1980 Jan 30 - 1983 Jun 23
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/1016
Energy (North Sea oil prices; heavy fuel oil prices; oil prices in the longer term) (Part 1)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2013 Aug 1 |
| Classification: | Confidential |
| Page count: | 355 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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| Date | Value | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 83 Mar 9 We | Major | Energy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Oil price") [meeting to discuss response to Sheikh Yamani/OPEC proposition] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 83 Mar 9 We | Major | Energy: Department of Energy record of conversation ("Note of the Secretary of State's meeting with Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Saudi Minister of Petroleum on 9 March 1983") [oil prices/OPEC proposition] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 83 Mar 10 Th | Major | Energy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Pym, Lawson, Middleton, Walters, Couzens, Evans) ["Oil prices"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 83 Mar 10 Th | Major | Energy: Department of Energy record of conversation ("Note of the Secretary of State's telephone conversation with Sheikh Ahmed Azki Yamani, Saudi Minister for Petroleum on 10 March 1983") [oil prices] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 83 Mar 12 Sa | Major | Energy: MT message to King Fahd (oil price situation) ["I believe that... [our] views... on this have been very similar. We also share your interest in avoiding a further sharp fall in prices"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 83 Mar 15 Tu | Major | Energy: UKE Caracas telegram to FCO ("Venezuela/OPEC and the financial situation") ["a price collapse would be a disaster for Venezuela"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 83 Mar 16 We | Major | Energy: Lawson minute to MT ("The oil price and the UK economy") ["a note by my Department which examines in some depth the implications of a falling oil price... and the question of our relations with OPEC"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 83 Mar 19 Sa | Major | Energy: Sir Kenneth Couzens letter to Pym PS ("The US and oil prices") ["our concern about the line which members of the US Administration are taking on the recent OPEC agreement and on the oil price generally"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 83 Mar 23 We | Major | Energy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("The oil price and the United Kingdom economy") ["general climate of uncertainty following the precarious agreement reached with so much difficulty by OPEC ten days ago and its implications for British policy"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 83 Mar 24 Th | Major | Energy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Lawson, Middleton, Jenkin, Lord Cockfield, Hurd, Walters & others) ["The oil price and the United Kingdom economy"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 83 Mar 25 Fr | Major | Energy: Lawson PS letter to No.10 ("The oil price and the United Kingdom economy") [draft MT message to the rulers of UAE, Kuwait and Qatar] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 83 Mar 27 Su | Major | Energy: UKE Kuwait telegram to FCO ("Oil") [record of Hurd conversation with Kuwaiti Oil Minister: OPEC/Nigeria/USSR] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 83 Mar 28 Mo | Major | Energy: Lawson PS letter to No.10 (North Sea oil prices & Nigeria) ["Lawson will seek [Yamani's] help in presenting these proposals as a helpful step towards stabilising the market"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 83 Mar 31 Th | Major | Energy: UKE Kuwait telegram to FCO ("Oil prices") [Nigeria; OPEC] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 83 Apr 5 Tu | Major | Energy: UKHC Lagos telegram to FCO ("Oil prices") [UK High Commissioner conversation with Dikko, Nigerian Minister for Transport] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 83 Apr 5 Tu | Major | Energy: UKHC Lagos telegram to FCO ("Oil prices") [Dikko, Nigerian Minister for Transport reply to Lawson] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 83 Apr 8 Fr | Major | Energy: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("Visit of UAE Minister of Petroleum") ["A meeting [with MT] would demonstrate the importance we attach to the channel of communication between the Prime Minister and Shaikh Zaid"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 83 Apr 18 Mo | Major | Energy: Department of Energy record of conversation (oil prices) [Lawson, Mana Saeed al Otaiba] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 83 Jun 22 We | Major | Energy: Department of Energy record of conversation (oil prices) [Walker, Mana Saeed al Otaiba] [declassified Aug 2013] |