مجموعة ٦/ ٤٨ "النفط: امتيازات في المملكة العربية السعودية. (الأحساء)" [و‎‎١‎٣] (١١٥٣/٢٥)

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(c) The Company may promote a company or companies of a nationality
acceptable to the Government to explore and prospect for and
exploit, remove and export petroleum and other hydrocarbon
substances in and from both or in and from each or in and from either
of the said two neutral zones.
Article 7.
The provisions of article 9 of the Saudi Arab Concession shall henceforth
be replaced by the following provisions, namely:—
For a period of ten years from the effective date of this agreement,
the Company shall be under no obligation to relinquish to the Government
any portion of the exclusive area covered by the Saudi Arab Concession,
as modified by this agreement. Upon the expiration of this ten-year period,
and from time to time thereafter, the Company shall relinquish to the
Government such portions of the exclusive area as the Company may decide
not to explore further, or to use otherwise in connexion with the enterprise.
The portion so relinquished shall thereupon be released from the terms and
conditions of the Saudi Arab Concession, as modified by this agreement;
provided, however, that the Company shall, nothwithstanding such
relinquishment, continue to enjoy the right reserved by the Saudi Arab Con
cession to use the portions so relinquished for transportation and communica
tion facilities, the Company interfering as little as practicable with any
other use to which the Government may desire the relinquished portions to
be put.
Article 8.
That portion of article 19 of the Saudi Arab Concession reading as
follows : “ during each year following the date of completion of this plant, the
Company shall offer free to the Government, in bulk, 200,000 American gallons of
gasoline and 100,000 American gallons of kerosene, it being understood that the
facilities provided by the Government for accepting these deliveries shall not
impede or endanger the Company’s operations ” shall be and the same is hereby
amended to read as follows :—
During the year following the first anniversary of the effective date of this
agreement, and during each year thereafter, up to and including the year ending
on the anniversary of the effective date of this agreement next following the
discovery of oil in commercial quantities within the territories described and
referred to in Part Two and Part Three of the schedule to this agreement, the
Company shall offer free to the Government, in bulk, 1,300,000 American gallons
of gasoline and 100,000 American gallons of kerosene.
During the year commencing on the anniversary of the effective date of this
agreement next following such discovery of oil in commercial quantities, and
during each subsequent year of the Saudi Arab Concession as amended by this
agreement, the Company shall offer free to the Government, in bulk,
2,300,000 American gallons of gasoline and 100,000 American gallons of kerosene.
It is understood that, following the completion of the said plant, the gasoline
and kerosene offered to the Government in bulk as aforesaid shall be delivered
to the Government at or in the immediate vicinity of the said plant. The
facilities provided by the Government for accepting deliveries shall not impede
or endanger the Company operations.
Article 9.
From the effective date of this agreement, all the rights and privileges
conferred by article 22 of the Saudi Arab Concession may be exercised by the
Company (a) anywhere in the “exclusive area" described in article 5 of this
agreement; (b) anywhere in the area covered by the concession granted on the
9th day of July, 1936, to the Petroleum Concessions (Limited) (it being understood
that the exercise of these rights by the Company in the area covered by the con
cession granted to the Petroleum Concessions (Limited) does not include the right
to exploit oil therein, nor will it damage the property of the Petroleum Concessions
(Limited) or impede its operations and interests, or interfere therewith. The
Government shall be the sole judge to determine this); (c) anywhere in the Saudi