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Container Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS/12/3709-3976 Name Kuwait Oil Company, 1934- Level [40] File

1. IOR/L/PS/12/3808

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3808
Title:
Coll 30/89 'Oil: Koweit Oil Agreement between the Koweit Oil Company and His Majestys Government.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the political agreement between the British Government and the Kuwait Oil Company made in the event of the company obtaining an oil concession from the Shaikh of Kuwait [Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ]. The company was equally owned by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) and the Gulf...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Jan 1934-29 Mar 1935
Extent:
1 volume (283 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/3811

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3811
Title:
Coll 30/91(1) 'Koweit Oil Concession: Agreement between the Shaikh of Kuwait and the Kuwait Oil Company.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns negotiations over the signing of the commercial agreement between the Shaikh of Kuwait, Shaikh Ahmad al-Jabir as-Sabah [Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ] and the Kuwait Oil Company. The agreement provided the company with exclusive rights to exploit oil, gas, and petroleum products with...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
12 Jan 1934-23 Dec 1934
Extent:
1 volume (477 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/3812

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3812
Title:
Coll 30/91(2) 'Koweit Oil Concession: Agreement between the Shaikh of Kuwait and the Kuwait Oil Coy.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the negotiations concerning the signing of the commercial agreement between the Shaikh of Koweit [Kuwait], Shaikh Ahmed al-Jabir as-Subah [Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ] and the Kuwait Oil Company in 1934. The Kuwait Oil Company was 50-50 owned by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC)...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
19 Nov 1934-11 Oct 1935
Extent:
1 volume (390 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/3823

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3823
Title:
Coll 30/104(1) 'Koweit Oil Concession: Personnel of the Koweit Oil Company.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns enquiries into the nationalities of the personnel employed by the Kuwait Oil Company in Kuwait (also referred to as Koweit). The British Government was keen to enforce Article 3 of the Political Agreement dated 5 March 1934 between HM Government and the Company, which stated th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Dec 1934-1 Apr 1948
Extent:
1 file, in 4 parts (655 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/3824

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3824
Title:
Coll 30/104(2) 'Koweit Oil Concession: Operations of the Koweit Oil Company. (Provision of Motor Vehicles & Spares for Sheik of Koweit)'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the operations of the Kuwait Oil Company, from its initial explorations and discovery of commercial quantities of oil in Kuwait, to the suspension of the Company's operations during the Second World War (1939-45), and the resumption of its operations after the war. The main co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1935-20 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file, in 2 parts (373 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/3825

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3825
Title:
Coll 30/104(3) 'Koweit: Medical facilities for non-Asiatic staff in Kuwait of Kuwait Oil Co.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns a proposal by the Kuwait Oil Company to recruit an American nurse in the United States for service to the American and European staff of the Company in Kuwait. The issue arose because the Company had up until that point been dependent for medical and hospital facilities on the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jun 1939-31 Jul 1939
Extent:
1 file (8 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/3826

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3826
Title:
Coll 30/104(4) 'INDIAN & PAKISTAN EMPLOYEES OF KUWAIT OIL COMPANY'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns Indians and Pakistanis working in the Gulf states as employees of the Kuwait Oil Company, the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO), Petroleum Concessions Limited, Qatar, and the Arabian American Oil Company Limited, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, particularly in terms of labour un...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Aug 1948-13 Feb 1950
Extent:
1 file (105 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/3917

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3917
Title:
Coll 30/179 'Kuwait:- Buoying of Kadhama Channel.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence concerning the temporary buoying of the channel to the Ras Kadhama anchorage, at the western end of Kuwait Bay. The request was made by the Kuwait Oil Company, to enable them to land oil well drilling material, and the work was carried out by the Persian Gulf lig...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Feb 1936-7 Jul 1937
Extent:
1 file (20 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/3924

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3924
Title:
Coll 30/186 'Oil: Koweit Territorial Waters. Jurisdiction over the sub-soil beneath the sea. Off-Shore Oil in the Persian Gulf.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the interest of the Kuwait Oil Company in exploring for submarine oil deposits beyond the limits of Kuwait's territorial waters, and the issue of territorial waters in the Persian Gulf generally, in the light of the United States Government's proclamation of 1945 concerning the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
10 Jul 1939-12 Apr 1948
Extent:
1 file (366 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/3926

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3926
Title:
Coll 30/188 'Kuwait: Mining for Sulphur by Kuwait Oil Coy.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns an agreement between the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Sir Ahmed al-Jabir as-Subah [Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ] and a new company, the Eastern Gulf Oil Company Limited (formed from American interests in the Kuwait Oil Company), to explore for deposits of sulphur in Kuwait. Sulphur was u...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
2 Jan 1940-28 Jun 1945
Extent:
1 file (171 folios)