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IRAQ PETROLEUM COMPANY, LIMITED
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Telegrams:
Inland i PETRIRAQ. AVE, LONDON
Foreign: PETRIRAQ, LONDON
Change of Address :
214, OXFORD STREET,
LONDO>*r"W-l
LONDON, E.C.2
19th March, 1948
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My dear Donaldson,
No doubt you saw a copy of Felly’s letter to the Shaikh
of Qatar dated 23rd Decemb er^ 1947, No. C/1227, in which he described
the boundary line -which H.M.G. had laid down as between Bahrain and
Qatar. Mr. Felly communicated this to our Manager at Bahrain who
sent it to us, whom it greatly surprised. lie telegraphed to Bahrain
on 10th February to the effect that -
If now permitted, we comment that we have no objection
to principle of Median line based on general configuration
of coast lines of the two territories but regret violation
of this principle in order to give Hawar Islands and
Dibal and Jiradeh shoals to Bahrain to which they do not
geographically belong. If it be considered too late to
reconsider Hawar allocation there seems all the more
reason to allot the two shoals to Qatar.”
Since the despatch of that telegram our Geological Department
has further studied the question in the light of the interpretation
of a number of aerial photographs and our Chief Geologist comments as
follows
"From these studies it seems more obvious than before that
these shoal areas are a part of the Qatar peninsula. The
photographs show depositional reefs which conform to the
outline of the north west part of Qatar. These reefs
trend from north-south on the west side of Fasht al Dibal
to east-west in the northern part of the shoal, then
turning to a south east direction on the eastern side of
the shoal. In Jiradeh these depositional lines are more
or less concentric in shape. In both instances the
interpretation of the aerial photographs is that possible
geologic structure exists here. This is of course
subject to verification by geophysical mebhods, but the
possibility of structure is indicated. The position of
both these shoals lying to the east of the deep channel
between Mahuraq and Qatar strongly indicates further that
they are a part of the Qatar structure and probably lie
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