Speculation is rife on the course the showdown between Saudi Arabia and Iran will take in the coming days. This is especially so after media reports emerged to allege the presence of links between Iran and the attacks on oil...
Western intelligence sources revealed that Qatar had been informed in advance of Iran’s alleged attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil facility, aimed at disrupting Saudi’s oil giant Saudi Aramco’s plan to list its shares (initial public offering/IPO). Qatar did not alert...
The Qatari state-owned, Qatar Petroleum, has announced the successful operation of a gigantic refinery, in which it owns a major stake, north of Cairo, the capital of Egypt. Qatar Petroleum owns 38.1% of the shares of the Arabian Refinery Company,...
The past few months have seen a fair share of angry citizens across the globe, from protests over election rigging in Bolivia to massive agitations in Hong Kong. In that backdrop, it doesn’t come off as a surprise when Iranians...
With their back to the wall and having been abandoned by the Trump administration’s sudden withdrawal decision, Syrian Kurds and their main military arm, the SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces) have been left stranded between some bitter choices. A growing sense...
Egypt and the east Libyan government are discussing ways of expanding cooperation in the field of oil production, with expectations for Egyptian state-owned petroleum companies to start operating in Libya soon. During a visit to Cairo in late October, Chairman...
The latest edition of the Future Investment Initiative became a grand affair as business communities from around the world flocked to Riyadh, unlike last year when the Saudi flagship conference was largely boycotted in the wake of Jamal Khashoggi’s brutal...
Nigeria has closed its borders to all neighbouring countries to curtail its dependence on oil. “Don’t give a cent to anybody to import food into the country,” President Muhammadu Buhari said in a move to bring about “steady improvement in...
The escalation of the dispute related to the strait of Hormuz shows how vulnerable many of today’s oil routes are. What oil shipping routes and bottlenecks could become hotspots in the future? The dispute of oil shipments through the Strait...
The agreement of five Caspian states, for the governing of the Caspian Sea, has been touted as a very important deal for the region. After all, it moved to end the disagreements between some of the signatories. Yet, one year...
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