Oil affairs in Saudi Arabia

This file is part B of a series of files concerning oil affairs in Saudi Arabia. It contains correspondence and memoranda relating to:

• Saudi Arabian oil deliveries to Rotterdam
• European Economic Community (EEC) statements on the Middle East and energy
• Saudi Arabia's will to make up HMG's oil supplies so that it does not encounter oil shortages during the period of emergency; and the oil embargo beginning to bite in the US, which could cause widespread industrial shut-downs and heavy unemployment, affecting up to ten million workers, by spring 1974
• Emissary Lord Aldington's [Tony Low] audience with King Faisal Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud in December 1973 during his visit to Saudi Arabia, including reference to: increasing production, practical problems created by the Organisation of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) decisions, and the five percent cut-back that will apply to Europe; Lord Aldington's conversations with Prince Turki Bin Faisal Al Saud, Prince Fahd Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, and Hisham Nazir; and Briefs for Lord Aldington’s visit, including the aims of his visit, these being: to give King Faisal a first-hand account of the pressures on HMG during the Ramadan War to deviate from its Arab-Israeli policy established in 1970; explain the strain on EEC solidarity caused by the Arab embargo on oil exports to the Netherlands; and explore a government-to-government arrangement over oil participation to cover joint refining in Saudi Arabia, joint tankerage on the direct supply route between Saudi Arabia and the UK, and joint storage
• Personality notes on Kamal Adham, Sheikh Ahmad Zaki Yamani, Prince Saud Al Faisal Al Saud and Prince Fahd
• The Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Sheikh Yamani's confirmation that the possibility for the expansion of Saudi oil production to twenty million B/D still exists, in an interview from NBC’s 'Meet the Press' TV program in New York on 9 December 1973; and an interview with Sheikh Yamani published in Newsweek on 24 December 1973
• The joint venture proposal concerning Burma oil
• Problems raised in connection to staffing and communications in Saudi Arabia
• Suggested text of a message from Prime Minister Edward Heath to King Faisal regarding Lord Aldington’s visit, and Saudi-UK oil relations
• A report produced by Research Study: Bureau of Intelligence and Research, titled ‘Downstream Investment’, 24 September 1973
• Discussions between EEC representatives in Jeddah about the way in which the EEC demarche to the Arabs about oil should be carried out
• Discussions on the possible military occupation of oilfields, and HMG’s view that the oil installations damaged by the Arabs, could be put right within two months
• A conversation between representatives of the Burmah Oil Company on 7 December 1973 at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
• Adnan Khashoggi being considered by the Ministry of Defence Sales (MOD Sales) as one of the key Saudi figures in the arms sales field
• The UK Secretary of State for Defence Lord Carrington's [Peter Carington] meeting with the Lebanese Ambassador M Nadim Dimechkie, regarding the situation in the Middle East
• Burmah’s discussions with Petromin on the proposed long term Burmah shipping/refining deal
• US policy on Saudi oil
• An article by Mr Siba'i Othman of Al-Medina, titled 'Who used the Oil Weapon'
• The 'background of Burmah's special position vis-a-vis the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia'
• Speculations that the French President had had to fight off political pressures in France to maintain his Middle East policy
• A conversation between the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home and the Saudi Arabian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Sayyed Omar Saqqaf on 22 October 1973
• A conversation between Sir Douglas-Home and the Saudi Ambassador at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Sheikh Abdul Rahman Al Helaissi on 24 October 1973
• the Saudi Ambassador's request for HMG's help in purchasing 200 oil transporters
• An interview with the new US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia James E Akins regarding oil, published in the 8 October issue of the weekly magazine US News and World Report
• Hashim Nazir's visit to the US in October 1973, including a final itinerary