مجموعة ٦/٧٩ "النفط: امتيازات النفط جنوب شرق السعودية (الربع الخالي)." [و‎‎٥] (٨٠/٩)

the urst of the two end maps, from which it would aopear that
the Pahana proper ends somewhere - perhaps a considerable
distance - to the north of Mr. Philby's 1932 route. it is true
that the Hum ail ah through which Mr. Philby passed is described
by him at page 344 as ''generally regarded as a southerly
continuation of the Pahna" and on the map as ''sand tract similar
to Pahna", but it is clear from his words that it .is not called
Dahna (Pahana) and both the statement at page 344 and the map
indicate that there is a gap between the Pahana and the Rumailah.
"has it is possible that there is a considerable portion of the
area desires by the Iraq Petroleum Company (i.e. any area in
Saudi Arabia lying east of longitude 48 east and not already
covered by a concession granted to some other company^ which
lies between the southern boundary of the California Arabian
Standard Oil Company concession and the Violet Line - still more
the Violet Line as modified by the latest offer of His Majesty's
Government»
3. Sven if the contention set forth in paragraph 2 above
is correct I would not suggest that the Trap Petroleum Company
should be encouraged to apply for the unallotted area. On the
contrary, I agree that such an application at this moment would
increase Ibn Sand's desire to secure a larger share in the Huba’
al rhal1 than it suits His Majesty’s Government to concede to
him and pernaps complicate the issue by inspiring him with the
suspicion that His Majesty's Government have been biassed all
along by the belief that there might be oil in the area in
disrute.
? 4 - AC00rding t0 the isst paragraph of Mr. Rendel's note
f October 20th (foreign Office despatch Ho. 302 dated October
22nd1 ’ Hr ’ LOngrigg Proses to push on with the concessions over
Abu Dhabi, Muscat and the Aden Protectorate. it is assumed
that if any such concession is obtained before a frontier
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agreement