"ملف ١/٥ I الرسوبيات النفطية والمعدنية في أراضي الكويت: عمليات المسح" [و‎‎١‎٠‎١] (٢١٦/٢٠١)

Ar regards Bahrain. I think it in in the interest
of Governrent that the /.P.O.C., as an all British Gcvt.
controlled institution, should have exclusive oil rights
there. It would ho;.'ever be preferable that rights should
be acquired and work if any should be undertaken by t
special company under some such title as the "Bahrain
Oil Company" as were work to be undertaken or rights
aenuir^d ^y the • ,0.0, it ^i.^ht be art excuse ^or revival
of Persian claims on Bahrain.
The position as regards Toveit, v/here I understand
that recent investigations have "iven promise of good
results, is not quite the same.
If the status of the Shaikh of Xoweit vis a vis the
future British Administration of these Territories is to
be mutatis mutandis analogous to that agreed to before the
war and embodied in the draft Ahglo Turki sh Convention,
then it is open to question whether the Shaikh has power
to grant oil rights for his exclusive f*nancial benefit.
It may be better for such rights to he granted by H.I ,G.
after the war, to a selected institution on suitable terms,
with the consent of th<° Shaikh, on t.o-prna to h© arranged
with him by us.
• oreover it nay be convenient that oil ri ;ht? in
not dealt with piece weal.
If it is desired by the Admiralty urgent that
borings should be w at got it at once I thin] the work
should be taken at t'ie expense of and on behalf of f is
Administration or of the Imperi . '
it open to H. * o Govt, to deal wit 1 ' 1 owe it oil rinhtr
simultaneously with ’hose of the Occupied Territories.
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