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star ted In 1945 have been completed and 13 additional
2-bedroom houses are in the course of construction. The
increased number of families also necessitated a 2-room
extension to the Awali school. The 52 room bunkhouse no
longer required for living quarters is boing converted
into a native hospital.
(k) personnel.

The following gives a summary of the personnel
employed by the company on their regular operations and
on additional construction work during the year:-
Americans • • • 120 (Including 18 Con-
trac tors' employees)
British (U.K.) ... 348
Canadians • • • 60
South Africans • • • 24
Other Europeans 11
British Indians 554
Iraqis • t • 8
Bahreinis ... 3,170
Others • • • 641
Total 4,936

22. PETROLEUM CONCESSIONS LIMITED.
(1) This year the company were able to resume geological
exploration and drilling in their various concessionary
areas in the Persian Gulf. A geophysical survey party
visited the Trucial Coast in the spring and again in the
autumn of 1946. Arrangements had been made for a seismic
survey party to visit Qatar in the autumn but the U.S.A.
seamen's strikes delayed the party, and they are now
expected to begin work early in 1947.
(ii) QATAR.
In April, 1946, Dukhan Camp was re-opened and pre­
parations made for a drilling programme to be started in
the autumn. This plan was abandoned in October and it was
decided instead to aqip speed up production, and
January, 1949, was fixed as a provisional date for the
first export. Preliminary general surveys were carried out
in November along the projected route of a pipe-line and
pipe line road and locations for a terminal oil dock site,
a permanent camp, and unloading points for heavy equipment
were examined. It has been proposed to build a road from
a new harbour near Al Hamlab on the west coast of Qatar
across the peninsula to a Jetty at Wakrah, with forks to
Doha and a terminal oil dock in the vicinity of El Arrif.
More will be! known of the practicability of these proposals
when H.M.S. "Challenger” has completed her survey of Qatar
territorial waters which she began in November of this year.
(ill) TRUCIAL COAST.
In the first part of the year surface geology was
carried out in the following areas
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