Frontiers between Muscat and Trucial States

This file relates to oil exploration on the Muscat-Trucial States frontier. It contains correspondence concerning:

• Petroleum Development Trucial Coast Limited’s (PDTC) gravity party and a letter from I Kirkbridge on the party's expected coverage in the winter of the Oman-Trucial States frontier (12)
• Letter from D F Hawley to the Political Resident B A B Burrows discussing PDTC’s intended surveys (13)
• Letter from Burrows to W J A Livingstone of the Qatar Petroleum Company Limited (QPC) on the difficulties of surveys operating on the Trucial States-Muscat frontier (14)
• Meeting at the Foreign Office on oil prospecting on the Trucial States-Muscat frontier (15)
• Summary of the main points of conversation with the Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC) on oil prospecting; a discussion with J F Walker and a map [enclosed] of the border area (16)
• Walker’s plans to leave for Muscat in October 1958 (17)
• Question of whether Petroleum Development Oman’s geological survey party on the frontier will interfere with Walker’s activities (18)
• Conversation between the Political Resident and the General Manager of QPC Mr Ensor on the transport of the surveyors by air (19)
• Question of informing IPC of the frontier details supplied by Walker; a summary of the Trucial States frontiers [enclosed] (20)
• Dhofar-Oman border question and the lack of views of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman Saeed Bin Taimur on the subject; the suggestion that Walker should do some mapping of the frontier with the Hadramaut [Hadhramaut] (22)
• Walker’s talks with the Sultan, Ahmed Bin Ibrahim in Muscat and the Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah Sheikh Saqr Bin Mohammad Al Qasimi and his travel plans (21)