Kuwait Oil Company

This file relates to the Kuwait Oil Company Limited (KOC) and its dealing with the state of Kuwait. It contains correspondence on:

• Willingness of KOC to consider handing over tanker agency work at Al Mina Al Ahmadi to local interests; and the support of the Ruler of Kuwait Sheikh Abdulla Al Salem Al Sabah for a local syndicate to take it over, under the name the Maritime Agency Services (Kuwait) Limited and with the involvement of Abdulla Ali Reza and the son of Sheikh Fahad Al Salem Al Sabah Sheikh Ali Al Fahad Al Sabah 
• Appointment of E A V de Candole as KOC public relations officer
• Involvement of independent oil consultant Dr John Murray
• Comment on chief representative Colonel H R P Dickson who focuses on the ‘social side of affairs’

It also contains correspondence relating to:

• Establishment of the Kuwait Oxygen and Acetylene Company
• Difficulties of Qatar Petroleum Company Limited
• Purchase of bricks by KOC from the Sand/Lime Brick Factory
• Article from Akhbar ul-Usboue assessing oil and shipping