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Coll 30/138 'Oil: Debai Political Agreement and Refinery Agreement.' [8r] (15/369)
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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Article 13. (a) J he Company shall have free of cost the unrestricted use and
occupation of and surface rights over all uncultivated lands of the State which
the Company may need for the purpose of its operations and in particular
the Company shall have the right to select an area or areas of land chosen by the
Company with exclusive surface rights upon which to erect drilling rigs, pump
stations, oil rehneries, storage, terminal shipping and aircraft facilities and any
other works required for the Company’s operations; and the Company may lease
for such purposes any lands, houses or buildings with the consent of and on
conditions to be arranged with the proprietors thereof, but the terms of such lease
shall not be in excess of those ordinarily current in their respective localities.
(6) The Company shall acquire only such lands, houses and buildings as are
necessary for its operations under this Agreement. The Company shall inform the
Shaikh from time to time of the laud, houses and buildings which it requires to
occupy for its operations; and land, houses and buildings previously acquired by
the Company from the Shaikh but found no longer necessary for its operations shall
be returned by the Company to the Shaikh free of cost.
Article 14.—(a) The Company shall have the right to purchase at current market
rates fuel, water, food, building and constructional materials and other supplies of
■every kind in connection with its operations hereunder; further the Shaikh grants
to the Company the right to construct new roads for motor and general traffic, and
to make use of all existing roads or tracks free of charge or taxes of any kind
whatever.
(6) The Company shall employ subjects of the Shaikh as far as possible for all
work for which they are suited under the supervision of the Company’s skilled
employees, but if the local supply of labour should in the judgment of the Company
be inadequate or unsuitable the Company shall have the right to import labour,
preference being given to labourers from neighbouring Arab countries who will
obey the local laws. The Company shall also have the right to import skilled and
technical employees. The Company shall pay to the workmen it employs a fair
wage, such wage to be decided and stated by the Company at the time the workmen
are engaged.
Further, the fact of the Company employing subjects of the Shaikh shall not in
any way whatever alter the status of such employees in respect of their rights,
privileges and duties as subjects of the Shaikh, and such employees will remain in
all ways subject to the jurisdiction of the laws and under the legal authority of the
Shaikh in his capacity as the Ruler of the State of Dubai.
Article 15. The Shaikh shall give to the Company and its employees and
property all protection in his power from theft, highway robbery, assault, wilful
damage and destruction, and the Company may appoint in consultation with the
Shaikh and itself pay trustworthy guards who shall at all times be subjects of
the Shaikh unless the Shaikh permits otherwise to assist in protecting the property
of the Company and its employees. The Company shall erect at its own expense
suitable buildings for the accommodation of such guards at such places as the
Company shall decide.
Article 16. In measuring the substances for the purposes of royalty the factor
for conversion of the volume of oil into weight shall be such figure as may be
determined and agreed upon between the Shaikh and the Company after the
discovery of oil and the ascertainment of its specific gravity.
The Company shall measure the substances by a method customarily used in
good technical practice and the Shaikh by his representative duly authorised by
him shall have the right to observe such measuring and to examine and test what
ever appliances may be used for such measuring. Such representative shall comply
with all necessary and usual safeguards for the prevention of fire and other
accident; and shall make all examinations and tests at such times and in such
manner as will cause the minimum of interference with the Company’s operations.
If upon such examination or testing any such appliance shall be found to be out of
order the Company will cause the same to be put in order at its own expense within
a reasonable time, and if upon any such examination aforesaid any error shall
be discovered in any such appliance, such error shall if the Shaikh so decides
after hearing the Company’s explanation be considered to have existed for
three (3) calendar months previous to the discovery thereof or from the last occasion
of examining the same in case such occasion shall be within such period of three
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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)
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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 (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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