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Oil: Dubai/Abu Dhabi seabed boundary, 1964

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