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Notes to Chapter Eight

Sharjah had given permission for a visit by PCL geologists in 1937; in
this case the Bani Qitab claimed the area as their clar.
G5 For continuation of the narrative on oil exploration see below pages
306f.
66 Qasr al Subbarah, built in spring 1800 and used for 18 years as a base
for forays into Oman. A Wahhabi force was in possession of Buraimi
again from 1833 to 1839, from 1845 to 1850, and from 1853 to 1869 the
oasis was occupied by the Amir Faisal bin Turki’s strong troops while
he was a dependent of the Ottoman Porte. See also above, pages 278f.
67 See for the following particularly Kelly, Britain, pp. 290ff.
68 Quoted in Kelly, Eastern, p. 122; see also for the following, ibid. pp.
I 123ff.
69 A record of the seven plenary (not the five informal) sessions is given in
the UK Memorial II, Annex D, no. 36, pp. 211ff.
70 See UK Memorial I, pp. 104ff.
71 For the main provisions in the agreement see Kelly, Eastern, p. 163.
72 Reprinted as Appendix A in Kelly, Eastern, pp. 281-92.
73 Both parties had prepared Memorials to pul their cases before the
tribunal; these were the often quoted UK Memorial and the Saudi
Memorial.
74 See Kelly, Eastern, p. 174; for details of the proceedings in Geneva see
ibid., pp. 199-206 and Keesing’s Contemporary Archives, vol. X
(1955-6), p. 14445A.
75 See below, pages 311 ff.
76 See Hansard, Parliamentary Debates, 5th series, House of Commons,
vol. 545 (1955-6) and Keesing’s, vol. X (1955-6), p. 14534Af.
77 The frontier declared by the British Government in October 1955
differed from the Riyadh Line in that it did not start at Dauhah al Salwa
(the south-western coast of Qatar), but at a point several kilometres
west of Khaur al 'Udaid; the 1955 line deviated some kilometres east
from the Riyadh Line, to touch the Sufuk wells. In the south-eastern part
it deviated again, turning north-west to reach Umm il Zumul, the final
point of the common border between Abu Dhabi and the Sultanate of
Oman. See map in Kelly, Eastern.
78 See below, page 368.
79 Because the oil company which held the concessions in the Trucial
States, PC (TC) was a consortium of British, Dutch, American, French
and other interests. On shareholding of the IPC see above, footnote 54 of
this chapter, and for more details of oil exploration in this period see
above pages 105ff. ADMA was 66§ per cent BP and 33£ per cent CFP.
80 The number of people, who were connected during the 1950s with either
of the oil companies or their service companies, was boosted firstly by
the insistence of the Rulers that, while drilling went on in their territory,

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