Agreements made by Petroleum Concessions Limited with Shaikhs of Dubai and Sharjah, 1937, Umm-al-Qaiwan, 1945, and Ajman, 1951 [‎272r] (122/181)

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Further the Company shall instruct
Geologists to mark carefully and report to
the Company any area and its location
which appears to them to give promise of
yielding minerals or fresh water from a
bore-hole and the Company undertakes to
keep the Shaikh informed of all such
minerals and water reports and the sites
of the area or areas.
ARTICLE 21. The Shaikh hereby
agrees that the Company may transfer the
obligations and benefits of this Agreement
to a British Company to be called "Petroleum
Development ( Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. ) Limited " or
to any other Company registered within the
British Empire.
ARTICLE 22. Failure on the part of
the Company to fulfil any of the conditions
of this Agreement shall not give the
Shaikh any claim against the Company or be
deemed a breach of this Agreement in so
far as such failure arises from force
majeure, and if through force majeure the
fulfilment by the Company of any of the
conditions of this Agreement be delayed
the period of such delay shall be added to
the periods fixed by this Agreement.
Force majeure as used in this Ag
reement includes the Act of God, war,
insurrection, riot, civil commotion, tide,
storm, tidal wave, flood, lightning, explosion,
fire, earthquakes and any other happening
which the Company could not reasonably
prevent or control.
ARTICLE 23. The Shaikh shall not
by general or special legislation or by
administrative measures or by any other
act whatever annul this Agreement except
as provided in Article 19.
No alteration shall be made in the
terms of this Agreement by either the
Shaikh or the Company except in the event
of the Shaikh and the Company jointly
agreeing that it is desirable in the interests
of both parties to make certain alterations
deletions or additions to this Agreement.
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