Oil

This file relates to oil development in the Trucial States. It contains correspondence concerning:

• Note for the fortnightly intelligence digest on oil development in Abu Dhabi, with subsequent comments (21)
• Sea bed area of Ras Al Khaimah, with an attached map (22)
• Charles Tennant and Company Limited’s operations in Abu Dhabi and their plans to operate as management and financial consultants to the Ruler Sheikh Shakhbut Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, and the request for an oil advisor to the Ruler (23)
• Letter from the Ruler of Dubai Sheikh Rashid Bin Saeed Al Maktoum to Petroleum Development (Trucial Coast) (PDTC) requesting an amendment of the 1937 Agreement signed between PDTC and Dubai (24)
• Status of Tennants in Abu Dhabi (25)
• Ras Al Khaimah oil concession and the interest of a company from Spain, Compania Arrendataria del Monopolio del Petroleo S.A. (CAMPSA) in the negotiations (26)
• American Independent Oil Company (Aminoil) being informed that the Sharjah concessions are again on the market (27)
• Contracting and Trading Company’s (CAT) projects in Abu Dhabi including a PDTC drilling contract and a hotel (28)
• Appointment of Stuart Kennedy Watt as Chief Local Representative for PDTC (29)
• Sheikh Rashid’s discontent with Dubai Marine Areas Limited and his meeting with their chief local representative Mr Horan (30)
• D F Hawley’s meeting with the Ruler of Ajman, Sheikh Rashid Bin Humaid Al Nuaimi about PDTC’s termination of their concession in Ajman (31)
• Appointment of J J Page as Chief Representative and General Manager of PDTC in Abu Dhabi (32)
• PDTC’s termination of their concession agreements with Sharjah, Ajman and Umm Al Quwain, with confirmation that related political agreements with HMG will also terminate (33)
• Report in a Japanese newspaper that Japanese firms had been invited to participate in oil exploration and development in some Trucial States, particularly the Arabian Oil Company (Japan); a note on the Trucial States which are free of oil concessions (34)
• Decision of Dubai Marine Areas Limited to carry out a marine seismic survey; the revision of the concession agreement between them and Dubai, with the involvement of Dr Hasan Kamel in negotiations (36-37)
• Visit of Sheikh Shakhbut to London and the points to discuss with him concerning oil (38, 40)
• Representative of PDTC George Tod’s request for the definition of the Riyadh Line (39)