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1983 Oct 7 - 1986 Jan 31
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1737
Energy (Oil prices: prospects for world oil market; proposed Petroleum Bill; North Sea oil prices; heavy fuel oil prices; oil prices in the longer term) (Part 2)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 31
Classification: Secret and Personal
Page count: 336
Any docs withheld? 4

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Date Value Title
85 Jan 28 Mo Major Energy: Treasury briefing for MT (oil prices) [analysis] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jan 29 Tu Major Energy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Peter Walker) ["BNOC and Oil Prices": Walker's meeting with Nigerian Oil Minister; OPEC meeting/pricing; BNOC] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jan 30 We Major Energy: MT letter to Patrick McNair-Wilson MP (control of oil production in the North Sea) [follow-up to Parliamentary Question on Government's reserve powers] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jan 31 Th Major Energy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Oil Prices in the Aftermath of the OPEC meeting") [analysis; signs of short-term recovery] [released Dec 2014]
85 Feb 5 Tu Major Energy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Briefing Meeting for Lunch with Shaikh Yamani") [meeting with Peter Walker: BNOC policy on prices & participation contracts; lines to take with Yamani] [released Dec 2014]
85 Feb 5 Tu Major Energy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Oil Prices") [analysis; action items] [released Dec 2014]
85 Feb 8 Fr Major Energy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Howe, Peter Walker) ["BNOC and Oil Prices": BNOC withdrawal from participation contracts; Petroleum Bill & winding up of BNOC; move to royalty in cash] [released Dec 2014]
85 Feb 8 Fr Major Energy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (Oil) [prices; production; supply] [released Dec 2014]
85 Feb 13 We Major Energy: Peter Walker letter to Rees ("BNOC Prices and Finances") [Government funding to cover BNOC losses] [released Dec 2014]
85 Feb 14 Th Major Energy: UKE Jedda telegram 83 to FCO (0745Z) ("Oil Prices") [stresses need for Walker to convey message to Yamani as soon as possible] [released Dec 2014]
85 Feb 26 Tu Major Energy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (North Sea oil and gas as a perecentage of GDP, Government revenue, and exports) [figures requested by No.10] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 1 Fr Major Energy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("The Oil Market") [analysis & advice; "BNOC remains a problem"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 22 Fr Major Energy: Peter Walker record of conversation ("The Oil Market") [Walker, Yamani: relays Yamani's concern that UK/Norway excess oil production in danger of triggering collapse in world oil price] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 26 Tu Major Energy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Peter Walker) [North Sea oil production & world oil price; proposal for Government to receive royalties in cash rather than oil] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 3 We Major Energy: Howe minute to MT ("UK Continental Shelf: Production Controls") [risk of OPEC retaliation against UK interests; ramifications of Government introducing controls on UK oil prices; political/economic arguments for controls; royalties in cash rather than kind] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 3 We Major Energy: Peter Walker PS letter to No.10 (US oil reserves and future production) [assessment, following MT/Walker meeting with Sheikh Yamani] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 7 Tu Major Energy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("UK Continental Shelf: Production Controls and Royalties") [disagreement with Peter Walker over timing & merits of move to payment of royalties in cash] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 10 Fr Major Energy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Oil Market") [analysis & forecast, following recent slide in spot market price for North Sea oil] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 30 Th Major Energy: UKE Jedda telegram 321 to FCO ("Interview with Yamani: Oil") ["assessment of the current state of the oil market and... some predictions"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jun 7 Fr Major Energy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Oil Prices") [analysis] [released Dec 2014]