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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
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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 Feb 24 Th Major 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]
80 Jan 21 Mo Major 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]
82 Dec 23 Th Major 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]
81 Feb 6 Fr Major 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]
80 Jan 17 Th Major 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]
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: 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 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]
81 Jun 10 We Major Energy: Howell letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("North Sea oil prices") [MT supports BNOC's proposed reduction in prices] [declassified Aug 2013]
80 Apr 29 Tu Major 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]
80 May 23 Fr Major Energy: Howell letter to Gilmour ("BNOC oil prices") [rising in line with other countries] [declassified Aug 2013]
80 Feb 5 Tu Major Energy: Howell minute to MT ("Oil prices and import targets") [Iranian prices; UKCS prices; import targets] [declassified Aug 2013]
80 Dec 23 Tu Major Energy: Howell PS letter to No.10 ("Heavy fuel oil prices") [speaking note as requested by MT following meeting with Howell] [declassified Aug 2013]
80 Jan 4 Fr Major 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]
83 Jan 28 Fr Major 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]
81 Oct 6 Tu Major Energy: Lawson letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("North Sea oil pricing policy") [working group report] [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 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]