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Concessions in Bahrein [Bahrain], Kuwait, &c: correspondence, 1932-Jul 1933 (Colonial Office Secret Print, Middle East No.49) [‎73r] (147/284)

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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given in the Muscat and Bahrein leases, we should be providing the company with a
longer period within which to select the tracts they require to take up on mining lease
and the total area to be granted could then be much smaller. In addition, with the
provision of a longer period for exploration and prospecting, the period of the Mining
Lease could be reduced from 70 to 60 years, split up into 2 periods of 30 years, as
already suggested, and if this is to be done, it will be seen that by far the simplest
procedure, in view of all the objections, is to start with the material of the present
Bahrein agreement and modify it so as to take account of the various points brought out.
IV. Right of Pre-emption Clause.
25. I note that the Anglo-Persian Oil Company are again in the field and may
themselves be applicants for a concession. This would be welcomed ; but if eventually
a portion of Kuweit is granted to the Eastern and General Syndicate, Limited, in spite
of their entanglement with an American Company, it will evidently prove impossible,
in view of the Bahrein precedent, to include a British control paragraph. Nevertheless,
this should not preclude the addition of clauses providing the right of pre-emption and
possession in case of war. I noticed somewhere on the file the suggestion that if the
company were registered as a British company, this would automatically render possible
British control in case of war. Our previous experience in dealing with the Syndicate
shows that anything not specifically included will be difficult to claim later and I suggest
for consideration that though the Government is prepared to waive the British control
clause, they should insist on the explicit inclusion in the concession of a clause providing
right of pre-emption.
V. Chief Local Representative.
26 If a concession for a portion of Kuweit is eventually granted to the Eastern
and General Syndicate, Limited, and transfer is permitted to American interests on con
ditions similar to those arranged in the case of the Bahrein lease, providing for a shadowy
sort of British control with provision for a Chief Local Representative, I venture to
suggest that Government should object to Major Frank Holmes being Chief Local Repie-
sentative in Kuweit as well as in Bahrein. It has already been suggested in these papers
that it is impossible for him to carry out satisfactorily his duties as Chief Local Repre
sentative at Bahrein if he spends a considerable portion of the year elsewhere. This
provides sufficient reason for objecting to his holding the same post in Kuweit, and in
the event of the Government adopting this point of view, I suggest that provision should
be made for a Chief Local Representative who is a persona grata to the Government,
as in the case of the British Director of the Bahrein Petroleum Company.
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C. 98026/32 [No. 45A].
No. 139.
ANGLO-PERSIAN Oil. COMPANY, LIMITED, to COLONIAL OFFICE.
Britannic House, Finsbury Circus,
g IR London, E.C.2, 3rd May, 1932.
With reference to correspondence which has passed on this subject between
this Company and the Colonial Office and the Petroleum Department of the Board of
Trade I have the honour to inform you that our geologists have recently been m
Kuweit territory with the object of correlating the geological data available there with
thos A obtained by us in certain areas in Persia in which we are interested. Having
accomplished this specific task they have now been withdrawn and my Company is
now considering the whole question in the light of the data thus obtained. Meanwhile,
I have to place on record the fact that this Company is prepared at a convenient
juncture to open formal negotiations with the Shaikh of Kuweit, and is at present
considering on what basis this can most conveniently be done.
We have, &c.
(for Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Limited),
N. W. CLARK,
Secretary.

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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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