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Concessions in Bahrein [Bahrain], Kuwait, &c: correspondence, 1932-Jul 1933 (Colonial Office Secret Print, Middle East No.49) [‎29r] (59/284)

The record is made up of 1 file (140 folios). It was created in 1932-Jul 1933. 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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C. 98035/32 [No. 92].
No. 44.
T he BAHREIN PETROLEUM COMPANY, LIMITED, to COLONIAL OFFICE.
[Answered hy No. 47.]
SiR, 19, Moorgate, London, E.0.2, 5th September, 1932.
I have to acknowledge receipt of Mr. J. E. W. Flood's letter addressed to me
under date the 30th August, 1932 *
This Company is quite ready to accede to Mr. Flood's suggestion of a further
modification of Clause IX of the second Schedule. It thinks, however, that the Clause
would be clearer if it read thus :—
The right to win up to 100 tons of oil free of payment and further quantities
of oil on payment of a royalty of Rs. 3:8:0 per ton of net crude oil got and
saved (i.e., after deducting water and foreign substances and oil required for the
customary operations of the Company's installations in the Shaikh's territories)."
Then would follow as a sub-clause a copy of the new Measurement Clause for
the Mining Lease.
I assume you would desire to retain the paragraph reading :—
The privileges in this Clause may only be enjoyed by the Company during
the period for which the prospecting licence or its extensions are granted or until
the Company declare that oil has been discovered in commercially exploitable
quantities, whichever is the shorter "?
If so, this would come on as a second sub-clause. This paragraph does not seem
to me to have now any particular meaning or significance, and I suggest it might be
dropped.
I should be glad to hear that the foregoing suggestions are acceptable to His
Majesty's Government.
I would not agree with Mr. Flood's interpretation of the existing Clause IX of the
second Schedule if the point came up for discussion.
I am, &c.,
H. R. BALLANTYNE.
0.98035/32 [No. 96].
No. 45.
, COLONIAL OFFICE to PETROLEUM DEPARTMENT.
[Answered hy No. 46.]
S ir , Downing Street, 27th September, 1932.
I am directed by Secretary Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister to refer to the letter from
this Office of the 30th of August, t on the subject of Bahrein Oil Concession at Bahrein,
and to transmit to you, to be laid before the Secretary for Mines, the enclosed copy
of an official letter}: from the Company together with a copy of the semi-official note*
to which it refers.
2. So far as this Department is concerned, the alteration suggested by the Com
pany, which takes the form of inserting the actual amount of royalty payable instead
of a reference to Clause VIII of the Mining Lease, appears to be unobjectionable, but
I am to request that the views of the Secretary for Mines may be obtained upon the
subject.
3. Copies of this letter are being forwarded to the Foreign Office, 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. ,
and Admiralty.
I am, &c.,
J. E. W. FLOOD.
* No. 40.
t No. 42.
+ No. 44.

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This file contains copies correspondence regarding the granting of oil concessions in Bahrain and Kuwait.

The correspondence is a mixture of internal correspondence between British officials (from 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. , Colonial Office, Foreign Office and the Petroleum Department) and correspondence between British officials and Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, the ruler of Bahrain and representatives from the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited, the Eastern and General Syndicate Limited and the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.

The file is divided up as follows:

Bahrein [Bahrain]

1. Indenture between Shaikh of Bahrein and the Eastern and General Syndicate, Limited, dated 12th June, 1930. Conditions governing assignment of Concession to Bahrein Petroleum Company.

2. Eastern and General Syndicate's application for a further Concession in Bahrein.

3. Landing Grounds and Seaplane Station.

4. Areas covered by Prospecting Licence granted to Bahrein Petroleum Company on 28th November, 1931.

5. Employment of British Subjects by the Bahrein Petroleum Company.

6. Extension of Prospecting Licence granted to Bahrein Petroleum Company on 28th November, 1931.

7. Chief Local Representative of the Bahrein Petroleum Company

Kuwait

1. Applications of the Eastern and General Syndicate, Limited, and the Anglo-Persian Oil Company for an Oil Concession.

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1 file (140 folios)
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The file is divided up into two thematic sections. The correspondence within these sections is arranged chronologically. A table of contents is contained on folios 2-13

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Condition: A printed pamphlet with bound pages.

Foliation: the foliation sequence is written in pencil, circled, and is 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.

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