Relations between rulers of Trucial States and Petroleum Development Trucial Coast Company. Code BA file 1531 (papers 12 to end)

This file relates to the relationship between the various Gulf states, HMG and the oil companies. It contains correspondence concerning:

• Request from Petroleum Development (Trucial Coast) (PDTC) to the Foreign Office for copies of maps of Sharjah and the return of previously sent copies (12)
• Impending end of the Exploration Agreement between the Ruler of Fujairah Sheikh Mohammad Bin Hamad Al Sharqi and PDTC and the decision by PDTC not to renew the 1955 agreement with HMG relating to this (13, 17)
• Question of how to find an appropriate successor to PDTC in Sharjah, and PDTC's relinquishment of the Sharjah concession (14, 18)
• Discussions between representatives from Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC), Petroleum Concessions (Oman) and the Foreign Office. It also contains correspondence between Qatar Petroleum Company (QPC) and the Ruler of Qatar Sheikh Ali Bin Abdulla Al Thani (15)
• Confirmation by IPC of the oil strike at No. 2. Murban well (19)
• Concession agreement between the Ruler of Sharjah and PDTC, with which the latter relinquished certain rights (20)
• Report of 1,000 barrels a day flowing from the PDTC oil well at Tarif and confirmation that the Ruler of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Shakhbut Bin Sultan Al Nahyan has been informed (21)
• Plans for the Ruler of Sharjah Sheikh Saqr Bin Sultan Al Qasimi to see representatives from German and Italian oil companies to address the granting of PDTC's relinquished concessions and the Ruler's acceptance of an invitation to Iran (22)
• Termination of the concession agreement between PDTC and the Ruler of Kalba on 20 December 1959 and PDTC's request for confirmation that its political agreement with HMG will terminate on the same date (24)
• Relinquishment of some PDTC concessions and requests by H B Walker for maps of Umm Al Quwain and Ajman as well as descriptions of the Umm Al Quwain and Ajman areas [enclosed] (25-26)
• Draft agreements from PDTC relating to Umm Al Quwain (23)