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Coll 30/138 'Oil: Debai Political Agreement and Refinery Agreement.' [35r] (69/369)
The record is made up of 1 file (183 folios). It was created in 2 Apr 1936-25 May 1937. 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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Minute Paper.
POLITICAL
Department.
Mr.Wa^on,
Replies have been received from the Admiralty and
Petroleum Department to our letter of the 2nd December,
P.Z. 7856/36. They concur.
The Foreign Office Eastern Department apparently
referred our letter to their Legal Adviser’s Department,
and Mr.Beckett produced 4 pages of notes (copy below).
The Foreign Office concurred some months ago in the
draft political agreement and referred the matter to their
Legal Department at the time. But Mr.Beckett was away.
Hence it is the first time he personally has seen it.
This explains the 11th hour comments, but it is hardly
an excuse for the Foreign Office to expect us to rewrite
the document at this stage!
As Major Holmes left London on Thursday and as we
are already committed up to the hilt to the Company, we
can hardly reopen the question of the wording of the
documents now.
I wrote an urgent letter on Thursday evening to
Mr.Rendel (copy below) which explains itself. In the
light of it Mr.Renael telephones that they are^prepared
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to concur and they recognize that the responsibility is
ours. They hope that Mr.Beckett’s points will be taken
into consideration when we come to drafting the next
Political Agreement.
As you will see, I think two of Mr.Beckett’s points
are good and can be met without dislocation of our plans,
ur*: | They might be put to the Resident, to whom we must now
^ telegraph on the lines indicated in our letter to the
Company of the 25th November, No.P.Z.8413/36.
I submit a draft telegram accordingly.
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The file concerns the preparation and signing of two agreements relating to the Debai [Dubai] oil concession:
- Political agreement between HM Government and Petroleum Concessions Limited, and its subsidiary company, 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, setting out the terms in the event of the Company obtaining a concession from the Shaikh of Dubai
- Refinery agreement between HM Government and Petroleum Concessions Limited (and its subsidiary companies) relating to the refining of crude oil, setting out the terms for the erection of a refinery or refineries on the Arab side of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
The papers include: comments by various British Government departments (including the Admiralty, Air Ministry, Petroleum Department and the Foreign Office); drafts of the agreements; correspondence from Petroleum Concessions Limited (PCL); correspondence concerning the insertion of a pre-emption clause in the political agreement setting out the British Government's right of pre-emption of all crude oil obtained under the concession in the event of a state of national emergency or war; signed copies of the two agreements, dated 5 February 1937 (folios 20-23); and 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. confidential print entitled 'Dubai Oil Concession and Connected Documents', containing copies of the political agreement, the commercial agreement between the Shaikh of Dubai and Petroleum Concessions Limited, dated 22 May 1937, and related correspondence.
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (183 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 184; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are 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. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- IOR/L/PS/12/3872
- Title
- Coll 30/138 'Oil: Debai Political Agreement and Refinery Agreement.'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:4v, 11v:15v, 17r:19v, 24r:24v, 26r:31v, 33r:59v, 67r:77v, 79r:80v, 90r:90v, 98r:104v, 107v, 108v, 111r, 112r:131v, 134r:151v, 154r:165v, 167r:184v, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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