Oil: Abu Dhabi

This file relates to oil in Abu Dhabi. It includes correspondence concerning:

• Background on the proposed Abu Dhabi Tanker Company (25)
• Abu Dhabi Petroleum Company's (ADPC) exploration programme for drilling up the Abu Dhabi-Qatar frontier and the Abu Dhabi-Muscat frontier in the Umm Al Zamul region (27)
• Request from ADPC concerning relinquishing land to the Ruler of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Shakhbut Bin Sultan Al Nahyan and for a number of points on frontiers to be cleared up [enclosed map] (29)
• New 50/50 concession agreement signed between ADPC and Sheikh Shakhbut (24, 32)
• Outline of the financial aspects of the 50/50 agreement, including comments on concerns over income tax (33)
• Mr Thomson's talk with the Iraq Petroleum Company in Abu Dhabi (34)
• Map [enclosed] showing areas relinquished by ADPC in Abu Dhabi, together with a letter of relinquishment to the Ruler and a detailed schedule (35)
• Relaxation of the restriction whereby the northern coast of the Abu Dhabi off-shore concession area was defined as five miles south of the Median Line (36)
• Mr Becher of Sumption, Berkeley and Company's invitation to finance the Abu Dhabi Tanker Company (21)
• Sheikh Shakhbut's financial troubles (22)
• Qatar's claims to Las Hat [Al Ashat] and Shura'awa Islands (23)