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'File 82/1 III (F 64) Prospecting licenses for Kuwait, Bahrain, Nejd, Trucial Coast and Oman' [45r] (104/651)
The record is made up of 1 file (322 folios). It was created in 28 Nov 1923-9 Sep 1925. It was written in English and Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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ENCLOSURE TO DESPATOH—
m OF
Britannic House, '
Persian Oil Company Limited. wrerit Winchester street,
London, E.G.2.
18th February,1924.
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office, S.W.I.
Sir,
We have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of your letter No. 5927/24 of the 15th instant relative
to our application for an oil concession in the territory
of the Shaikh of Qatar.
2. We are very pleased to note that the Eastern
and General Syndicate have been informed that permission
to proceed with negotiations for an oil concession over
this area could not be granted to them on political
grounds, and taat His Majesty's Government recognises
the prior trlaim of another applicant.
We trust that Mr. Secretary Thomas will be so
good as to cause us to be inforaed if and when political
conditions in the territory of the Shaikh of Qatar improve
sufficiently to permit of negotiations with the latter
being instituted.
We have etc.,
(Sd) H.E.Nichols.
Director.
For the Anglo Persian Oil Comoanv
Ltd."
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The volume contains correspondence and telegrams between the Political Department, the Colonial Office and the Secretary of State at the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. in London, the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. at Bushire, the Political Agents at Kuwait and Sharjah, local rulers, and Anglo Persian Oil Company (APOC) representatives on the negotiations for oil concessions in Kuwait, Bahrain, Nejd [Najd, Jubail, Saudi Arabia], Qatar, Muscat, Oman and Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. against the competitor Eastern and General Syndicate Limited, represented by Major Frank Holmes.
The volume includes the agreement on the oil exploration license in Muscat and Oman, in Arabic and English, signed on 18 May 1925, between Saiyid Taimur bin Faisal, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, and D'Arcy Exploration Company limited (folios 281-296).
- Extent and format
- 1 file (322 folios)
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The documents in the volume are mostly arranged in chronological order.
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The main foliation is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. The numbering begins with the first item of correspondence, on number 1, and ends with the last folio of writing, on number 314.
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- English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script View the complete information for this record
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- IOR/R/15/1/620
- Title
- 'File 82/1 III (F 64) Prospecting licenses for Kuwait, Bahrain, Nejd, Trucial Coast and Oman'
- Pages
- 3r, 39r:40r, 45r, 54r, 90r, 189r:190r, 223r, 262r:263r
- Author
- Nichols, Howard
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