Relationship between Kuwait Government and Kuwait Oil Company Ltd

This file concerns the relationship between the government of Kuwait and the Kuwait Oil Company Limited (KOC). It contains correspondence on:

• Details of the staff and labour force of KOC at the end of 1953 and in June 1954 (1, 11)
• Request by the Kuwaiti Government for KOC to build school buildings for the children of their Arab employees and the more general question of how KOC should respond to the Government's extra-concessionary demands (2-5, 17)
• Likely effect of oil negotiations in Saudi Arabia and Iraq on those between the Kuwait Government and KOC (3-4, 6, 9)
• Possible sources of opposition to the ruling regime and a proposal by the Managing Director of KOC C A P Southwell for the status of the British representation in Kuwait to be increased, so as to provide more effective support to the Ruler (3, 5, 8, 12)
• Request from some French geographical experts to view the Kuwait oil installations (10)
• Extracts from the book Our Stolen Oil by Joseph Khatar al Halawy (13)
• Question of future arrangements for KOC's representation in Kuwait town and the proposal that the current Chief Local Representative Colonel H R P Dickson should be replaced (14-16)
• Suggestion that KOC should do more to integrate its activities with the economic life of Kuwait (18)