Oil

This file contains correspondence relating to:

• Kuwaiti Oil Affairs Department's monthly statements of oil production, refining and export for August-November 1963 (41)
• Decision of the Government of Kuwait to carry out a full survey of its oil reserves (42)
• Conversation between R S Crawford and Managing Director of the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) D E C Steel on KOC negotiations with the Government of Kuwait (43)
• Request for information about a projected oil deal between India and Kuwait; the Indian Government's proposal to conclude a long-term contract with the Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNCP) for products from a planned refinery; the Indian proposal for the joint exploitation of areas relinquished by the KOC and the possibility that the KOC will supply the KNPC with crude oil from Minagish [Al Manaqish] (44, 47, 53)
• Negotiations between the KOC and the government of Kuwait in September 1963. It includes a list of topics discussed during the KOC-Kuwait Government Talks; and an announcement of the agreement [enclosed] printed in Al Kuwait Al Yawm (45)
• Kuwait and the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) (46)
• Public relations of the KOC with the Kuwaiti press and the National Assembly (48)
• Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs' claim over the whole of the northern Gulf. It includes the coverage of Arab, internal and UK affairs by the Kuwaiti press in October; Dr Husni's belief that the Iranian claims were made without the relevant authorisation and the halt in the operations of Shell during the negotiation of delayed payments to Kuwait; a conversation between the Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aram and the UK Ambassador Sir D A H Wright, confirming that the claims were not given authorisation; minutes on the demarcation of the Kuwait-Iran Median Line in the northern Gulf (49-51, 55)
• KOC figures for sterling transfers to Kuwait for the first three quarters of 1963 (52)
• Operation of the American Independent Oil Company (Aminoil) at Mina Abdulla, cooperation with the Getty Oil Company and move to Khor Al Mufatta (54)
• Moratorium on payments by Shell pending settlement of offshore boundaries (56)
• Kuwaiti Minister of Finance Sheikh Jabir Al Ahmad Al Sabah's rejection of the agreement between BP and Ahmad Sayyed Omar on the acceleration of tax payments and the resubmission of the agreement and its second rejection by Sheikh Jabir Al Ahmad (57, 61)
• Details of the output and operations of the projected KNPC refinery (58)
• Conversation between Ashraf Lutfi, G G Stockwell of BP and Steel of KOC (59)
• Wide-ranging interview with Sayyed Omar published in Middle East Economic Survey (60)
• Permission of Sheikh Jabir and Sayyed Omar for the KOC to drill near the Kuwait-Iraq border (62)