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'Oil Concessions' [6r] (28/700)
The record is made up of 1 volume (345 folios). It was created in 12 Jan 1922-31 May 1927. 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
His Excellency,
The High Connissioner
B A G K D A D #
Dated 22nd December 1921
i have the honour to state that I have "been instructed,
by the Board of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company Limited to
open negotiations with the Sheikhs of Bahrain and Kuwait
with a view to concluding Agreements with thein in oornoo~
tion with Oil in their territories*
S« As you arc no^ doubt aware, it was provided under the
arrangements concluded in 1914 for a fusion of interests
in regard to Turkey of the D'Aroy Exploration Company ard
of the Turkish Petroleum Company that none of the partici
pants would interest themselves in concessions anywhere
in the Ottoman Empire otherwise than through the Turkish
Petroleum Company.
3# The Clause in question reads as follows:-
M 10« The three groups participating in the Turkish
"Petroleum Company shall give undertakings on their
^own behalf and on behalf of the Companies associated
with them not to be interested directly or indirect^
H in the production or manufacture of Crude Oil in the
fOttoman Empire in Rurope or Asia, except in that " i
part which is under the administration of the Egypt-I
"ian Government or of the Sheikh of Kuwait or in the
Transferred territories M on the Turko-Persian Fron
tier, otherwise than through the Turkish Petroleum
* Company".
4, You will note that the territories of the Sheikh of
Kuwait are specifically encluded.
5. The Board do not consider it necessary at this stage
to incur the considerable expense involved in registering a
new Subsidiary Company, and propose that negotiations should
be conducted on behalf of the D'Apcy Exploration Company.!
trust that this course will have your concurrence.
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This file contains correspondence between the British 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; the British 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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. at Bushire; Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah; ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Sa‘ūd); Khalīl bin Ibrāhīm Kanoo [Kānū]; Major Frank Holmes of the Eastern and General Syndicate Limited; and various representatives and employees of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, including Arnold Talbot Wilson, J B Mackie, J E Shuckburgh and T L Jacks.
The correspondence concerns the initiation of negotiations for oil concessions between the Shaikhs of Bahrain, Kuwait and Ibn Sa‘ūd, and the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and Eastern and General Syndicate Limited, as well as subsequent correspondence concerning exploration for oil. Within the correspondence are various draft and signed oil concessions documents, including a signed copy of the oil concession agreement in Arabic and English between Shaikh Ḥamad and Major Frank Holmes of Eastern and Syndicate Limited, dated 2 December 1925 (ff. 281-299).
Towards the end of the file there is correspondence concerning a dispute between Major Frank Holmes and Khalīl bin Ibrāhīm Kanoo relating to the rights for boring water wells in Bahrain vis-à-vis the 1925 oil concession agreement.
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- 1 volume (345 folios)
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This file is arranged approximately in chronological order.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the 3rd sheet and terminates at the sixth sheet from the back of the volume; these numbers are written in blue crayon with additions and corrections made using pencil, they are circled (except between ff. 199-270) 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 (except between ff. 286-299 where they can be found in the top centre).
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- IOR/R/15/2/96
- Title
- 'Oil Concessions'
- Pages
- 6r:14r, 32br, 33r:71v, 72ar:72bv, 163r:164v
- Author
- Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Limited (xx Anglo-Persian)
- Copyright
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