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modern accepted practice and methods; and the Company shall take all reasonable
measures to prevent this ingress of water to any petroleum-bearing strata and shall
duly close any unproductive holes drilled by it and subsequently abandoned. The
Company shall take all reasonable precautions against fire, or other loss or waste
of oil or water. Wells and well-sites shall be kept in reasonably clean condition.
The Company shall keep the Government informed generally as to the pro­
gress and results of its researches, explorations, development and drilling opera­
tions, but such information shall be treated as confidential.
Article 18
The Company shall furnish the Government with a map of each hole or
well drilled for oil, showing its geographical location. The Company shall retain
all samples and cores taken for testing, examination or analysis and will make
the same available to the Government at its request.

Article 19
At the request of the Government, the Company shall give the Government
copies of all maps and drawings and all information it may obtain in its operations
hereunder, whether during the exploration or drilling or exploitation periods. The
Government shall regard such information as confidential. The Company shall
likewise submit to the Government, at the Company’s own expense, at the end
of the third month of each fiscal year of the Company, a complete, detailed report
in Arabic dealing with all the Company’s operations hereunder in the previous
year, and the Government shall consider such report as confidential. The Govern­
ment representative may at all suitable times inspect the maps and the geological
records pertaining to the Neutral Zone in the Company’s possession, which records
or duplicates thereof must be kept in the Neutral Zone or in Saudi Arabia. Plans
for railways, ports, harbors, airports, pipelines, telegraph and telephone wires
and buildings for Government use shall be submitted by the Company to the
Government for its approval, which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
Article 20
The Company shall conduct all its operations of researches, exploration,
exploitation, drilling and development hereunder in a very diligent and continuous
manner.
Article 21
The Company will employ Saudi Arabian and other Arab personnel in its
operations in said Neutral Zone to the greatest extent practicable and will give
employment preference therein first to Saudi Arabian citizens, and second to
citizens Qf other friendly Arab Nations, in respect of work for which they may
be qualified; provided, however, that the Company reserves the right to employ
and import such non-Arabian skilled, technical and supervisory personnel as it
may deem reasonably necessary or desirable, and such other personnel as cannot
be obtained from Saudi Arabia or other friendly Arab nations. The Company
shall offer all reasonable facilities in the direction of training and teaching the
laborers and employees of the Company in said Neutral Zone with a view to
improving them and raising their position in the Company. Any employee or
laborer imported by the Company who shall, by his actions or conduct, cause a
breach of the peace or public disturbance or shall otherwise render himself
undesirable, shall at the request of the Government be dismissed and sent out
of said Neutral Zone and Saudi Arabia. The Company shall pay to the workmen
it employs in said Neutral Zone a fair wage to be announced by the Company at
the time the workmen are engaged.
The Company shall establish for the benefit of its employees in said Neutral
Zone, suitable pension, retirement and thrift plans and accident and health benefits
when the nature and extent of the operations of the Company hereunder shall
reasonabty justify the same, with due respect to applicable labor leeislation in
tne Neutral Zone. If any foreign labor is admitted, the Company undertakes to
repatriate, at its own expense, when the purpose for which such labor is admitted
nas been accomplished, any person so admitted who may not have obtained the
consent of the Government to remain in said Neutral Zone or Saudi Arabia
rK,lhe Government shall have the absolute right to prohibit, in the interest of
public security or for political or religious reasons, any persons employed bv the
Company from entering the Neutral Zone or Saudi Arabia. It is understood
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