'File 82/27 VIII F 91 QATAR OIL' [32v] (73/468)
The record is made up of 1 volume (230 folios). It was created in 24 Jul 1935-15 May 1937. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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to tlie Company in virtue of this Agreement, and it must bear all the engagements
and responsibilities set forth therein.
Article Thirteenth—The Company may terminate this Agreement if it finds it
•disagreeable for it to act upon the same ; but it shall have no right to cancel it or to
abandon it and to discontinue operating it except after three years with eliect from
the beginning of operation, by giving six months previous notice, m writing, to theQ
Shaikh of its intention to do so. And if the said cancellation should take place within
thirty-five years from the date of signature of this Agreement, all the lands granted
by the Shaikh and any lands or buildings purchased by the Company and any houses
or buildings constructed by, and any immovea ble properties belonging to, the Company
within the State of Qatr shall be surrendered to the Shaikh free of charge. And the
wells actually producing at the time of the said cancellation shall be surrendered in
a condition considered to be good and satisfactory, as they were at that time. I
And if the said cancellation should take place after thirty-five years from the
date ot signature of this Agreement, all the Company s properties within the State
of Qatr shall be surrendered, in that case, to the Shaikh, free of charge ; and the
wells actually producing at the time of the said cancellation shall be sm rendered
in a condition which is reasonably considered good and satisfactory, as they were
at that time. i • p £
On the termination of this Agreement at the conclusion of the seventy-nve years,
stipulated for in the Second Article, or the conclusion of any^extension or renewal
of its period all the Company's properties existing in the State of Qatr shall be
surrendered to the Shaikh free of charge ; and the wells actually producing at that
time shall be surrendered in a condition which is reasonably considered good and
satisfactory, as they used to be at that time.
Article Fourteenth—The Shaikh has the right to cancel this Agreement in the
two cases mentioned below : —
(A) If the Company fails to pay the sums mentioned in the Fourth Article
within six months from the date they fall due. Provided that if any dispute
should be made by the Company in regard to any payment thereof, the
Shaikh shall not cancel the Agreement until arbitration takes place thereon
in accordance with Article Sixteenth, and unless the Company fails to
comply with the award of the arbitrators within three months from the
date of the said award.
(B) If the Company is in default according to the provisions for arbitration set
forth in the Sixteenth Article.
Article Fifteenth.—The Shaikh shall not hold the Company liable if default
should occur on the part of the Company in carrying out or fulfilling the provisions
of the Agreement by the mere occurrence of force majeure delaying operation; but
should any difference occur between His Excellency the Shaikh and the Company
as to the existence or non-existence of such force majeure, the same shall be
referred to arbitration, as provided for in the Sixteenth Article. And the {Shaikh
stipulates that the force majeure delaying operation means that which occurs m
connection with the Company's operations in Qatr and that nothing else must be
taken into consideration and must not be used by the Company as an argument in
this respect. And the Company shall proceed to effect repairs at the time when any
damage, of any nature, takes place, and the period of the said delay, together with
any period reasonably necessary for repairing the damage will be added to the
period fixed in accordance with this Agreement.
Article Sixteenth. —Should any dispute occur between the Shaikh and the
Company in regard to the interpretation of this Agreement or of any matter arising
therefrom or in regard to the engagements obligatoiy on either of the parties m
accordance therewith, such dispute shall be referred to two arbitrators if no
agreement can be arrived at for settling it by any other method, and the Shaikh
will appoint one of them, and the other will be appointed by the Company. Each
of the two parties shall appoint his arbitrator within thirty days after receiving the
demand therefor from the other party. The two arbitrators shall thereupon appoint
a third arbitrator, but if the two arbitrators or any two arbitrators appointed instead
of them are unable to agree upon the third arbitrator within sixty days from the
demand for arbitration, the two parties agree that, in that case, the third arbitrator
should be appointed by 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.
; and the Shaikh makes it a condition
that he should agree to the third arbitrator.
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The volume contains correspondence and telegrams between the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Bahrain 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. at Bushire, Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) representatives and ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī, Sheikh of Qatar, in regard to the oil concession and the beginning of the oil exploration in Qatar. The volume includes: Programme of operations in Qatar from November 1936 to May 1937 (folios 110-118) and 'General and brief note on the water drilling operations of Petroleum Concessions Limited in Qatar' (folios 209-212).
There are some letters in Arabic, to and from the Sheikh of Qatar.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (230 folios)
- Arrangement
The documents in the volume are mostly arranged in chronological order. There are notes at the end of the volume, (folios 215-221). The file notes are arranged chronologically and refer to documents within the file; they give a brief description of the correspondence with reference numbers in red crayon, which refer back to that correspondence in the volume.
There is also an brief index at the beginning (f. 2) indicating the main topics covered in the volume.
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The main foliation is written in pencil, circled, and can be found 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. The numbering commences at the title page with 1, then 2-37; 38 and 38A; 39-55; 56 and 56A; 57-198; 199 and 199A; 200 and 200A; 201-217; 218 and 218A and it carries on until 225, which is the last number given to the back cover. There is also a second foliation sequence, incomplete.
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- 'File 82/27 VIII F 91 QATAR OIL'
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- 31r:33r
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- Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Limited (xx Anglo-Persian)
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