Description | Three volumes of typescript geological reports with maps, sections and photographs on petroleum sources in Trinidad collated by Dr R K Richardson of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company Ltd, 1927.
Volume 1 - 'Collected Geological Reports - APOC [Anglo-Persian Oil Company] Party and TCO [Trinidad Central Oilfields] Properties - Trinidad', July 1927.
Volume [?2] - 'General report on Trinidad' by R K Richardson, 1927.
Volume 3 - 'Palaeontological and other reports, Trinidad. A collection of Palaeontological and other reports from various sources, forming a useful reference', collated by R K Richardson, 26 April 1927. |
Administrative History | The reports concern the investigations of the developed properties and potential oil lands held under leases in Trinidad, primarily by the companies British Controlled Oilfields Ltd and Trinidad Central Oilfields Ltd. The surveying party consisted of: R K Richardson, A G H Mayhew, W A Franklin, A G Bell, J V Harrison, J P de Verteuil, R F Noel Paton, A W Guest, W Gray, HCG Newton and G M Shaw, the resulting references of the reports bear their initials. The survey appears to have run from the autumn of 1926 to the summer of 1927. |