'File 10/1 II Bahrain Oil Concession' [‎28r] (68/503)

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21. Part 3* SJU
23rd December, 1932,
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Daar Flood,
With reference to your Beral-official letter of
the 20th December, I now enclose our official rsply to
your recent litters on the Bahrein Oil concession*
I have no dealt in that letter with the
suggsjftion nade in i \T* Skinner's letter of the 3rd
December that wo rnight agree to their using the oil,
now feting produced, for the purpose of their operations,
pending ?! ^cttl 'sent of the uuppl ersentary agreement#
On the whole X think we had better try to get that
Agreement out of the way, with the alterations I have
suggested, "because the main point ie that they aaet
have this alteration or they have pot to pay for the oil
t iey tits*This represent® ft conceealon to thern, I cai
let you have pretty early in the He* Year our other
points. One of theee will raist ag^-in th® ^a®ition of
the Sheikh "mim allowed to publieh fibres of output.
Although we gave my on this point in regard to the
prospecting licence I do not consider that we should
accept the vi"W of the Company that their trailing
interests would be adversely effected by the publication
of such fipirer, eft ^r they get their I lining Lease. That
is another reeeon why I should prefer not to hove th#
Etasurinf clauses carried ttorugh to the Mining Les.se
rm*You will esc that in the Iraq Petroleum Company 1 e
AgreerAerA with the Iraq Goverranent the Government has
the power to public any of the information made
available to them under the Convention which they
consider necessary. ^