Oil concessions in Muscat and Oman

This file contains correspondence relating to:

• Draft article [enclosed] which the shareholders of the Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC) wish to be inserted in their contract with the Sultan of Muscat and Oman Saeed Bin Taimur (1)
• The Sultan's dissatisfaction at the progress made by IPC. It also contains correspondence regarding a subsequent meeting between the Sultan and representatives of IPC and the IPC's agreement to provide more frequent reports to the Sultan (2)
• Surveys and drillings being carried out by IPC and Cities Service Company (3)
• Decision by Petroleum Development (Oman) to abandon the bore at Fahud (4)
• Discussion with William Lindsay and Mr Bird of IPC regarding the difficulties experienced by the company in Oman (5)
• News that Cities Services now have productive oil wells at Marmul and the hope that this might provide revenue for the reform of the Muscat administration and armed forces (6-8, 11)
• Need for the Sultan to confirm his proposed terms for an oil agreement and tax law, in light of the discovery of oil deposits at Marmul (9-10)
• Photostat copy of an article entitled 'First Oil Found in Southeast Arabia', that appeared in Petroleum Week on 9 August (12)