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6. My Company agrees that to the extent that any materials and supplies
required by it are available in Qatar of the necessary quality and at
reasonably competitive prices, it will give preference in making such
purchases to local suppliers.
7. My Company agrees that after the Date of commencement of regular
export of oil, Your Excellency shall be entitled to appoint a representa­
tive to be present as an observer at local Management meetings held
in Qatar at which general operating programmes and budgets are
considered.
8. If by reason of " Force Majeure ” my Company finds it necessary to
suspend its operations in Qatar, my Company will immediately inform
Your Excellency and will discuss with you the measures both will take
having regard to the normal practice of Oil Companies in similiar
circumstances, for the protection of Your Excellency’s interests and
to recompense those of my Company’s employees in Qatar whose
services it may become necessary to terminate.
I request Your Excellency to be kind enough to signify your agreement
with the foregoing by signing and returning to me the attached duplicate of this
communication.
Agreed.
(Sgd.) Ali bin Abdulla Al Thani
(Ruler of Qatar)

(b)
Letter, dated November 29, 1952, from Shell Overseas Exploration Company to
the Ruler of Qatar regarding payments to be made to the latter under the
Concession Agreement
With reference to the provisions of Article 11 Clause 1 of the Agreement
between Your Excellency and the Company I represent, signed to-day, I record
our verbal understanding that my Company agrees in principle, and will confirm to
you in a further letter, that, to the extent that any amounts paid by my Company
to the credit of Your Excellency’s account in Doha in accordance with the above-
mentioned Clause may be converted by you from Sterling currency of the United
Kingdom into Indian Rupees, my Company will make good to Your Excellency
the loss to you, if any, represented by the Bank buying rate for such Sterling
currency being different from the Indian Rupee/Sterling par rate.

(c).

Letter, dated November 29, 1952, from Shell Overseas Exploration Company to the
Representative of the Ruler of Qatar, stating that in accordance with the
terms of the Concession Agreement all the Personnel, Staff and Equipment
of the Company would be transferred from Bahrain to Doha by
June 30, 1953
Subject to accommodation suitable to the Company being available in Doha
the Company will transfer the majority of its personnel from Bahrain to Doha by
the 31st day of December 1952 and will move the remaining staff, equipment,
and the stores which have been purchased for the operations to be carried out under
the Agreement between His Excellency and the Company and signed to-day and
which are at present at Bahrain, to Doha as soon as possible and in any event before
the 30th day of June 1953.
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