Oil

This file relates to oil in Muscat and Oman. It contains correspondence on:

• Sultan Saeed Bin Taimur's shortlist of oil advisors (3)
• Difficulties relating to Sultan Saeed Bin Taimur and oil matters (4, 6, 8, 14)
• Petroleum Development (Oman)'s (PDO) application to move the company from the UK to Muscat and Oman (10-12)
• Report from the American Consul in Aden that Wendell Phillips obtained an offshore oil concession from Sultan Saeed Bin Taimur for the Gulf of Oman extending from Ras Al Hadd to Shinas (13)
• Shell's intentions concerning PDO, details of planned production up to 1968 and Sultan Saeed Bin Taimur's projected income from this (17)
• Shell's Draft 50-50 agreement and income tax decree arrangement for Sultan Saeed Bin Taimur to agree (18)
• Draft HMG revision of the PDO concession agreement and tax decree (19)