Coll 30/123 'Bahrain (Unallotted Zone) Oil Concession: Negotiations with Petroleum Concessions Ltd.' [‎81r] (161/801)

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SECOND SCHEDULE.
Privileges to be enjoyed by the Company under the Prospecting Licence:
I. Free access for their agents and servants necessarily employed by the latter
all parts of the territory under the control of the Shaikh whether private or public
property, saving only sacred buildings, shrines, and graveyards.
II. The right to carry out in any part of the said territory such works as may be
necessary for the purpose of prospecting. If this work is carried out on uncultivated
land the Company shall not be bound to make any payment to the owner of the land,
but shall restore the land as far as possible to its previous state unless it is covered
by a mining lease subsequently granted. If it is carried out on cultivated land the
Company shall pay a rent for the land occupied.
All borings abandoned by the Company which have produced water in valuable
quantity shall be left intact with the casing in position, and shall be sealed with a
suitable valve.
III. Free use of water for their agents and servants.
IV. Free use of fuel lying on land the property of the Shaikh for the same.
V. The right to purchase fuel and food supplies of every kind for man and
beast, being the private property of the Shaikh’s subjects, at current market rates,
which rate in default of agreement between the parties shall be fixed by the Shaikh
or his agents, subject to the right of the Company to appeal to the British Political
Agent at Bahrein if they find it necessary.
VI. Free importation of all material, apparatus, and machinery, of every kind
necessary for the work carried out by the Company, including office requirements, but
not including the personal requirements of employees.
VII. All protection in the Shaikh’s power from theft, highway robbery, assault,
wilful damage, and destruction, but all guards required by the Company shall be
paid for by the Company.
VIII. An extension of the period of the licence if the Company are prevented by
causes beyond their control from carrying out the work of prospecting, the length of
such extension to be fixed by agreement between the parties or failing such agreement
by the Resident in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
IX. The right to win up to 100 tons of oil free of payment and further quantities
of oil on payment of the royalty per ton provided in the mining lease, but on condition
that the Company shall apply for a mining lease in respect of each area in which work
is proceeding as soon as more than 100 tons of oil are won from one single bore hole
within it.
X. The licensees shall take all practical measures to prevent an injurious access
of water to any oil-bearing formations which may be encountered cither while
operations are in progress or upon the abandonment of any well.
THIRD SCHEDULE.
Mining Lease.
Article I.
The Shaikh hereby grants to the Company on behalf of himself and his
successors the exclusive right for a period of fifty-five years to prospect and drill
for, extract, treat, refine, manufacture, transport and deal with petroleum products,
naphtha, natural greases, tar, asphalt, ozokerite, and other bituminous materials,
within the area or areas described in words in the first schedule to this lease and
delineated on the map attached as the second schedule thereto. Such right, however,
shall not include the exclusive rigiit to sell such products within the leased area. He
also grants the Company the exclusive right to construct and operate refineries and
storage tanks within this area and also the right, but not the exclusive right, to
construct, erect, and operate pipe-lines, refineries and storage tanks, railways, wharves
and jetties, tramways, roads, buildings, machinery, and telegraph apparatus of all
kinds in any part of the territory under the control of the Shaikh so far as may be’
necessary for the purpose of their business.