabilitation of wello which had
bo«a olosod down in 1942 in accordance with tho Oil Dentil
Soheae# The progress of this work was noro rapid than was

expected with the result that tho field was roturnod to a state
approaching its former degree of flexibility earlier than had
been anticipated# By the end of tho year only oight of the
original fortyono tolls included in tho Denial Scheme remained

to be rehabilitated# No work of a development nature was
undertaken and only minor repair works were carried out to
producing wells#
(d) Inport of Arch lan American Crude Oil
The total imports of Arabian American crude oil amounted
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to 71137,773 not barrels and this was handled through tho
Zollaq marine terminal# in 1942 tho Zollaq equipment had been
augmented to ycrmit of tho handling of crude at a maximum rata

of O,CC0 barrels per operating duy and although up till this
year this high level was never attained it was found necessary
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in order to deal with increased crude requirements necessitated
by tho new construction programme to overhaul the existing

equipment and augment the handling capacity to 45,000 barrels
per operating day#
As a part of the Refinery Expansion programme a twelve

inch erode oil line running froa the neighbourhood of Zellaq
to the Refinery has been completed# The work of laying a
twelve inch submarine line froa the Arabian ABerloan Oil
Coepany's premises has been undertaken and it Is hoped that

the Bahrain Island section will be linked to the submarine
line early in 1043 and that it will then ba possible to pasty
Arabian laoricaa crude direct froa the producing area to the
Bahrain Petroleua Company's Refinery*

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Drslcj t&a year ttsflw ?wlcro a total of 13,723,223 fcarysl*
of esxCo vsr# prccaasod In tLs ncflsary. ehl^zcr.ta of