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PDF 80 Jan 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Howell PS letter to No.10 (BNOC: oil prices proposal) ["2-tier price if all the African producers increase their prices"; MT requests further advice on arbitration] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("UKCS crude oil prices") [MT goes against Howe advice to avoid risking arbitration & potential ensuing higher prices] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("North Sea oil output") ["case for slowing down the oil flow in... [coming] years to spread the benefits further into the future...More immediately, however, the lower production forecasts would have implications for the trade deficit and the tax flow from North Sea operations"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 Feb 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Howell minute to MT ("Oil prices and import targets") [Iranian prices; UKCS prices; import targets] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 Feb 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Howell, Carrington, Nott) ["Oil prices"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 Apr 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Howell letter to Gilmour ("BNOC oil prices") ["we have to recognise that BNOC cannot withhold full market prices to their suppliers. Nor can we expect unreasonable delay in setting prices"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 May 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Howell letter to Gilmour ("BNOC oil prices") [rising in line with other countries] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 Dec 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Howell PS letter to No.10 ("Heavy fuel oil prices") [speaking note as requested by MT following meeting with Howell] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 81 Feb 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("UK oil policy: refinery and disposal strategy") [call for interdepartmental review of North Sea pricing policy & opposition to creation of additonal reserve producition capacity: both concerns being in relation to PSBR] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 81 Jun 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: No.10 minute to MT ("BNOC prices") [proposed reduction] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 81 Jun 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Howell letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("North Sea oil prices") [MT supports BNOC's proposed reduction in prices] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 81 Oct 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Lawson letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("North Sea oil pricing policy") [working group report] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: MT letter to Gordon Wilson MP (world oil prices) ["[we] will all benefit from lower oil prices through the consequent reduction in inflation and increase in real income"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Oil prices in the long term") ["I attach a study, written by an interdepartmental group of officials... I think this is a useful document"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Jan 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Lawson letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("BNOC oil prices") ["BNOC has to take a decision on its price for North Sea Oil... we are trying to... [follow] the market... not [lead] it... maintain oil sales... on a falling market ... avoid precipitating a downward price spiral"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: No.10 minute to MT ("Oil prices") ["Lawson is in little doubt that the [Kuwaiti] objective will be to put pressure on us with regard to North Sea oil prices"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (meetings between OPEC and non-OPEC producers) [MT: "No need. We do not want to form what would effectively be an enlarged OPEC. No need for any meeting"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson) ["Oil": OPEC/prices] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Parsons minute to Cole ("Oil") ["I am deeply suspicious of [consumer/producer] dialogues of the kind which the French seem to like. History shows that they are only attractive to the weaker side"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: UKE Jeddah telegram to FCO ("Oil prices") ["the King was most anxious to stress... that the break-up of OPEC would do damage to the whole world"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Oil price") [meeting to discuss response to Sheikh Yamani/OPEC proposition] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 83 Mar 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Pym, Lawson, Middleton, Walters, Couzens, Evans) ["Oil prices"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 83 Mar 12 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 83 Mar 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: UKE Caracas telegram to FCO ("Venezuela/OPEC and the financial situation") ["a price collapse would be a disaster for Venezuela"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 83 Mar 19 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 83 Mar 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 83 Mar 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 83 Mar 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 83 Mar 27 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: UKE Kuwait telegram to FCO ("Oil") [record of Hurd conversation with Kuwaiti Oil Minister: OPEC/Nigeria/USSR] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 83 Mar 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: UKE Kuwait telegram to FCO ("Oil prices") [Nigeria; OPEC] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Apr 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: UKHC Lagos telegram to FCO ("Oil prices") [UK High Commissioner conversation with Dikko, Nigerian Minister for Transport] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Apr 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: UKHC Lagos telegram to FCO ("Oil prices") [Dikko, Nigerian Minister for Transport reply to Lawson] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Apr 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 83 Apr 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Department of Energy record of conversation (oil prices) [Lawson, Mana Saeed al Otaiba] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Jun 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Department of Energy record of conversation (oil prices) [Walker, Mana Saeed al Otaiba] [declassified Aug 2013]
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Documents lie at the core of this website, each one dated and sorted chronologically (by default) in search results. Most are images in PDF format of original paper documents scanned or filmed for the site. There also transcripts of speeches and interviews, press articles, photos, videos, and more. The document database contains tens of thousands of items and permits complex searching.

Files are multi-page PDFs from which most of the documents on the site are selected. All of Mrs Thatcher’s official files from No.10 are available in full on this site (paper copies are stored at the National Archives in the series PREM19), as well as most of those of Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson as Chancellor (stored at TNA as series T639 and T640).

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