مجموعة ٣٠ /١١٠(٢) "النفط: امتيازات النفط على الساحل المتصالح. مفاوضات مع الشيوخ. اتفاقية رأس الخيمة. أبوظبي." [و‎‎٢‎٧] (٩١٧/٥٣)

(o) Rupees Sixty thousand at the end of each year from the date of
signature hereof until the Company declares in writing to the
Shaikh that Substances have been discovered in commercial quantities
in accordance with the Sub-Clause (b) of this Article 5 or until
the Company commences Production from quantities less than
commercial quantities. In the event of such Production by the
Company from quantities less than commercial quantities either
Rupees Fifty thousand per year or Rupees 3 (three) per English
Ton of 2,240 lbs, in respect of the Substances so won and saved
shall be payable, whichever is the greater.
(d) At the end of every year from the date upon which the Company makes
in writing to the Shaikh the declaration that the Substances have
been discovered in commercial quantities Rupees Ninety thousand
or Rupees 3 (Three) per English ton of 2,240 lbs. in respect of
the Substances other than natural gas, won and saved during the o
preceding Calendar year, whichever is the greater.
(e) Annas 2 (two) per 1,000 cubic feet of natural gas produced and sold.
In calculating royalty for the purpose of this article account shall not
be taken of any of the substances us^d by the Company in its operations or
used by the Company^ employees within the State, necessary for their use, nor
of any water or foreign matter which may be produced with the Substances.
ARTICLE 6 . The Company shall not carry on any operations within areas
occupied by or devoted to the purposes of mosques, sacred buildings or
graveyards.
ARTICLE 7. The Company shall conduct its operations in a workmanlike
manner and by appropriate scientific methods and shall take all reasonable
measures to prevent the ingress of water to any petroleum-bearing strata and
shall duly close any unproductive holes drilled by it and subsequently
abandoned. The Company shall keep the Shaikh informed generally as to the
progress and result of its drilling operations but such information shall be
treated as confidential.
ARTICLE 8 . Within three months after the expiry of each calendar
year, the Company shall deliver to the Shaikh a statement of the amount of
the Substances won and saved and in the case of natural gas produced and
sold during the said calendar year, and of the royalty which is or might
have been payable under Article 5, together with a report of its operations
during the said year. The Shaikh or his representative shall have the right
to check such returns and statements, and all such returns and statements
and the reports of the Company^ operations shall be treated as confidential
by the Shaikh.
ARTICLE 9 (a) The Company shall have the right to import water, the
Substances, fuel, machinery, motor-cars and lorries, aircraft, equipment,
plant, timber, utensils, iron work, building materials, food supplies,
medicines, medical supplies, office equipment and household furniture, and
other materials, equipment and goods of whatsoever nature required by the
Company and its employees for the purpose of its operations hereunder and to
export the Substances and articles previously imported by the Company free
of customs or export duty and taxes or other charges, but it shall pay on all
personal goods, clothing and general merchandise imported by the Company for
the personal use of its employees or for resale to them the ordinary duty
in force for the time being in the State. Saving as in Article 5 and in this
Article provided, the Company, its personnel, its operations, income, profits
and property including the Substances shall be exempt and free during the
period of this Agreement from all present or future harbour duties, import
duties, export duties, taxes, imposts and charges of any kind vdiether State
or local, tolls and land surface rent of whatever nature.
In consideration of the right herein granted the Company shall pay - in
addition to the Royalty per ton of Rupees 3 as provided in Article 5 - to the
Shaikh within (3) three months after the close of each calendar year the sum
of (4) four annas per English ton of 2,240 lbs. in respect of the Substances
won and saved during the said calendar year.