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Coll 30/138 'Oil: Debai Political Agreement and Refinery Agreement.' [54r] (107/369)
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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Minute Paper
political Department
Please see P.Z .12 on which it was approved
that Petroleum Concessions Ltd. (which is the Iraq
Petroleum Company without the Iraqi Chairman) should he
allowed to negotiate for oil concessions on the Trucial
Coast,in the Koweit Neutral Zone and in Muscat, on the
basis of the draft concessions on which the Company
prepoopcl to base their negotiatiemis which were forwarded
with Mr. Skliros ’ s letter of the 10th Pcoombcr 1035,
No.P.Z. jS'y /?•(> .
2. The first Sheikh with whom the Company have
negotiated for an oil concession is the Sheikh of Lebai. .
(ijkik 4a,/UmmI a (hfaiXtu*! ra/ti)
Major Holmes, who is acting for P.C.L./, spent some time
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in negotiation with the Sheikh, at the
beginning of September. He managed to reach a satisfactory
conclusion and the draft concession was initialled with
K
only a few alterations from the original draft. The only two
changes of real importance were in the royalty clause
(which of course was a series of blanks in the original
draft concession) and in clause 10, in which the Sheikh
added a provision about the treatment of the Company 1 s
employees w r ho might get into trouble in the State. The
draft concession in its final form is in the envelope
flagged A. All the alterations from the original draft
are side-lined in red pencil.
3. The changes were gone through with Colonel Fowle,
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.
, when he was in the office on
deputation in September, and were discussed with the
r\
Company. On Colonel Fowle’s advice certain further
alterations were made in Articles 9 and 10, to safeguard
the rights of H.M.G. , and alterations were also made in
the royalty Article 5 on the advice of the Petroleum
Department, who pointed out that in its form as amended
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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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- IOR/L/PS/12/3872
- Title
- Coll 30/138 'Oil: Debai Political Agreement and Refinery Agreement.'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:4v, 11v:15v, 17r:19v, 24r:24v, 26r:31v, 33r:59v, 67r:77v, 79r:80v, 90r:90v, 98r:104v, 107v, 108v, 111r, 112r:131v, 134r:151v, 154r:165v, 167r:184v, back
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