Coll 30/164 'Oil: Oil Concesssions on the Trucial Coast:- Kalba.'
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- Coll 30/164 'Oil: Oil Concesssions on the Trucial Coast:- Kalba.'
- Date:
- 1938/1940
- Description:
- Abstract: The file concerns the signing of the Kalba oil concession. The concession consisted of the commercial agreement between Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmad bin Sultan [Khālid bin Aḥmad bin Sulṭān Āl Qasimī], Regent of Kalba, and Petroleum Development (Trucial Coast) Limited, signed on 20 December 1938 (copy folios 94-102); and the political agreement between HM Government and Petroleum Development (Trucial Coast) Limited, signed on 11 April 1940 (signed copy folios 12-13).The papers cover: correspondence from Petroleum Development (Trucial Coast) Limited, and its parent company, Petroleum Concessions Limited; information on political developments in Kalba; the progress of negotiations over the oil concession; the opinion of the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf that it was Shaikh Khalid's ambition to reunite the whole of the Qawasim territories under his own rule (folio 108); drafts of the political agreement; comments on the drafts by the Petroleum Department, the Foreign Office, and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; British Government approval for the signing of the oil concession; and British satisfaction that the income derived by the Regent of Kalba would be not be 'dissipated, or appropriated to his own use' (e.g. folio 18).The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 120; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Concessions, Oil, Kalba
- Geographic region:
- Kalba
- Rights:
- غير معروف
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000648.0x0001d7_ar
81055/vdc_100000000648.0x0001d7_en
IOR/L/PS/12/3901
IOR/L/PS/12/3901