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Coll 30/164 'Oil: Oil Concesssions on the Trucial Coast:- Kalba.' [8r] (16/244)
The record is made up of 1 file (119 folios). It was created in 30 Apr 1938-17 Jul 1940. 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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&
THIS
AGREE ME NT dated the eleventh day of
April One thousand nine
hundred and forty is made BETWEEN HIS MAJESTY’S GOVERNMENT IN
THE UNITED KINGDOM (hereinafter called u His Majesty’s Government”) of the
one part and 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 (hereinafter
called ”the Company” which expression shall where the context so admits
be deemed to include its successors and/or assignees and shall also be
deemed to include any subsidiary Company) of the other part.
WHEREAS the Company has obtained a concession from Sheikh
Rhalid, Regent of Kalba (hereinafter called "the Sheikh”) on the terms and
conditions more particularly set out in an agreement dated the Twentieth
December, One thousand nine hundred and thirty eight (as modified and
explained by an exchange of letters between the parties, dated the Twenty
ninth and Thirty first December, One thousand nine hundred and thirty
eight, respectively)
AND WHEREAS certain responsibilities thereby devolve on His
Majesty’s Government, the Company has agreed with His Majesty’s Government
as follows
THE Company shall be and remain a British company registered in Great
Britain and having its principal place of business in Great Britain, and
its Chairman shall at all times be a British subject.
THE Agreement between the Company and the Sheikh shall not be
transferred to any other company without the prior consent in writing of
His Majesty’s Government, and any other company to which that agreement
may be transferred shall be and remain a British company registered in
Great Britain and having its principal place of business in Great Britain,
and its Chairman shall at all times be a British subject-
THE employees of the Company in Kalba shall at all times be British
subjects or subjects of the Sheikh, provided that, with the consent of His
Majesty’s Government, such persons of other nationality as are required
for the efficient carrying on of the undertaking may be employed.
NOTWITHSTANDING anything contained in the Agreement between the
Company and the Sheikh, the importation of foreign native labour shall be
subject to the approval of 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.
in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
.
THE Company in all except unimportant or routine matters shall deal
with the Kalba Authorities through a Chief Local Representative in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, who shall be a British subject. The approval of His
Majesty’s Government shall be required for the person so designated. He
will be ordinarily resident in Kalba or Bahrein or at some point on the
Trucial Coast
A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
and will be responsible for the Company’s local relations
with the Kalba Authorities, which shall, except in routine or unimportant
matters, be conducted through the political representative of His
Majesty’s Government in Bahrein or through any other person whom 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.
in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
may from time to time designate.
SUBJECT to the terms of the Agreement between the Company and the
Sheikh the Company undertakes at all times to pay due deference to the
wishes of the Sheikh and to tho advice of 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.
in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
and of the Political Officers subordinate to him.
NOTWITHSTANDING anything contained in the Agreement between the
Company and the Sheikh the Company shall not have the right to use or
occupy, and shall not include in the areas to be acquired or utilised for
the purposes of its operations, any sites which may have been selected by
or on behalf of the Sheikh or His Majesty's Government for defence
purposes, for aerodromes* aeroplane or seaplane bases or for wireless and
telegraph installations or in connection with the development of harbours,
provided that with the consent of His Majesty's Government which shall not
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The file concerns the signing of the Kalba oil concession. The concession consisted of the commercial agreement between Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmad bin Sultan [Khālid bin Aḥmad bin Sulṭān Āl Qasimī], Regent of Kalba, and 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, signed on 20 December 1938 (copy folios 94-102); and the political agreement between HM Government and 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, signed on 11 April 1940 (signed copy folios 12-13).
The papers cover: correspondence from 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 its parent company, Petroleum Concessions Limited; information on political developments in Kalba; the progress of negotiations over the oil concession; the opinion of 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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. that it was Shaikh Khalid's ambition to reunite the whole of the Qawasim One of the ruling families of the United Arab Emirates; also used to refer to a confederation of seafaring Arabs led by the Qāsimī tribe from Ras al Khaima. territories under his own rule (folio 108); drafts of the political agreement; comments on the drafts by the Petroleum Department, the Foreign Office, and 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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; British Government approval for the signing of the oil concession; and British satisfaction that the income derived by the Regent of Kalba would be not be 'dissipated, or appropriated to his own use' (e.g. folio 18).
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 (119 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 120; 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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