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Coll 6/34 'Yemen: Oil and Mining Concessions in. Messrs Mitchell and Boucher. Activities of Mr E.R. Bailey. Petroleum Concessions Ltd: Survey of Kamaran.' [‎20r] (40/156)

The record is made up of 1 file (76 folios). It was created in 26 Jul 1932-23 Apr 1937. It was written in English. 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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(E 4590/260/91)
Confidential
FOREIGN OFFICE, S.W.l.
28th August, 1956.
Dear Cowell
Will you please refer to Starling’s letter
No: 236/16 of 18th July to you and connected
correspondence ahout the attitude to he adopted to
the proposal of Petroleum Concessions Limited to
apply for an oil concession in the Yemen.
2. We have been recently reconsidering the
attitude to he adopted towards Petroleum Concessions
Limited in their quest for oil concessions in the
Red Sea area in the light of growing evidence of
Italian designs and aims in that region. As a
result we are wondering whether as regards the Yemen
our attitude towards Petroleum Concessions Limited
may not perhaps have heen hitherto a little too
rigid, particularly as when they were seeking a
concession in Saudi Arabia we went so far as to assure
the Saudi Arabian Government that His Majesty’s
Government fully supported them. We cannot of course
identify ourselves with any particular company to the
prejudice of other British or quasi-British concerns
or press the Imam to grant a concession to any
particular company. Nor can we well take part in the
actual negotiations for the concession. Furthermore,
the absence of direct diplomatic representation in
the Yemen makes it difficult to extend to the Company
the ordinary facilities which we should extend, in a
normal
H
R
COWELL, ESQ., C.M.G.

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This file largely consists of copies of Colonial Office and Foreign Office correspondence relating to oil and mining concessions in Yemen. Matters discussed in the correspondence include the following:

The file's principal correspondents are the following: Bernard Rawdon Reilly as 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 Aden, and later, Governor of Aden; the Secretary of State for the Colonies; Petroleum Concessions Limited; the Imam of Yemen; officials of the Colonial Office, the Foreign Office and the Admiralty.

The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.

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1 file (76 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 77; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located 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. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

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Coll 6/34 'Yemen: Oil and Mining Concessions in. Messrs Mitchell and Boucher. Activities of Mr E.R. Bailey. Petroleum Concessions Ltd: Survey of Kamaran.' [‎20r] (40/156), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/12/2100, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100035847847.0x00002b> [accessed 29 March 2024]

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