Oil: Dubai/Abu Dhabi seabed boundary

This file contains correspondence relating to:

• Dubai-Abu Dhabi seabed boundary question and its connection to disputes over the land frontier (21)
• Opportunity to use the Dubai Petroleum Company's wish to drill for oil as a means to induce the Ruler of Dubai Sheikh Rashid Bin Saeed Al Maktoum to accept Ras Hasian as the starting point of the seabed boundary line (22)
• Dubai Petroleum Company to postpone any new offshore drilling (23)
• Dubai Petroleum Company's desire to drill a structure which overlaps the operating limits imposed by HMG on both the Iran and Abu Dhabi sides of their concession area (24)