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Petroleum Corporation (GPC), on finalizing the Arabic version of
the Esso agreement for submission to the State Council. Mefferd
and Doss worked on the first draft of the Arabic version together
in Egypt, in which Article III(f)(6) of such draft the word
"minha" (meaning "therefrom"), see infra p. 23, does not appear.
Mefferd then returned to Houston, leaving Doss to review the
Arabic version with Rakshy representing EGPC. Doss communicated
changes to Mefferd by telex, but assured Mefferd that no
substantive changes had been made. Mefferd did not notice that
the word "minha" appeared after the word "deduct" in Article
III(f)(6) of the final Arabic version he reviewed.
The first step for obtaining approval of the Esso agreement
involved EGPC's submitting it to the State Council. Mansour was
the only EGPC lawyer presenting concession agreements to the
State Council on EGPC's behalf.
Also in 1973, the ARE and EGPC entered into a concession
agreement with Mobil Exploration Egypt, Inc. (Mobil).
Negotiations for a production sharing agreement occurred
simultaneously with the Esso negotiations. On May 10, 1973, an
agreement was initialed in English on behalf of Mobil and EGPC.
At EGPC's request, the Mobil agreement included Article III(g),
identical to Article III(f)(6) of the Esso agreement. Mobil
contemplated, by Article III(g), that EGPC would be entitled to
deduct royalties paid to the Egyptian Government, and Egyptian
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