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Coll 30/87(2) Part II 'Qatar: Oil Concession - P.C.L.'s Operations.' [121v] (245/603)
The record is made up of 1 file (296 folios). It was created in 6 Jan 1945-13 Apr 1948. 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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may be partly or heavily submerged at high tide, such
as Dibal and Jar^jleh should have territorial waters.
This is clearly a point of some importance with
reference to the general continental shelf question,
and the present decision may form a precedent. On the
face of it it appears rather absurd that a state which, by
the erection of a cairn ^establishes the claim to a rock
in the sea, should thereby acquire jurisdiction over the
sea bed within radius of three nautical miles. Is
it possible under international law to apply the
condition that in order to have territorial waterman
island must be capable of continuous habitation.
4. Once we are all agreed how the lines should be
drawn the next question will be how the decision is to
be put before the auihoriti-eo concerned. In paragraph 12
of his letter of the 18th January, the Local Resident made
the following recomaendation:-
"I would suggest therefore that an announcement
should be made that pending a proper survey of the waters concerned,
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the line described/as the boundary so far as the
sea bed is concerned between Bahrain and Qatar and that to the
east of this line recognise^ the sovereignty of Bahrain
over the Hawar Island^ (excluding Jacadeh) and the Dibal and
Jarjideh shelves down the spring-'tide low water level only.
In the case of the Hawar islands^the sea-bed between them
inside a line drawn round the out^nost islands at low water
level will also be recognised as belonging to Bahrain and the
same principle will apply to the sea-bed between the Dibal
and Jar^deh elves. ” / The Local Resident add^i that the
announcement might in the first place be made in tentative
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form six months allowed for the raising of objections.
So far as the\^Iawar islands ^^oonoemed, ^ the Admiralty
view is accepted,^ the^fonaula proposed by the Political
Resident will need alt edition. The descript ion given in paragraph
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4 of Dodd$# let ter of 19th'May might perhaps be used \ if the
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Admiralty are satisfied thal\the chart on which the im^asm&^were
b&sed/
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The file concerns the operations of Petroleum Concessions Limited (PCL) (and its subsidiary Petroleum Development (Qatar) Limited) in Qatar. Of particular importance in the file is the issue of the division of the sea bed for drilling operations between PCL's concession, and that of the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO) in Bahrain.
The file contains discussion of the issue by the 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. , the Foreign Office, the Ministry of Fuel and Power, the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Bahrain.
The papers cover: the resumption of drilling operations in Qatar after their suspension during the Second World War; payment of royalties; the Hawar Islands; the granting of permission to use wireless sets; the response of British officials to a United States Government request to PCL for information on petroleum resources in Qatar and the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , October-November 1946; aerial surveys of the Bahrain-Qatar Unallotted Area; the application of US President Harry S Truman's continental shelf doctrine to the issue (e.g. folios 141, 110); maps of the area; Admiralty comments on the need for all parties to be aware that the sea bed only was concerned, and that the waters above, and free navigation, were in no way affected (folio 46); correspondence from the oil companies involved; and the reactions of local rulers to the negotiations.
The file also contains five maps.
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.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (296 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 296; 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. Foliation anomaly: 268a.
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- Title
- Coll 30/87(2) Part II 'Qatar: Oil Concession - P.C.L.'s Operations.'
- Pages
- front, back, front-i, 2r:4v, 7r:12v, 15r:15v, 16v:17v, 18v:22v, 31r:51v, 52v:85v, 86v:104v, 105v:123v, 125r:130v, 131v:155v, 157r:167v, 168v:211v, 212v:218v, 230r:233v, 234v:239v, 242r:243v, 244v:254v, 258r:266v, 267v:268v, 268ar:268av, 269r:271v, 272v, 275r:282v, 283v:286v, 296r:296v
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