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AVIA 2/2800

This file was originally catalogued under more than one subject heading. Those headings, and details of this file, are as follows: AERODROMES: General (Code 4/2): Persian Gulf aerodromes: air agreements with Bahrain, Kuwait and Muscat. COLONIAL AND FOREIGN (Code: 11/1): Persian Gulf aerodromes; Air agreements with Bahrain, Kuwait and Muscat. ROUTES AND SERVICES: Foreign (Code 27/2): Persian Gulf aerodromes; air agreements with Bahrain, Kuwait and Muscat, 1934-1937

This file concerns the civil air agreements made between the UK and Bahrain, Kuwait and the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman.
FCO 8/5748

Saudi Arabia: international financial relations, 1984 Jan 01 - 1984 Dec 31

This file concerns Saudi Arabia’s international financial relations.
FO 464/15

Arabia: miscellaneous papers, 1933-1955, 1933 Jan 01 - 1955 Dec 31

This file contains miscellaneous papers, reports, correspondence, and treaties relating to Arabia, the Gulf and the wider Middle East, primarily from 1933-1955.
FCO 8/2120

Oil affairs in Saudi Arabia, 1973 Jan 01 - 1973 Dec 31

This file is part B of a series of files concerning oil affairs in Saudi Arabia.
CO 727/4

Offices: Individuals., 1922

This bound volume of Colonial Office correspondence with the Foreign Office, India Office and others, relates to 'Arabia'.
CO 727/3

Offices: (except Admiralty, Foreign), Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous Institutions., 1921

This bound volume of Colonial Office correspondence with the India Office, the Board of Trade and others, relates to ‘Arabia’.
FCO 8/2003

Oil affairs in Kuwait, 1973 Jan 01 - 1973 Dec 31

This file concerns Kuwait’s entry into an oil participation agreement between Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Abu Dhabi with British Petroleum and Gulf Oil Corporation.
FCO 8/1996

Economic relations between Kuwait and EEC, 1973 Jan 01 - 1973 Dec 31

This file concerns proposals for a preferential agreement between Kuwait and the European Economic Community (EEC) concerning oil supplies, seafood exports and the investment of oil revenues.
FO 1016/510

Kuwait sea-bed oil concession, 1956

This file relates to the oil rights of Kuwait's seabed.
FO 371/179757

Persian Gulf median line, 1965

This file relates to the Gulf median line.
FO 371/110179

The Onassis-Saudi Arabian oil shipping agreement: affairs of the AIOC; exchange of correspondence between FO and Mr H P Drewry, 1954

This file contains correspondence relating to: Independent British oil broker H P Drewry’s unsolicited views advice and complaints to HMG about issues including: the Onassis-Saudi Arabian oil agreement; Aristotle Socrates Onassis; the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company; and an allegation that Drewry was improperly prevented from returning to France in 1944 and 1945 by the Petroleum Attaché at the British Embassy in Paris, which ultimately prejudiced his business as an oil broker.