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'File 82/27 III (F 84) APOC: Qatar Oil' [‎245r] (495/638)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (319 folios). It was created in 22 Feb 1934-30 Apr 1934. 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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and that the Agreements were ultra vires under the I.P.C,
Oil Agreement; on the other hand if the Hoyel Dutch Shell
viere brought in no?/ as a party to the Agreements, the I .P.C.
oould not:,, legitimately object to Agreements made by two of
its constituents or to the concession being worked by the
a ..P .0, C . and the Hoyal Dutch Shell if the I.P.C. decided
not to take up the concession. Mr, Agnew explained that
even two constituent groups of the I.P.C. were not allowed
to negotiate for a concession within the Red Line without
the approval of the I .l .C. Board wniCii, in chis c■ ^^^, ^ne
& p.Q.C. had already obtained, the question having been
discussed informally with the I .i .C. at group meetings.
It had been left to the A.P.O.C. to get a concession in
this area and the A.P.O.C. exploration licence in Q£tar
was held on behalf of the I.P.C. The A.P.O.C. had been
afraid that if none of the other constitaenus of i-ho
agreed to come in they might be left with a concession on
their hands which, under the terms ei une Oil Agiocme^t,
they would be unable to woife themselves without the
participation of some other constituent group.
Royal Dutch Shell had accordingly agreed to participate
with the A .P .O.C. in working any concession tndt ..agh* be
obtained and the French group had said that anything which
. _ ^ onr t the Royal Dutch Shell
proved acceptable to ^nc • ■
Tr a thought, therel ore,
would be acceptable to them. —-—
a -p n n rroup would be
that the formation of a Shell i>-.^ •
• , .... th ic. Sta -e since it would appear
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te the other constituents 0.^
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in view of this explanation tne meecin^
- iv T-th-r informal nature of the present
m spite 01 the ratiier 111-•
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arrangements between the .a,
, _ . ^,,4. 4-> !e Agreements should
be preferable on the who_..-- ^ 1--
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The volume contains correspondence and notes of meetings 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, the 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. in London and ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī, Shaikh of Qatar, the Foreign Office, the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) and H.M.'s Ministry at Jedda in regard to the southern borders of Qatar, the Qatar oil concession and the relations of the Shaikhdom with the King of Saudi Arabia, ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Sa‘ūd). There are documents in Arabic, mainly letters to and from the Sheikh of Qatar. Some of the documents in the volume are marked as confidential.

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1 volume (319 folios)
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The documents in the volume are arranged in chronological order. There are notes at the end of the volume (folios 305-311). The notes refer to documents within the volume; they give a brief description of the correspondence with a reference number in blue or red crayon or ink, which refers back to that correspondence in the volume.

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The main foliation is in pencil in circled numbers, in the top right of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. The numbering starts starts on the first folio of writing with 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D; and runs through to 312, which is the last number given on the last folio of the volume. There is a blank page at the beginning and three at the end of the volume.There is also another sequence, which is incomplete, written in pencil, in the top right corner, starting with 39 on folio 37 and ending with 299 on folio 312.

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