The oil companies scouring the Libyan desert for oil relied on subcontractors for support. These subcontractors consisted of firms and individuals. Geologists, seismic specialists, cooks, etc. were needed, as were aerial survey/exploration/cargo-hauling aircraft and the crews to operate them.
An outfit called Silver City Airways owned a fleet of aircraft that were based at both Benghazi and at Tripoli. The company got most of its work from Esso (now known as Exxon), but the firm also took on work for BP and its subsidiary, D'Arcy Exploration Company, Ltd.
The regions being explored for oil were divided into individual "concessions", which were identified numerically. One of the concessions granted to D'Arcy Exploration was assigned the number 37, and it was located on the Cyrenaica region of Libya.
Quite a ways south of Concession Number 37 was a largely unexplored region for which D'Arcy had applied for permission to explore (from the Libyan government), which was called "Application 121."
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