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  • Privatization and Vision 2030: Report Looks at Opportunities, Challenges for Saudi Arabia’s Ambitious Plans
     

    A recently released Jadwa Investment report lays out in detail Saudi Arabia’s ambitious privatization plans as part of its Vision 2030 economic and social reform program and identifies opportunities and challenges for decision-makers. The research report, entitled “Privatization and Vision 2030” which was emailed in a note to investors by Jadwa’s head of research Dr. Fahad Alturki, […]

     
  • Report: Trump Requested Saudi Oil Support Before Iran Nuclear Decision
     

    A day before President Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal, one of his senior officials phoned key ally Saudi Arabia to ask the world’s largest oil exporter to help keep prices stable if the decision disrupted supply, Reuters reports. As Reuters reports, although the U.S. and Saudi Arabia are close allies, rarely has the United States put […]

     
  • IMF: Saudi Arabia Making ‘Good Progress’ on Vision 2030, Should Focus on Balanced Budget in 2023
     

    Saudi Arabia is making good progress in implementing Vision 2030 economic and social reforms, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in a statement late on Tuesday, as it urged the Kingdom not to increase spending and to focus on a balanced budget by 2023. “The government remains committed to wide-ranging economic and social reforms to transform the […]

     
  • Saudi Ministry of Justice Announces Launch of Alimony Fund ‘Modeled on UK’s Child Maintenance Service’
     

    Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Justice is planning to launch an alimony fund similar to the United Kingdom’s Child Maintenance Service in an attempt to “empower mothers and provide sustainable living and support, for them and their children,” the Ministry said in a press release. The alimony fund is dedicated to women who are divorced and facing difficulty […]

     
  • Tadawul IPO Pushed to ‘2019 at the Earliest’ as Kingdom Eyes MSCI Inclusion Bump
     

    Saudi Arabia is delaying the IPO of the Tadawul, the Kingdom’s stock exchange, “on hopes that a potential MSCI Inc. upgrade could boost its value,” according to Bloomberg which cited people with knowledge of the matter. The Tadawul has pushed back plans to sell shares “to 2019 at the earliest,” according to Bloomberg, because waiting until after MSCI’s […]

     
  • Saudi, Qatar Bond Issues Get Cozy; Both Oversubscribed
     

    Saudi Arabia beat out regional rival Qatar’s first bond issuance since the Gulf crisis began with its own “surprise” $11 billion raise, which drew $52 billion of orders this week, according to reports. Saudi Arabia denies that the timing of the quick-fire raise was not aimed at damaging Qatar’s issuance. The Saudi debt management office told the […]

     
  • Now West, Crown Prince Salman Meets with Tech Elite in Seattle
     

    Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met with some of the world’s most prominent technology executives in Seattle this weekend as part of his three-week long official visit to the United States. The powerful millennial has prioritized technology as part of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 social and economic reform blueprint, and has used the newly-empowered Public […]

     
  • Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman visits Harvard, MIT in Boston
     

    Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman visited Harvard University and MIT in Boston, Massachusetts over the weekend to tour two of America’s premiere higher education campuses and talk about the importance of research and entrepreneurship to Vision 2030. The visit to Boston is the second stop in a weeks long tour across the United States, his first […]

     
  • State Department Approves $1 Billion in New Military Sales to Saudi Arabia
     

    The State Department approved a possible sale of $670 million in TOW 2B (BGM-71F-Series) missiles to Saudi Arabia, according to a release from the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA). Together, with a new $300 million sale for spare vehicle parts for the Royal Saudi Land Forces Ordnance Corps, the new deals announced amount to nearly $1 billion. Defense Secretary James Mattis on […]

     
  • Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Kicks Off Two Week U.S. Visit Today with Meeting at White House
     

    Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in Washington, D.C. last night and will kick off a two week, multi-city U.S. tour with a meeting today at the White House. The Saudi embassy in Washington, D.C. issued a release providing further details on the trip, noting that in addition to meeting with President Trump […]

     

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    OPEC will keep its production ceiling steady at its "toughest ever" meeting this month, a former adviser to oil kingpin Saudi Arabia said as global crude prices hit a four-year low.

  • Saudi Oil Production
    Saudi Oil Output Steady; OPEC Sees Lower 2015 Demand For Its Oil

    The report said Saudi Arabia reported October production to OPEC of 9.69 million bpd, little changed from 9.704 million in September. This is the last monthly report before OPEC oil ministers meet in Vienna on Nov. 27 to discuss whether to respond to the drop in prices by cutting output for the first time since the financial crisis in 2008.

  • OPEC
    In New Oil Order, OPEC’s Choice Is Pricing Power or Sales 

    “We’ve not seen a turning point like this in decades,” Mike Wittner, Societe Generale’s head of oil market research in New York, said by phone yesterday. “Is OPEC going to abdicate its role in the market? If the Saudis do exactly what they’re signaling, and just let the market take care of the overproduction, then it could certainly become irrelevant.”

  • Aramco and Asia
    Aramco Said to Name New Asia Head Amid OPEC’s Share Fight

    Aramco plans $100 billion of investments to become the world’s largest refiner with capacity to process 8 million to 10 million barrels a day of crude at home and abroad. The company has refineries in South Korea and China and it’s in talks to add other plants in China, Indonesia, and Vietnam. Aramco is targeting Asia for expansion as it starts to sell chemicals from its Saudi Sadara plant, a joint venture with The Dow Chemical Co., Aramco Chief Executive Officer Khalid al-Falih said said in May in Bahrain.

  • Petrochemicals
    Sinopec Buys Saudi Yanbu Refinery Stake for $562 Million

    China Petrochemical Corp., Sinopec’s state-owned parent, signed an agreement with Aramco in January 2012 to develop a refinery in the Saudi city of Yanbu at a cost of as much as $10 billion. The 400,000 barrel-a-day plant may start this year, Saudi Aramco Chief Executive Officer Khalid al-Falih said at the time.

  • OPEC
    OPEC sees oil price fall curbing US shale oil industry

    Speaking from the London Oil&Money conference OPEC Secretary General Abdalla Salem el-Badri signalled the cartel does not have the intention of cutting its output anytime soon. OPEC also seems to expect that the decline in prices will force the US shale oil industry to reduce its pace of investments and output, which will eventually lead to a more balanced market. "I don't think 2015 will be far away from 2014 in terms of production," el-Badri remarked.

  • Industry
    Aramco Refinery With Sinopec Said to Start Hydrocracker in 2015

    Yasref, as the joint-venture refinery is known, will produce low-sulfur diesel for export and have the fuel available for sale next year, the people said. The lower the sulfur content in diesel, the cleaner it is as a transport fuel. Yasref’s diesel will meet European specifications, the people said. Yasref media officials were unable to comment immediately by phone today.

  • Global Oil Markets
    OPEC Splits on Response to Falling Oil Prices

    A split in response to falling oil prices emerged among members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries after Saudi Arabia cut its oil production sharply last month while other leading members raised their output. Saudi Arabia, the cartel's kingpin, said Wednesday it had cut its crude production by about 400,000 barrels a day in August. An industry official said the drop was tied to lower exports to the kingdom's core Asian markets.

  • OPEC
    OPEC Says World Will Need Less of Its Oil Next Year

    OPEC said demand for its crude oil will be lower than expected next year, with a surge in U.S. output potentially bringing its production to levels not seen since the past decade. In its monthly oil-market report, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries said it had lowered the estimate of demand for its crude by 200,000 barrels a day for 2015 and by the same amount for this year. As a result, markets will need 300,000 barrels a day less of OPEC crude next year, it said.