'File 5/1 IX Kuwait Oil Company' [‎42r] (88/406)

any and all such petroleum and the right to do all things
necessary ior the purposes or those operations. The Company
under tabes however that it will not carry on -any of its
operations within areas occupied "by or devoted to the purposes
of mosques sacred buildings or graveyards or carry on any of
its operations except the sale of petroleum housing of staff and
employees and administrative worn within the present town wall
of Kuwait.
The period of this Agreement shall be 75 years
from the date of signature.
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(A) Within nine months from the date of signature
of this Agreement the Company shall commence geological
exploration.
(B) The Company shall drill for petroleum to
the following total aggregate depths and within the following
periods of time at such and so many places as the Company may
decide: -
(i) 4,000 feet prior to the 4th anniversary
of the date of signature of this Agreement.
(ii) 12,000 feet prior to the 1 Oth anniversary
of the date of signature of this Agreement,
(iii) 50,000 feet prior to the 20th anniversary
of the date of signature of this Agreement.,
(G) The Company shall conduct its operations in
a workmanlike manner and by appropriate scientific methods and
shall take all reasonable measures to prevent the ingress of
water to any petroleum-bearing strata-and shall duly close any
unproductive holes drilled by it and subsequently abandoned.
Article 5 .
In consideration of the rights granted by the
Shaikh to the Company by this Agreement and of the assistance