"الملف 38/3 II شركة امتيازات النفط المحدودة: امتياز قطر" [و‎‎١‎٣‎٨] (٣٣٦/٢٧٥)

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38/3, 38/6- 11/5 & 11/20
No- 696. ■ 214, -.Oxford Street
Oxford Circus,
London, 1.1.
£6t^ Ar^ust, 1949.
Dear Rogers,
I refer to our telephone conversation of this morning.
Ly D.O. letter d-ted 18th April, 1948 to Burrows referred to our
Field operations in the southern nart of Qatar and indicated th r, t
we have physically demarked our Concession Boundary, have sur
veyed in detail up to that Boundary - at least over its western
half - and have run a gypsum quarry at the southern end of
Jelel Nakhsh: none of these operations have ever been objected
to. .‘ve have never operated, in any way, south of our Concession
Bioundary.
Southwards and eastwards from the south-east corner
•of Qatar into Abu DBabi territory we have carried out only light
and rapid field surveys: no objection was ev^-r raised against
the$Q. Further east the same applies, I believe, to the Sabkhat
f/utti, but east of that, we have carried out detailed geophysical
survey along the coast and to a certain distance inland - t be-
lieve as far south as Badiya* (We have never operated in 'the,
Liwa area,.although there appears no doubt that this owes alle
giance to the Shaikh of Abu Dhabi.) Further east again, we
have at various imes surveyed and 'travelled in all parts of the
coastal belt in addition to isolated joubneys inland and aerial
survey covering a considerable inland area; this would cover the
whole triangle Muscat - Abu Dhabi - Ra^ Musandam. *e have
had representatives in Baraimi for months on end-, have explored
Jebel Hafit in some detail and conducted more rapid survey south
of that. Our aerial surveys have covered most of the western
foot-hill areas of t■ e main Oman mountains,
I appreciate thiat this information is, to some extent,
vague, but ,it seems to represent the facts. Tt is correct
to say that we h^ve n'ever come into contact •with ary representa
tives of h.; . King Ibn Sa’ud.
Yours sincerely,
Sgd. Illegible.
T. Rogers, r sq., i
Eastern Department,
Foreign Office,
Whitehall,
London, S.$.1.