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'File 5/1 VII Kuwait Oil Company' [122r] (248/458)
The record is made up of 1 file (225 folios). It was created in 22 May 1933-30 Dec 1933. 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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V&.4636/1W3,
P.D.745.
Dear i'aitbmite,
PETROLEUM DEPARTPJNT
(Mine© Department),
Dean Stanley Street,
Millbank,
feetmineter, London, S.W.l
31 st July, 1933.
x 1 ^ t
Thank© for your letter of July 14th, addressed
to Giffard, giving the history and status of the Neutral
Zone between Nejd and Koweit; this detailed account will
be most useful to the Department. le are particularly
interested in this question because the point has arisen
of whether the Neutral Zone fail© within the Iraq Petroleum
Company’s sphere of influence which seems to depend partly
on the question of how long the Neutral Zone ha© been in
existence and whether politically it can still be regarded
as a part of the Sultanate of Koweit, and partly on the
view the I.P.C. my take.
The I.P.C. Group Agreement of 1928, which
defined the area within which the groups composing the
I.P.C. agreed not to compete for concessions, drew a red
line round Arabia and Asia Minor, but left out Kowieit
and the Farsan Islands. Bahrein was included within the
area. In regard to Koweit in particular, the definitions
appended to the map which accompanied the Agreement state
that the red line is intended to follow *the limit of the
territorial waters of the Arabian i 6'iinsuits.
Sultanate of Koweit and the Farsan islands Archipelago •
As the Neutral Zone had been constituted when this
Agreement was entered into it is not unlikely that the
I.P.C, might take the line that for the purposes of their
LLaithwaite, Esq.,
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.
,
S.W.l
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This file contains papers relating to the securing of oil agreements in Kuwait. Most of the papers consist of correspondence between various British Political Agents in Kuwait and Bahrain, 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. , 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. , and the British Legation at Jeddah. The papers discuss the British governments position with regards to exploring for oil in the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. region with the view to securing as many contracts as possible for British firms as the region became increasingly visible to international oil companies after the discovery of oil in Bahrain in 1932.
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- 1 file (225 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 227; 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. Two additional foliation sequences are also present in parallel between ff 6-222, and ff 180-222; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- IOR/R/15/5/242
- Title
- 'File 5/1 VII Kuwait Oil Company'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:226v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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