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Saudi Arabia’s Unknown Shale Potential is Yet Another Variable in Shifting Global Energy Landscape
- November 12,2015
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- SUSTG Team
The impact of the rise of shale production, particularly in the United States, has radically changed the trajectory of the global energy landscape. Only in the last year, when Saudi Arabia and OPEC decided to boost production rates to mute the impact of shale and regain market share, has conventional energy regained top-dog status in […]
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IEA 2015 Report: Oil Likely to Rise to $80 by 2020, but Risks for ‘Dependency’ on Low-Costs Producers Heightened
- November 11,2015
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- SUSTG Team
Consumers stand to benefit from an extended period of lower oil prices, but a prolonged period would “trigger energy-security concerns by heightening reliance on a small number of low-cost producers, or risk a sharp rebound in price if investment falls short,” the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in its 2015 World Energy Outlook publication (WEO-2015). […]
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Saudi Arabia Submits Climate Plan in Advance of Paris Summit
- November 10,2015
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- SUSTG Team
In advance of the November 30 – December 11, 2015 World Climate Summit in Paris, France, Saudi Arabia has submitted a plan to reduce it’s expected output of carbon emissions by 130 million tons by 2030. Reuters and Al-Arabiya reported that Saudi Arabia was the last of the Group of 20 major economies to submit […]
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Saudi Stock Market’s Key Players Undertake Roadshow to Promote Investment in Saudi Arabia’s Tadawul
- November 9,2015
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- SUSTG Team
Key players in Saudi Arabia’s stock market have embarked on a “global roadshow” abroad to show off the attractiveness of the investment climate in Saudi Arabia, according to reports, with officials meeting potential investors in New York, London, and Singapore. Saudi Arabia’s Tadawul opened to wider foreign investment in July 2015, but it did so […]
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King Salman Tops Region’s Most Powerful in Latest Forbes List following Eventful First Year
- November 6,2015
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- Lucien Zeigler
Forbes magazine has named Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques HRH King Salman as the most powerful personality in the Arab world in the magazine’s most recent list for 2015. Russian President Vladimir Putin (No. 1) takes the top spot out of 73 on Forbes’s seventh annual ranking of “The World’s Most Powerful People.” In a curious decision by […]
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Uber Eyes Fast-Growing MENA Markets for $250m Expansion
- November 5,2015
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- SUSTG Team
Uber Technologies Inc. is investing $250 million to expand in the Middle East and North Africa, which have some of the ride-sharing service’s fastest-growing markets, Bloomberg reports. Uber is already in Saudi Arabia, and the ride-sharing app is having a significant impact on the transportation economy there. And Uber is also making a social impact. Since […]
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Long Saudi Arabia’s Third Rail, Energy Subsidies May be Targeted to Address Fiscal Challenges
- November 4,2015
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- Lucien Zeigler
With shrinking assets and a growing budget imbalance, Saudi Arabia is reportedly eying cuts to its domestic energy subsidy program, long a third rail for Saudi domestic politics. Although a reduction in energy subsidies could help the government balance its budget, the subsidies may be challenging politically. “On paper, ditching subsidies would close around two-thirds of […]
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Al-Jubeir: Yemen’s War in the ‘Final Stage’; But Victory May Still Prove Elusive
- November 3,2015
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- SUSTG Team
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir said that the Saudi-led coalition battling the Houthi rebels in Yemen is entering its final stages. “I am confident that the Yemeni conflict has entered its final stage, and I’m optimistic,” Al-Jubeir said. “There are indications that the war in Yemen is entering a final phase. The legitimate government […]
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Consumers in Saudi Arabia Unaffected by Slump in Oil Price, Government Fiscal Policy Shifts
- November 2,2015
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- SUSTG Team
Consumers in Saudi Arabia are thus far reportedly feeling few effects of the fall in oil prices on the broader Saudi economy, Bloomberg reports, though the government is taking measures to curb spending and adjust its fiscal policy to new realities. “It’s Saudi policy in action,” writes Bloomberg. “When the revenue slows down, as it’s doing […]
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Ahead of Critical Syrian Peace Summit, Saudi Arabia Looks to ‘Test’ Iran on Commitment to Peace
- October 29,2015
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- SUSTG Team
Vienna, Austria will play host to a crucial meeting on Friday on the future of Syria and international efforts to end the bloody 4-year civil war that has left hundreds of thousands dead and has served as a breeding ground for Daesh, or the self-described ISIS. For the first time, all the main powers with […]
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Saudis Start to Unleash Wave of Crude
Saudi Arabia has made good on its pledge to ramp up oil exports in April, with a first wave of crude already on its way toward Europe and the U.S., a clear sign the oil price war remains in full swing. The kingdom has loaded several of the supertankers it hired earlier this month to boost its ability to increase exports, according to ship-tracking data. In addition, Riyadh has used the last few weeks to shuttle large amounts of crude into storage in Egypt, a stepping stone to the European market.
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Trend Micro partners with CyberX to drive Saudi Arabia’s cybersecurity awareness
Showing the strong need for cybersecurity, the Kingdom ranked as the most-attacked GCC country for malware and banking malware in 2019, with Trend Micro’s 2019 Security Roundup Report recording 2,352,570 malware attacks and 4,731 banking malware attacks.
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Mixed Bag of Star Saudi First-Quarter Stocks
The top five gainers in Riyadh this year include a small insurer, a plastic producer, a supermarkets owner, an education company and a hospital operator. They don’t exactly boast a track record of consistent success between them: the first four haven’t broken into the top five in any quarter since 2016, while the last has just made its market debut.
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Saudi leader of Muslim World League: Interfaith partnerships during pandemic ‘religious, moral duty’
He said that “suspending umrah [pilgrimage to Mecca] was a difficult decision” but that “Muslims in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere have understood this decision and overwhelmingly backed it,” adding that Muslim community leaders and worshippers worldwide understand the “imperative to protect human life.”
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Saudi Arabia Records 3rd Virus Death, 3 Cities Implement Curfew Starting 3 p.m.
The number of coronavirus cases in Saudi Arabia reached 1,012 on Thursday after authorities announced 112 new infections, most of them in the capital Riyadh and Makkah.
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Yemen’s warring parties back U.N. call for truce
Yemen’s warring parties welcomed a United Nations call for an immediate truce on Thursday as the country entered its sixth year of a conflict that has unleashed a humanitarian crisis, rendering it more vulnerable to any coronavirus outbreak. A Saudi-led military coalition said late on Wednesday that it backed the Yemeni government’s acceptance of the U.N. appeal. Their foe, the Iran-aligned Houthi movement, welcomed that stance but said it wants to see implementation on the ground.
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U.S.-Saudi Oil Cartel Not a Good Idea, API CEO Mike Sommers Says: Video
Mike Sommers, American Petroleum Institute chief executive officer, says he'd be against the U.S. and Saudi Arabia forming a new oil cartel.
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Saudi Social Development Bank launches $3.2bn fund to support start-ups and SMEs
The Saudi Social Development Bank, with the support of the National Development Fund, has launched a program to support owners of small and emerging enterprises in promising and priority sectors, as well as low-income families, the Saudi Press Agency reported. It is doing so by allocating an additional budget of SR12 billion ($3.19 billion) to help mitigate the expected financial and economic impacts of the fight against coronavirus.
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VLCC rates surge as Saudi Bahri charters 14 tankers ahead of Aramco output hike | S&P Global Platts
Bahri is one of the world's largest tanker companies with its own fleet of 42 VLCCs, but with Saudi Arabia stepping up output, it will need more tankers to store and deliver this output to prospective buyers, including refineries in the US, sources said.
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Saudis in VLCC chartering spree as oil war escalates
The kingdom’s national shipping arm Bahri provisionally booked at least 10 VLCCs, paying freight costs that were as much as 10 times more than average earnings on Monday, according to fixtures posted by Tankers International.
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