From Under Desert Sands – ADCO’s 40 Years of Oil Exports

A history of the Abu Dhabi Company For Onshore Oil Operations  (ADCO), published in small numbers in 2003 to mark 40 years since the company first started exporting oil.

ADCO was originally known as the Abu Dhabi Petroleum Company and Petroleum Development (Trucial Coast), and played a key role in the economic development of the emirate of Abu Dhabi. It was later absorbed into ADNOC.

The book features hundreds of scarce photographs and other archive material from the period, both of oil-related activities and of the wider development of Abu Dhabi and its people.

Copies are now difficult to find. This example is accompanied by an original presentation letter from Andre Von Strijp, the company’s GM at the time of the book’s publication.

Published by ADNOC in 2003. Hardcover, in near-fine condition. 250 pages, bilingual text English/Arabic.