'File 5/1 IV Kuwait Oil Company' [‎39r] (82/604)

Anglo -.rersian uil Company xiiinited,
jsritiBinic nouee,
Finsbury Circus,
London, ii.C. 2 .
25th August 193i*
The Director,
±'etroleum department,
^Mines department;,
dean Stanley street,
Millbank, s.w.l.
Sir,
we have the honour to refer to the correspondence
ending with Mr starling’s letter of the 20th January,
.p.d.98, and to state for your confidential information
that the results of recent test borings on the Persian coast
South of dushire give us some reason to thin^ that the pros-
-pacts of the existence of petroleum in Kuwait territory
are perhaps somewhat less remote than have hitherto appear-
*
ed to be the case. m these circumstances we shoulo be
prepared, subject to the approval of the sheilch of Kuwait
and the concurrence of ii.M's Government, to send a small
party of geologists ;o ^oweit in autumn to make a thorough
examination of the surface geology.
We anticipate that a reconnaissance on the above
lines would take several months and we assume that the
Shaikh of iiuwait would be prepared to give us every facility
in the matter without requiring any payment from us other
than out-of-pocket expenses incurred.
if your department is prepared to support these
proposals we shall be glad to receive a very early in
timation of the decision reached by the departments
concerned in order to enable us to lay our plans according-
-ly.
we have etc.,
sd/- A.C.Jiearn.
JTor Anglo - rersian Uil Company idraitecu
26.8.51