Oil

This file relates to the oil industry in Kuwait. It contains correspondence concerning:

• Completion of Kuwait Oil Company's (KOC) extension to its refinery at Mina Al Ahmadi (21)
• Financial Times report that Italian company Raffineria Sarda Petroli plans to build a refinery in Sardinia with a third of the output going to Kuwait (22)
• Kuwait National Petroleum Company's (KNPC) Annual Report for 1962, including a photograph of the Ruler Sheikh Abdulla Al Salem Al Sabah (23)
• Draft law to regulate the oil industry in Kuwait (24)
• Kuwaiti complaint that Iran has violated its offshore territory. It includes a cutting from Mideast Mirror (25)
• Kuwait Oil Tanker Company's Annual Report for 1962 (26)
• Ministerial order number 11/63, which describes the reorganisation of the General Oil Affairs Department (27)
• Bargaining between KNPC and the Kuwaiti authorities over the terms of operation of the oil concession area relinquished by KOC (28)
• Ministry of Finance and Industry General Oil Affairs department's monthly oil production, refining and export figures for January to July 1963 (29)
• Change in the relationship between KOC and the state, the progress of the integration of the company and the state, Kuwaitisation and Arabisation, the morale of the company's expatriate employees and pressures on KOC from the press and the National Assembly. It includes comment from Akhbar Al Kuwait on the KOC Annual Report (30-31)
• Questions relating to KOC payments and tax. It includes sterling transfer figures (32)
• Press cutting from The Times: 'Kuwait's oil industry rings the changes' (33)
• Kuwait Shell Petroleum Development Company Limited's Annual Report for 1962 (34)
• Negative press comments of the oil companies and the question of countering this by appointing an Arab to liaise with editors and the National Assembly (35, 37)
• KOC's request for permission to commence drilling for oil practically inside Kuwait town (36)
• Iran's failed attempt to introduce a joint exploitation principle in talks with Kuwait on disputed offshore areas (37-38)
• Information and impressions gathered from the visit of a party from British Petroleum Company Limited and KOC who came to hold discussions with the Kuwaiti Government (40)