File 2794/1921 Pt 5 'Persian Gulf: Oil. Qatar' [‎197v] (388/524)

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IOR/L/PS/10/994/1 consists of memoranda, letters, and correspondence concerning the development of an oil concession for Qatar (also referred to as El Katr). Included are the following:

• Correspondence between British Government officials discussing the implications of different forms of wording to use in responding to a request from the Eastern and General Syndicate Limited to contact the Shaikh of Qatar [Shaikh Abdullah bin Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani] to discuss the terms whereby the company would exploit any oil resources to be found in his territory
• Correspondence discussing the view that Shaikh of Qatar is not one of the Trucial Chiefs and that the autonomy of Qatar was recognized in the (unratified) Anglo-Turkish Agreement of July 1913
• The terms of the British agreement with the Shaikh of Qatar to defend against attack from land and relations between the Shaikh of Qatar and Ibn Saud
• Analysis of Ibn Saud's methods of persuading the Shaikh of Qatar to give the oil concession to Standard Oil rather than the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.

The principal correspondents are: the Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office, London; 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. , (John Gilbert Laithwaite); the Admiralty; an official of the Petroleum Department, Mines Department (F C Starling); and the Secretary of the Eastern and General Syndicate Limited (H T Adams).

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