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Coll 30/138 'Oil: Debai Political Agreement and Refinery Agreement.' [7v] (14/369)
The record is made up of 1 file (183 folios). It was created in 2 Apr 1936-25 May 1937. 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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by them, but the Company shall not sell or give alcoholic drinks or liquors to the
subjects’of the Shaikh or to the subjects of adjoining Rulers who may be employed
within the State.
Article 10. The employees of the Company shall be allowed to enter into and
to leave the State at all times without let or hindrance and free of all charge, ami
the Shaikh shall grant to the Company’s employees every facility required for the ^
purpose of the Company’s operations hereunder.
But the Company’s employees shall not interfere or by their actions cause any
disturbance or cause opposition to the Shaikh’s authority within the State of Dubai
and the employees shall not go beyond the limit of their duties when employed
within or when leaving the confines of the State of Dubai for the purpose of this
Agreement.
Further in the event of any of the Company’s employees—whether he be a
senior or a junior employee—committing an offence which may cause disorder or
interfere with the moral or religious laws or interfere with the politics or subjects
of the State of Dubai or excite them to sedition, then the Shaikh may apply to 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, to send the person concerned—if a foreigner—out of
the State of Dubai, but if a subject of the Shaikh then the Shaikh may arrest the
culprit and deal with him according to the laws of the State of Dubai.
Article 11.—(a) For the purpose of its operations hereunder the Company shall
have the right without hindrance to construct, maintain and operate power
stations, refineries, pipelines and storage tanks, facilities for water supply including
boring for water, telegraph and telephone lines and installations and wireless
installations, roads, railways, tramways, buildings, ports, harbours, harbour works,
aircraft, buildings and landing places for aircraft, wharves and jetties, oil and
coaling stations, with such lighting as may be requisite and any other facilities or
works which the Company may consider necessary and for such pui-poses to use
free of all payments any stone, sand, gravel, gypsum, lime, clay or similar materials
or water which may be available provided always that the inhabitants of the State
are not prevented from taking their usual requirements of these materials and that
the water supply of the local inhabitants and nomad population who may be
dependent on the same is not endangered. The Company at its discretion may
select the position of any such works. The Company may likewise instal and
operate without hindrance all such means of transportation by land, air and water
as may be necessary for the effective conduct of its operations hereunder provided
it is for the purposes of this Agreement.
(b) The Company shall under normal conditions accept and transmit free of
charge on its wireless and telegraph installations such of the Shaikh’s messages as
will not interfere with the Company’s business, and in times of national emergency
the Shaikh shall have the necessary use free of charge of the Company’s wireless
and telegraph installations and railways for governmental purposes.
(c) The Shaikh’s ships shall have the right to use harbours utilised or
constructed by the Company provided that such use in no way hampers the
Company or interferes in any way with the safety of its operations of which
the Company shall be the sole judge. Any wharves or appurtenances constructed
by the Company shall be for its exclusive use. The Company may use for the
purpose of its operations the harbours along the coast of the State, but the Company
shall not impede or interfere with the subjects of the Shaikh or their right to
continue the use of existing harbours, anchorages, wharves and docks along the
coast of the State at present utilised by them for their sailing cral't and fishing-
boats.
Article 12. The Company shall have the right and be given the necessary
facilities—
(а) for the import of the substances into the State from any adjoining-
territory by pipe-lines or otherwise for the purpose of operating any refinery
which the Company may decide to erect within the State ; and
(б) for the transport of the substances by pipe-lines or otherwise over and
across the State from and to any adjoining territory to any point suitable for
the refining or shipping of the substances.
And no duties, taxes, charges or dues of any nature whatsoever shall be levied
in respect of such import or transport
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The file concerns the preparation and signing of two agreements relating to the Debai [Dubai] oil concession:
- Political agreement between HM Government and Petroleum Concessions Limited, and its subsidiary company, 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, setting out the terms in the event of the Company obtaining a concession from the Shaikh of Dubai
- Refinery agreement between HM Government and Petroleum Concessions Limited (and its subsidiary companies) relating to the refining of crude oil, setting out the terms for the erection of a refinery or refineries on the Arab side of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
The papers include: comments by various British Government departments (including the Admiralty, Air Ministry, Petroleum Department and the Foreign Office); drafts of the agreements; correspondence from Petroleum Concessions Limited (PCL); correspondence concerning the insertion of a pre-emption clause in the political agreement setting out the British Government's right of pre-emption of all crude oil obtained under the concession in the event of a state of national emergency or war; signed copies of the two agreements, dated 5 February 1937 (folios 20-23); and 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. confidential print entitled 'Dubai Oil Concession and Connected Documents', containing copies of the political agreement, the commercial agreement between the Shaikh of Dubai and Petroleum Concessions Limited, dated 22 May 1937, and related correspondence.
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 (183 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 184; 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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