IOR/L/PS/12/3901

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.