IOR/L/PS/12/3886

The file concerns negotiations over the Political Agreement between HM Government and Petroleum Concessions Limited, and its subsidiary, Petroleum Concessions (Trucial Coast) Limited, relating to the Sharjah Oil Concession, and the related Commercial Agreement between the Ruler of Sharjah, Shaikh Sultan Bin Sagar [Sultan bin Saqr Āl Qāsimī], and Petroleum Concessions Limited.

The papers include: draft agreements; India Office minutes; correspondence from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and the Foreign Office; correspondence and telegrams from the oil companies concerned, and their representatives (including Major Frank Holmes); bound copy of the Commercial Agreement, dated 17 September 1937 (folios 100-118); signed copy of the Political Agreement, dated 12 November 1937 (folios 86-87); exchange of notes between the Political Agent, Bahrain and the Ruler of Sharjah, 1938; India Office confidential print entitled 'Sharjah Oil Concession and Connected Documents' (folios 36-45); and agreement between the Ruler and the Company concerning a six-year extension to the commencement of drilling (to 1952), 1946.

The Arabic content of the file consists of a copy of the commercial agreement in both English and Arabic (folios 100-118) and a letter in Arabic with English translation from the Political Agent, Bahrain (folio 48).

There are no papers in the file dated 1939-45.

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.