'File 82/27 VIII F 91 QATAR OIL' [‎71r] (154/468)

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P.Z.6395/36. PSTR0LB0M DEPARTMB T,
(MIBXa DKPABWSIW), /"
DEAH STAffi.gr STR;3SI,
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4th Septairiber 1956» L
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Dear GltTason, '
/1th oforenpm to your latter to Giffard of the 21st
• ur'ust {J-•i;•6032/36) eoncemin-r the proposed transfer the
atar ConoeBBion o >. etroleum Development (Qatar) Ltd., ma
our telephone conversation on the subject, I nm write to ^
let you have oixr views on this question# ( f 5
i-etrole™ Development (\;atar) Ltd* wes ditl^r f^egistered
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on ■ 1st August hut so far the Chairman and Board of Directors
ha® not "been appointed and there is as yot no information
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evailahie as to who are the shareholding• ccording to
.bongrigg 1 s letter to "-alton of 15th ngust, Fetrole-.jm
Development Qatar) Ltd* will be a auheldiary company of
■0trole:H?i ConcettBions Ltd* 9 and we have been informed
unofficially hy the F#C«L* that the Chairman will be Sir
John Cadrnan and that he Board will he identical with the
F#-C* j * Board* In these eircumatance®, %m think no object ion
can be raised to the transfer of the Commercial Agreement
from the agio-Persian oil Company to Petroleum Develorrient
(Qat- r j Ltd« provided tiiat the latter co^ mny agree to enter
into an agreement with H• '-i•Govemnent assuming esponsibility
for carrying out all the provisions of the Qatar Political
. rreement wit: the a^ientoent ^estad in paragraph 3 of
Starling's letter of 30th July, ^•D«21(9). (F#D#{a*) Ltd*
would of course be oubst tuted for r*C»L* in that amendment.)
Althoi h it is the intention, that ..c»L* should
subacrltw? to the politico! agreements\in the ceee of the
Tmclal Shelkhdwne mABtihreln, I think t. nt an exception
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