Oil well, Dar al-Naft Oil Museum, Jabal Ad Dukhan, Bahrain

Nodding donkey at an oil well in the Bahraini desert, the first to be dug in Bahrain, next to the Dar al-Naft Oil Museum, run by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (Bapco), at Jabal Ad Dukhan, Bahrain. This was the first producing oil well in the Gulf, spudded in 1931 and striking oil in 1932. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Nodding donkey at an oil well in the Bahraini desert, the first to be dug in Bahrain, next to the Dar al-Naft Oil Museum, run by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (Bapco), at Jabal Ad Dukhan, Bahrain. This was the first producing oil well in the Gulf, spudded in 1931 and striking oil in 1932. Picture by Manuel Cohen