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Coll 30/110(4) 'Trucial Coast Oil Concession: Muscat Oil Concession. Hinterland Exploration & Survey.' [94r] (189/675)
The record is made up of 1 file (336 folios). It was created in 18 Jan 1945-22 Mar 1948. 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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5, London Goutt,
Moira Street,
Calcutta.
1st March, 1947.
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Sir Cjiril S. Fox.
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His Highness,
The Sultan of Muscat and •Oman,
at Sslalah, Dhufar Province,
South East Arabia.
Subject:- A mineral audit of the Industrial Resources of
Dhufar Province.
I have the honour to say that I arrived back in India
on the 17th February, 1S47, after my visit and tours in Dhufar
and brought with me all the specimens I collected and which I
thought should be examined more thoroughly than was possible at
Salalah. The specimens for chemical analysis have been handed
to Messrs. R.V. Briggs & Co., 3 & 4, Garstin Place, Calcutta*
The fossils and some of tne mineral and rock specimens have been
sent to the Director, Geological Survey of India, 27 Chowringhee,
Calcutta, for indentification or determination.
In the meanwhile 1 have searched the literature dealing with
south-eastern iirabia, and Muscat and 'Oman, and particularly with
regard to Dhufar. The chief papers are of course those of H.J.
Carter of 1846 or a century ago, and G.M. Lees of 1928, for accurate
geological information. I have read very carefully "Southern Arabia"
by Mr <1 Mrs. Theodore Bent as well as "ARabia Felix" by Mr. Bertram
Thomas, for data they collected, but I have made a thorough scrutiny
of all available literature on travel on S.E. Arabia.
Carter, the Bents and others have recorded their difficult
ies due to tribal disturbances, and Mr. Lees has said that without
the hospitality of the Sheikhs it would be impossible to carry out
explorations. This relates to barely 15 years ago. It is therefore
my duty to record that those sheikhs and others who were my guides
and helpers across the Qara Mountains were most attentive and kind
and most anxious that their assistance, if useful, should be made
known to yourself. This shows^tiiMt "the Bultan's writ" does now
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cover a much larger area tha n previously.
Although I have begun the draft of the report 1 will have
to wait, perhaps a week longer, for tne assays, etc., before 1 can
complete and forward it as I said I would do in duplicate.
Meanwhile I will be sending a rough Cover Page and Title Page
(typed copy) of the broyfchure as it might be published. Please
return the copy if it necessary to make emendations. The actual
publication cannot be taken in hand until you have read and approved
of the report.
It is impossible to thank you for all your kindness and
considerations, but 1 will cherish the memory of a Ruler who is
anxious to lift his people and country.
Yours sincerely,
(Signed). Cyril S. Fox.
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The file concerns geological and geophysical surveys for oil and other minerals in the hinterland of Muscat and Oman (especially Dhofar Province, also referred to as Dhufar) and the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. (especially Sharjah) undertaken by the substantially British-owned Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC) and its subsidiaries Petroleum Concessions Limited, Petroleum Development ( Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. ) Limited, and Petroleum Development (Oman and Dhofar) Limited. The British Government were keen to assist IPC to resume exploration, which had been discontinued during the Second World War, in view of the political, strategic and economic importance of the Company's oil concessions in the area (folio 275).
The papers include: the extent to which certain tribal areas were under the control of local rulers; the need for demarcation of the boundaries of the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. states; list of concession and political agreements in force in 1945 in the various Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. states (folios 267-268); interest on the part of the Shaikh of Fujairah in entering into treaty relations with the British Government (folio 210); minutes of meetings 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. between British Government officials and oil company representatives; permission from the British Government to employ American personnel in survey work (folios 186-193); papers concerning a report by Sir Cyril Sankey Fox, formerly Director of the Geological Survey of India, for the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman entitled 'The Geology and Mineral and Other Resources of Dhufar Province and Other Parts of the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, South-East Arabia', March-May 1947 (folios 64-100), including correspondence from the author of the report; sketch map provided 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. , Muscat (Major Andrew Charles Stewart), which is said by him to have been marked by the Sultan of Muscat [Sa‘īd ibn Taymūr] to show the western boundary of Dhofar (folio 68); a request by Petroleum Development ( Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. ) Limited that geological factors be taken into account in determining the boundary between Abu Dhabi and Dubai, with sketch map (folios 57-58); Petroleum Concessions Limited 'Instructions to Field Party for Geological Reconnaissance of Southeastern Hadhramaut, the Mahra, and Dhofar' (folios 49-53); and minutes of Foreign Office meeting to discuss the south-eastern frontiers of Saudi Arabia, July 1947.
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (336 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 main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside the front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 336; these numbers are written in pencil 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 327-335; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and have been crossed out. Finally, the second folio is listed as ‘1A’ rather than ‘2.’
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- Coll 30/110(4) 'Trucial Coast Oil Concession: Muscat Oil Concession. Hinterland Exploration & Survey.'
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- 71r:87v, 93r:95v
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- Fox, Sir Cyril S
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