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Coll 6/48 'Oil: Concessions in Saudi Arabia. (Hasa)' [9v] (18/1153)
The record is made up of 1 file (574 folios). It was created in 8 Dec 1923-11 Jul 1945. It was written in English. 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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country, nor shall it extend to the personal requirements of the individual
employees of the Company. Any materials imported free of duty may not be sold
within the country without first paying the corresponding import duty.
Article 'I'l.
It is understood, of course, that the Company has the right to use all means
and facilities it may deem necessary or advisable in order to exercise the right!
granted under this contract, so as to carry out the purposes of this enterprise,
including, among other things the right to construct and use roads, camps,
buildings, structures and all systems of communication; to install and operate
machinery, equipment and facilities in connexion with the drilling of wells,
or in connexion with the transportation, storage, treatment, manufacture, dealing
with, or exportation of-petroleum or its derivatives, or in connexion with the
camps, buildings and quarters of the personnel of the Company; to construct
and use storage reservoirs, tanks and receptacles; to construct and operate
wharves, piers, sea-loading lines and all other terminal and port facilities; and
to use all forms of transportation of personnel or equipment, and of petroleum
and its derivatives. It is understood, however, that the use of aeroplanes within
the country shall be the subject of a separate agreement.
The Company shall also have the right to develop, carry away and use
water. It likewise shall have the right to carry away and use any water
belonging to the Government, for the operations of the enterprise, but so as
not to prejudice irrigation or to deprive any lands, houses, or watering places
for cattle, of a reasonable supply of water from time to time.
The Company may also take and use, but only to the extent necessary for
the purposes of the enterprise, other national products belonging to the Govern
ment, such as surface soil, timber, stone, lime, gypsum, stone and similar
substances.
Government officials and agents, in pursuance of official business, shall have
the right to use such communication and transportation facilities as the Company
may establish, provided that such use shall not obstruct or interfere with the
Company’s operations hereunder and shall not impose upon the Company any
substantial burden of expense. ,
In times of national emergency, the use of the Company’s transportation
and communication facilities by the Government shall entitle the Company to
fair compensation for any loss it may sustain thereby, whether through damages
to the Company’s facilities, equipment or installations or through the obstruction
or interference with the Company’s operations.
Article 23.
The enterprise under this contract shall be directed and supervised by
Americans who shall employ Saudi Arab nationals as far as practicable, and
in so far as the Company can find suitable Saudi Arab employees it will not
employ other nationals.
In respect of the treatment of workers, the Company shall abide by the
existing laws of the country applicable generally to workers of any other
industrial enterprise.
Article 24.
The Government reserves the right to search for and obtain any substances
or products, other than those exclusively granted by this contract, within the
area covered by this agreement, except lands occupied by wells or other installa
tions of the Company, provided always that the right thus reserved by the
Government shall be exercised so as not to endanger the operations of the
Company or interfere with its rights hereunder, and provided also that a fair
compensation shall be paid the Company by the Government for all damage
the Company may sustain through the exercise of the right so reserved by the
Government. In any grant of such right so reserved by the Government, the
concessionnaire shall be bound by the provisions of this Article.
Article 25.
The Company is hereby empowered by the Government to acquire from any
occupant the surface rights of any land which the Company may find necessary
to use in connexion with the enterprise, provided that the Company shall pay
the occupant for depriving him of the use of the land. The payment shall be
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This file relates to oil concessions in Saudi Arabia, particularly the Hasa [Al Hasa] concession between the Government of Saudi Arabia and the Standard Oil Company of California (SoCal). It includes discussion of the following:
- Oil negotiations in Saudi Arabia during March and April 1933, and the reported involvement of Major Frank Holmes in negotiations relating to the Kuwait (also spelled Koweit in the file) [Saudi-Kuwaiti] neutral zone.
- Details of an agreement for the oil concession relating to the Hasa region of Saudi Arabia, made between the Government of Saudi Arabia and SoCal (signed on 27 May 1933), and assigned by SoCal to its subsidiary, the California Arabian Standard Oil Company (Casoc).
- British concerns regarding a request made by Casoc via the United States Embassy for its aeroplane to be permitted to fly over Kuwait and Bahrain, as part of a survey of the region relating to its oil concession.
- Reports that Casoc may be interested in exhanging the southern half of its Hasa concession for land further west, and the effect that this might have on Britain's negotiations with Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd].
- Reports of the discovery of oil in Hasa in 1935, and the discovery of commercial quantities of oil there in March 1938.
- Reports that Casoc is considering the possibility of laying a pipeline from Hasa to Bahrain.
- Casoc's oil rights in the Kuwait neutral zone.
- The progress of operations carried out in Hasa by Casoc, including the status of its wells at Dhahran.
- An account of a visit made by the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Bahrain (Hugh Weightman) to Casoc's site at Dhahran as well as to other areas in the region, in May 1939.
- Details of a loan from Casoc to the Government of Saudi Arabia.
- Reports of Casoc having taken the decision to construct a refinery at Ras Tanura.
The file features the following principal correspondents: 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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Bahrain; the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Kuwait; the Secretary of State for the Colonies; His Majesty's Chargé d’Affaires, Jedda; the His Majesty's Minister at Jedda; officials of the Foreign Office, 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. , the War Office, the Air Ministry, and the Petroleum Department; representatives of Casoc.
In addition to correspondence the file includes the following:
- Copies of the oil agreement and a supplementary agreement between the Government of Saudi Arabia and the Standard Oil Company of California, dated 1933 and 1939 respectively.
- Extracts from Bahrain and Kuwait intelligence reports.
- The minutes of an interdepartmental meeting held at the Colonial Office on 26 April 1933, concerning British interests in oil in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (notably Kuwait, Bahrain, Hasa in Saudi Arabia, and the Kuwaiti neutral zone).
- Draft and final copies of a War Office report entitled 'Brief Summary of the Oil Situation in the Middle East, November 1934'.
The date range of the volume is 1923-1945 but only a handful of items date from before 1933. These include copies of 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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. 's correspondence with the Secretary of State for the Colonies and the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India respectively, which date from 1923 to 1926 and concern the possibility of oil development both in Qatar and on the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. .
The file includes three dividers which give a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. These are placed at the back of the correspondence (folios 2-4).
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- 1 file (574 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 575; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- Coll 6/48 'Oil: Concessions in Saudi Arabia. (Hasa)'
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- 7r:11r, 11v:14v, 61v:64v, 97v:101v, 148r:149v, 235r:243v, 250r:251v, 423r:439v, 458v:462v
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