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  • What Will Iran Do As the US Negotiates a Withdrawal from Afghanistan?

    Iran has worked to increase its soft power resonance in Afghanistan, through foreign direct investment and the development of infrastructure linked to communications and transportation. It’s also spent years building ties to key stakeholders in that country, including groups with ethnic, cultural, and religious ties to Iran, as well as the Taliban.

  • More Saudi Arabian crude oil exports for April, as promised

    Saudi Arabia is not expected to change its policy any time soon, as cargoes have been fixed for weeks ahead. There has also been an interesting increase in shipments of cargoes heading to the USA. The TD1 route, for crude oil carried on VLCCs from the Middle East Gulf to the US, could experience a revival after experiencing a sharp decline driven by the increase of US crude oil production.

  • New renewable energy capacity hit record levels in 2019

    Almost three-quarters of new electricity generation capacity built in 2019 uses renewable energy, representing an all-time record. New data from the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena) shows solar, wind and other green technologies now provide more than one-third of the world’s power, marking another record.

  • Former Libya Prime Minister dies from coronavirus

    Mahmoud Jibril, the former head of the Libyan rebel government that overthrew longtime ruler Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, has died from the coronavirus, his party said. Jibril, 68, died on Sunday in Cairo where he had been hospitalised for two weeks, said Khaled al-Mrimi, secretary of the National Forces Alliance, founded by Jibril in 2012. He had been admitted to the Ganzouri Specialised Hospital in Cairo on March 21 after suffering from cardiac arrest and three days later tested positive for coronavirus, hospital director Hisham Wagdy said.

  • Exxon chops spending by 30%

    Exxon Mobil Corp on Tuesday throttled back a multi-year investment in shale, LNG and deep water oil production and will cut planned capital spending by 30% this year as the coronavirus pandemic saps energy demand and oil prices.

  • Trump Says Free Market Will Curb U.S. Oil Output ‘Automatically’

    President Donald Trump gave the strongest signal yet the U.S. might not join Saudi Arabia, Russia and other major producers in coordinated oil-production cuts, even as plunging crude prices put thousands of American shale jobs at risk.

  • Saudi Arabia shortlists bidders for 1.47GW of solar, includes 2.7c/kWh bid

    Successful shortlisted bidders included EDF, Total, ACWA Power, Masdar, First Solar, Marubeni, and Al Blagha Holding. Projects awaiting developers are the 600 MW Al-Faisaliah PV IPP, the 300MW Jeddah PV IPP, the 300MW Rabigh PV IPP, the 200MW Qurrayat PV IPP, the 50MW Madinah PV IPP, and the 20MW Rafha PV IPP.

  • Spanish company to build second largest desalination plant in Saudi Arabia

    Spanish company Abengoa, in consortium with SEPCOIII is set to construct a 600,000m3 / day desalination plant in Saudi Arabia; the second largest plant with reverse osmosis technology in the country.

  • In the Big OPEC++ Output Deal, Who’s In and Who’s Out?

    A deal between the world’s oil powers is far from certain, as is U.S. participation in talks. Here’s a look at the latest positions, with OPEC data compiled by Bloomberg and non-OPEC from the International Energy Agency.

  • Saudi to build 20,000 houses on Eastern coast

    Saudi Arabia has launched six projects to build nearly 20,000 houses on its Eastern coast as part of an ongoing programme to provide housing to citizens in all areas of the Gulf Kingdom, according to the Housing Ministry. The six projects near the port of Dammam comprise town houses, apartments and villas at affordable prices, the Ministry said on its website.