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Saudis Increasing Riyadh Water Supply
- April 6,2012
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- SUSTG Team
With the bulk of Saudi Arabia’s drinking water coming from desalination plants, the country’s sky-rocketing population growth puts enormous demand on water supply. Arab News reports that a new desalination plant in the Eastern Province is gearing up to go online. When it is producing, it will nearly double the amount of water flowing into […]
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Internet in the Middle East Still Short of Its Potential
- April 5,2012
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- SUSTG Team
Last week’s third ArabNet conference for digital entrepreneurs in the MENA region was, by the standard of these things, a modest affair. But nonetheless it showed how the regional digital economy has grown, and how it is poised to take off. As one commentator said: “Jordan for the talent, Lebanon for the creativity, Egypt for […]
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Saudi to maintain oil supply if U.S. draws stocks
- April 3,2012
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- SUSTG Team
Saudi Arabia is likely to maintain high oil production in the event consumer countries release emergency stocks, but it will not seek to lure buyers for more oil by discounting its crude, industry sources said. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Saturday in Riyadh sought an assurance from Saudi King Abdullah that the kingdom […]
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Hillary Clinton: Time running out for diplomacy with Iran
- March 31,2012
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- SUSTG Team
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made clear Saturday that time is running out for diplomacy over Iran’s nuclear program and said talks aimed at preventing Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon would resume in mid-April. With speculation over a possible U.S. or Israel military attack adding urgency to the next round of discussions […]
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Water Brings Green to Saudi Arabia
- March 30,2012
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- SUSTG Team
Over the last two-and-a-half decades, a series of NASA’s Landsat satellites have captured these pictures of the growing agriculture industry in the northern reaches of the Syrian Desert in Saudi Arabia, not far from Jordan. Farmers use a technique called center-pivot irrigation to bring up water from below the desert floor to grow wheat and […]
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U.S. Might Have More Oil Than Saudi Arabia, But…
- March 30,2012
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- SUSTG Team
People are often confused about the overall extent of U.S. oil reserves. Some claim that the U.S. has hundreds of billions or even trillions of barrels of oil waiting to be produced if bureaucrats will simply stop blocking development. In fact, in a recent debate between Republican candidates contending for Gabrielle Giffords’ recently vacated House seat, one candidate […]
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Five short stories from World Energy Outlook
- March 29,2012
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- SUSTG Team
The IEA’s World Energy Outlook (WEO) is an annual tradition, the result of much work, data analysis and presentation. A formative volume is produced for all to read and digest, but few of us have the time to do so in the detail required. As such we rely to some extent on IEA presentations and summary documents. […]
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Saudi Arabia will act to lower soaring oil prices
- March 29,2012
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- SUSTG Team
In an op-ed in the Financial Times, Ali Al Naimi writes, “High international oil prices are bad news. Bad for Europe, bad for the US, bad for emerging economies and bad for the world’s poorest nations. A period of prolonged high prices is bad for all oil producing nations, including Saudi Arabia, and they are […]
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“Out in the Blue” Part 9 of Video Series “Distant Arabia”
- March 28,2012
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- SUSTG Team
In this clip excerpted with permission from the documentary The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power based on the book of the same name by Daniel Yergin, the story of Tom Barger’s first journey to Saudi Arabia is related through his movies and letters. The complete story is told in Barger’s book […]
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GE wins $200mn power plant conversion contract in Saudi Arabia
- March 27,2012
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- SUSTG Team
GE said it has received a contract for nearly $200 million to supply steam turbine technology, power generation services and distributed control systems for the conversion of Saudi Electricity Co.’s (SEC) PP10 power plant from simple to combined-cycle operation. The project will add 1,300 MW to the plant’s capacity. “The conversion to combined-cycle operation is […]
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Anti-ISIS Campaign: SyriaSputtering Start to US Military’s Training of Syrian Rebels
Fewer than 100 Syrian rebels are currently being trained by the U.S. military to fight the Islamic State group, a tiny total for a sputtering program with a stated goal of producing 5,400 fighters a year.
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EntrepreneurshipHigh-tech startups to get up to $2M from new Saudi fund
Since 2010 the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology has invested in more than 30 projects through its Seed Fund. These cash injections have provided the startups launching from the university with up to $200,000 each. Five years on, KAUST is looking to have an impact beyond KAUST and even outside the kingdom. And with this new vision comes a new fund.
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Saudi - RussiaWhat Would A Saudi-Russian Partnership Mean For World Energy?
Given that U.S. and EU sanctions limit the transfer of new oil and gas technology to Russian state oil firms, the logical conclusion would be that Russia would seek Saudi technology related to enhanced oil and gas recovery and advanced drilling, especially for use in the older fields in West Siberia. With a growing list of global research centers in Beijing, Houston, Aberdeen, Massachusetts and others, Saudi Arabia’s national oil company Aramco is the biggest global investor in new oil and gas technologies.
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Extremism: RehabilitationSaunas and art therapy: Rehab for convicted Saudi extremists
"What is the secret? It is that the ideas we carry cannot be cured by weapons only. It also requires an ideological cure," the 30-year-old says of the facility, which in many ways serves as the center-piece of Saudi Arabia's counter-terrorism strategy.
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Counter-TerrorismBahrain thwarts anti-Saudi plot
Bahrain said on Thursday it had seized explosives and bomb-making materials planned for use in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia in what it said was an attempt to use its borders as a base for attacking targets in the region.
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Saudi-ChinaSaudi Arabia and China Drift Apart on Oil
One country looms over Saudi Arabia’s current pump-till-it-slumps oil strategy: China. Resurgent U.S. oil output has raised global supply. But China has long been the gorilla on the demand side, accounting for 48% of the increase in global oil consumption in the past decade.
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Historic Site: DiriyahThe Bujairi Quarter: Gateway to historic Saudi Arabia
On the northwestern outskirts of Riyadh sits Diriyah, a site steeped in history. This is where, in 1744, King Mohammad bin Abdulaziz founded the first Saudi State, after forming an alliance with imam Mohammad bin Abdulwahab. Today, a transformation is underway, which with the April opening of the Bujairi Quarter has passed a major checkpoint on the road to completion.
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Anti-ISIS Campaign: AntiquitiesIslamic State isn’t just destroying ancient artifacts — it’s selling them
Behind the scenes, though, the group’s looting has become so systematic that the Islamic State has incorporated the practice into the structure of its self- declared caliphate, granting licenses for digging at historic sites through a department of “precious resources.”
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Saudi - IsraelReport: Israelis and Saudis Reveal Secret Talks to Thwart Iran
It was not a typical Washington think-tank event. No questions were taken from the audience. After an introduction, there was a speech in Arabic from Anwar Majed Eshki, a retired Saudi general and ex-adviser to Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the former Saudi ambassador to the U.S. Then Dore Gold, a former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations who is slotted to be the next director general of Israel's foreign ministry, gave a speech in English.
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U.S. Foreign PolicyPerspective: The Middle East Is Falling Apart
As news out of the Middle East goes from bad to worse—the humanitarian disaster in Yemen, Libya’s disintegration, the fall of Ramadi to ISIL, take your pick—the inevitable American tendency, especially in the political season, is to attribute all these developments to U.S. policy choices.
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