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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Concessions, Oil, Kuwait-Nejd Neutral Zone Digitised Content Yes (available)

1. IOR/R/15/1/642

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/642
Title:
File 86/1 VI (D 97) Kuwait Oil
Scope & Content:
The correspondence in the volume relates to three main areas of discussion: The Kuwait Oil Company's negotiations with the Shaikh of Kuwait, Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, for the granting of an oil concession in Kuwait. Included within the volume are copies of both the draft concession agreement, in ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
7 Feb 1934-30 Apr 1934
Extent:
1 volume (242 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/1/643

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/643
Title:
File 86/1 VII (D 101) Kuwait Oil
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence between the Political Agent at Kuwait (Harold Richard Dickson); Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Trenchard Craven Fowle); His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan); Officials in the India and Foreign Offices (including Sir Louis Kershaw, John Gil...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Apr 1934-30 Jun 1934
Extent:
1 volume (249 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/644

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/644
Title:
86/1 VIII Kuwait Oil D 106
Scope & Content:
The correspondence in the volume is primarily concerned with the ongoing negotiations between the Kuwait Oil Company (led by Frank Holmes and Archibald Chisholm) and the Shaikh of Kuwait, Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, which were suspended in June 1934 following disagreements between the partie...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jul 1934-31 Dec 1934
Extent:
1 volume (346 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/1/645

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/645
Title:
86/1 IX Kuwait Oil (D 111)
Scope & Content:
The file is primarily concerned with the conclusion of the Koweit [Kuwait] Oil Concession negotations between the Shaikh of Kuwait [Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ], and the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC). Correspondence includes discussion between both parties and the India Office over final amendment...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Dec 1934-30 Apr 1935
Extent:
1 file (230 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/1/667

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/667
Title:
'Confidential D 107 86/5-I Eastern and General Syndicate Ltd. - Saudi Arabia'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence to and from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Trenchard Craven Fowle, Percy Gordon Loch), Political Agent at Bahrain (Percy Gordon Loch), and Political Agent at Kuwait (Harold Richard Patrick Dickson) regarding matters in Saudi Arabia and their affect...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Mar 1933-30 Jan 1935
Extent:
1 volume (213 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/1/685

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/685
Title:
'D.142 CONFIDENTIAL. 86/13-i. P.C.L. KUWAIT.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence between the India Office (John P Gibson, Maurice Clauson, Roland T Peel, John C Walton); the Foreign Office (George Rendel, Lacy Bagallay); the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Trenchard C Fowle); the Political Agent at Kuwait (Gerald Simpson de Gaury);...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
17 Jan 1936-17 Oct 1938
Extent:
1 volume (233 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/1/686

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/686
Title:
'CONFIDENTIAL 86/13-II VOL. D.177. KUWAIT NEUTRAL ZONE'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Trenchard C Fowle, Charles G Prior); the Political Agent at Kuwait (Gerald S de Gaury, Arnold C Galloway, Tom Hickinbotham); the India Office (John P Gibson, Roland T Peel); the Foreign Office (Lacy Baggallay...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Nov 1938-23 Nov 1946
Extent:
1 volume (265 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/1/687

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/687
Title:
'D.178 86/13-III KUWAIT NEUTRAL ZONE'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (William Rupert Hay); the Political Agent at Kuwait (Gordon Noel Jackson, Maurice O’Connor Tandy); the India Office (later the Commonwealth Relations Office, Eion Pelly Donaldson, Adrian Harbottle Reed, Ralph Ing...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Nov 1946-3 Jun 1948
Extent:
1 file (300 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/873

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/873
Title:
File 39/2 (1 B/8) Effect of abrogation of APOC concession by Persian Government on oil market in Bahrain
Scope & Content:
The file contains a letter from the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain and a letter from Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC), regarding the situation in Bahrain after the dispute between Britain and Persia, due to the cancellation of the 1901 D'Arcy Concession (see IOR/R/15/1/636). The file als...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
5 Dec 1932-15 May 1933
Extent:
1 file (38 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/878

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/878
Title:
File 39/7 (10/9) Kuwait Oil Concession
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between Kuwait Oil Company, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Political Agent at Bahrain and the Political Agent at Kuwait. The correspondence discusses the discovery of oil in Kuwait; because of the scarcity of oil found in the well at Bahra it was ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Mar 1936-16 May 1947
Extent:
1 file (42 folios)