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CAB 134/1086

Middle East Oil Committee: Meetings 1-16 (1955); Papers 1-32 (1955-1956); Meeting 1 (1956); Papers 1-3 (1956), 1955 Jan 6-1956 Jan 24

This file contains cabinet memoranda for the Middle East Oil Committee’s minutes of meetings from 6 January 1955 to 7 January 1956. This entire file concerns Gulf matters.
FCO 8/2578

Visits by ministers from Saudi Arabia to UK, 1975 Jan 01 - 1975 Dec 31

This file concerns ministerial visits from Saudi Arabia to the UK, from June 1975 to January 1976.
FCO 8/2121

Visit of Sheikh Ahmad Zaki Yamani, Saudi Arabian Minister of Petroleum, to UK, 28-30 November 1973, 1973 Jan 01 - 1973 Dec 31

This file relates to a visit to London by the Saudi Arabian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Wealth Sheikh Ahmad Zaki Yamani and the Algerian Minister of Industry and Energy M Belaid Abdesselam. This visit was part of a tour of Western capitals to explain the Arab viewpoint on the oil resolutions adopted in two meetings held by Arab oil ministers. The two resolutions involve the reduction of oil production and an embargo on the US and Netherlands as a result of support for Israel in the 1973 Arab-Israeli War.
FCO 8/741

Oil production, 1967-1968

This file is about the production of oil to be used as fuel and for the generation of power in Qatar.
FO 1016/114

Territorial claims to Faosi Islands, 1949 Dec 30-1950 Aug 10

This file relates to disputed claims to the islands of Farsi and Arabi between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
FO 371/168904

Oil concessions, 1963

This file contains correspondence relating to: Visit of the Riyadh representative of the Getty Oil Company to London on his way back to Saudi Arabia (1) Report that James W Menhall is currently negotiating with the Saudi Government for oil concession rights in the Red Sea area of western Arabia (2) Press cutting of an article in the Financial Times reporting that Menhall has made an offer for the concession rights (3) Reports stating that a dispute between the Trans-Arabian Pipeline Company and Saudi Arabia over royalties due to the Saudi Government for oil passing through the pipe