'File 5/1 XIV Kuwait Oil Company' [‎133r] (272/570)

ARTICLE IN HEW3PAPBH "AL SIJIL" DATED 6«7,g7 .
HUs tha Kuwait Oil Co* failed at Kuwait
ie this failure becoming a danger (at the
finish).
The K.O.C. drilling on the iforth side (of the hay)
has ended in nothing*
The Company lias encountered failure there, not having
found oil after having spent considerable sums of money and
working for a whole year on the site reconraended by the
Geologists* The equipment has now been taken away and no
one is left there* Therefore the Kuwaitis have lost their
hopes of oil or black gold as it is called these days*
people who have come from Kuwait say that the Company is
doing its best in^ survey of the south but the slowness ox
results show that they are uncertain of success - they believe
that the only place in Kuwait territory that has deep oil is
Subahiyah* This place the Saudi government claims as it is
part of the land in which Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are partners,
in accordance with the agreement mode at Ojair in 1922.
The Kuwaitis who are reasonable men are asking (?) is
there any reason for this failure and is it a bona flue failure .
The Kuwaitis think that after the failure in the North
the K*C*C. are surveying the south (though they know the only
plentiful supply of oil is at Subahiyah) in order to alter
the agreement between themselves and the She^I iq ox Kuwait,
as they are relying on the following:-
1. The K#0*C. did not commence work in the north until the
Geological party toad finished surveying the ground with a view
to finding the likeliest place to drill for oil* A Chief
Geologist cam© to Kuwait to give his opinion of the survey
of tlje Geological Party and agreed their report* Eow then
have they failed after all this accurate survey and is it true
that the K.O.C. spent the amount of money they are reputed to
have spent on 500 labourers in one year unless they knew there
was oil there?