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Coll 30/164 'Oil: Oil Concesssions on the Trucial Coast:- Kalba.' [93r] (188/244)
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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TELEPHONE : NATIONAL 3582
TELEGRAMS :
INLAND : PETCONCESS, FINSQUARE, LONDON
FOREIGN : PETCONCESS, LONDON
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BENTLEY’S SECOND PHRASE
BENTLEY'S COMPLETE PHRASE WITH OIL SUPPLEMENT
LOMBARD
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PETROLEUM DEVELOPMEIfT iTRUCIAL COAST) LIMITED
DIRECTORS :
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■ E.G. Legh-Jones
R. C*, ^.O., D.S.C. (French)
W. Fraser, _.B.E.
C. S. Gulbenkian (formerly Armenian)
). B. A. Kessler (Dutch)
WMVMPVPMvpM L. M. Lefroy.
J. A. Meny (French)
H. G. Seidel (U.5.A.)
R. W. Sellers
J. Skliros
Lord Cadman,
G.C.M.G.
[Knight] Grand Cross of [the Order of] St Michael and St George (accolade).
(Chairman).
PC.28/145.
CITY-GATE HOUSE
FINSBURY SQUARE
LONDON • E.C.2
30th December, 1938.
Dear Mr. Gibson,
I enclose, for the information of the
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.
, a
copy of an Agreement executed on the 20th December, "whereby
the Regent of Kalbah has granted to P.D. (
Trucial Coast
A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
) Ltd.
an oil concession for a period of 75 years from the date of
signature. The official payment on first signature, and
the payments to be made on and after the discovery of com
mercial oil, are the same as those provided in the Dubai and
Sharjah concessions, but the annual sum payable as from a
year hence will be Rs.24,000 instead of Rs.30,000 at Dubai
and Rs.40,000 at Sharjah. The Agreement is somewhat simpler
than previous Agreements, certain unessential matter having
been omitted.
Longrigg writes
"Article 4 is new, and emphasises that the Shaikh
is a man of outstanding personality, and likely to be
of real value to the Company in its future efforts to
obtain access to difficult areas. He is the oldest,
and the most personally influential, of the Juwasim
rulers, although his own territory is small. It
extends from the boundary between the Muscat terri
tories (at Murair) and the Shumailiyah, to a point
near Dibah at the north end of the Shumailiyah,
omitting certain villages which have an independent
status. He claims to be paramount over a good part
of the mountain country behind that coast, and to be
able to influence tribes well outside his own country.
The village of Dhaid is his."
Yours sincerely.
J.P. Gibson Esq.,
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.
,
Whitehall, S.W. 1.
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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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- 6r:6v, 10r:10v, 14r:14v, 87r:87v, 93r:93v, 103r:103v
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