The 1,500MW solar steam facility, to be developed at MA’ADEN’s Alumina refinery, aims to help MA’ADEN achieve sustainability goals by reducing carbon emissions by over 600,000 tons annually. This represents more than a 50 per cent carbon footprint reduction in MA’ADEN’s Alumina refinery and four per cent of MA’ADEN’s overall …
Read More »Saudis Cut Oil to China while Meeting most Asian Requests
Saudi Arabia will provide some Chinese buyers with less crude than they asked for next month, while fulfilling requests from many other customers in Asia after OPEC+ pledged to speed up production hikes. Japan, South Korea, Thailand, and India will get the oil volumes they had sought, with some even …
Read More »OPEC+ Words Contrast with Saudi Action of Rising Oil Prices
The gap between what is said in crude oil markets and what actually happens in the physical trading world has been illustrated by a commitment by the OPEC+ group to boost output being followed by its top member, Saudi Arabia, raising prices. Producer group OPEC+ said after meeting last week …
Read More »Saudi Arabia Set to Raise its Oil Prices to Asia
The tentative reopening in China and strong Asian refining margins could prompt Saudi Arabia to raise the official selling prices of all the crude grades it will be selling in July in its key market, Asia, six refining sources told Reuters in a survey on Monday. Saudi Aramco, the oil …
Read More »Saudi Arabia Says it has Done all it can for the Oil Market
Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister said there’s nothing more the kingdom can do to tame oil markets, implying that the world’s biggest crude exporter has no plan to accelerate its gradual production increases. “As far as we are aware there is no shortfall of oil,” Prince Faisal bin Farhan said, speaking …
Read More »UAE and Saudi Ministers Oppose NOPEC Bill, Saying it will Raise Oil Prices
Senior OPEC ministers opposed a new US bill aimed at regulating production, saying such measures would lead to more chaos in energy markets. UAE Energy Minister Suhail Al Mazroui told CNBC that OPEC is being unfairly attacked over the energy crisis and that actions by US lawmakers to disrupt an …
Read More »Putin, Saudi Prince Vow to Continue OPEC+ Cooperation
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman discussed this weekend their countries’ cooperation in the OPEC+ oil production pact in their second telephone call since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Russia is a key partner to OPEC’s largest producer and de facto leader, Saudi Arabia, in the …
Read More »Saudi Arabia Looks to Position NEOM as a Hydrogen Leader
At the first-ever conference devoted exclusively to carbon-free hydrogen in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), participants looked in depth at the technical and financial complexities of getting major projects off the ground. They covered projects announced by various consortiums worldwide, all in early-stage development. An exception appeared in …
Read More »Iran, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait Shared Gas Field must be Renegotiated
An expert on energy said that all the three countries of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Iran can exploit the Arash joint gas field but due to the possible problems, they must trilaterally determine the borders. As regards Saudi Arabia and Kuwait’s joint program on the Arash joint gas field, Ali …
Read More »Some Indian Refiners Set to Cut May Saudi Oil, Snap up Russian Barrels
At least two Indian refiners plan to buy less Saudi oil than usual in May, after the kingdom raised the official selling price (OSP) to record highs for Asia, two sources said on Wednesday, as India increases purchases of cheap Russian crude. India, the world’s third biggest oil importer and …
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