Analysis

SAUDI ENERGY POLICY

Saudi Arabia Reduces Crude Exports, Refining More at Home

• SUSTG Team
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• 6. 19. 2015

Saudi Arabia reduced crude oil exports in April but used record supplies domestically for a burgeoning refining industry, Bloomberg reports.

• Daesh

  

  Fahad Nazer: ‘ISIS Will Fail in Saudi Arabia’

  SUSTG Team  |  6. 16. 2015

  "The terrorist group known as the Islamic State (ISIS) has its eyes set on Saudi Arabia," writes Gulf analyst Fahad Nazer. "ISIS will not succeed in Saudi Arabia as it has in Syria or Iraq or in the way some al-Qa‘ida affiliates have in Yemen, Somalia, northern Mali, or Nigeria."

• KING ABDULAZIZ CENTER FOR NATIONAL DIALOGUE

  

  Video Released by King Abdulaziz Center for National Dialogue Asks Youth to Rethink Biases

  SUSTG Team  |  6. 12. 2015

  A powerful video campaign released by the King Abdulaziz Center for National Dialogue asks Saudi youth to rethink their biases.

• Yemen

  

  Is it Crunch Time for Saudi Arabia’s Yemen Operation?

  SUSTG Team  |  6. 11. 2015

  In an analysis in Reuters, Angus McDowall writes that following Saudi Arabia's inability to significantly tip the scales in Yemen with airstrikes, the limited options for Saudi Arabia's leadership come with high risks.

• Economy

  

  NCB: Saudi real GDP to grow 3.4 percent in 2015

  SUSTG Team  |  6. 10. 2015

  Saudi Arabia will face a moderate business cycle during 2015 and 2016, growing around 3% in real terms, the National Commercial Bank (NCB) said.

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  Level of Turmoil in Middle East at ‘Highest Point in 50 years’, Gulf Expert Writes in Politico Magazine

  SUSTG Team  |  6. 5. 2015

• Security

  

  Cash Reward Offered for Wanted Men Connected to Mosque Bombings

  SUSTG Team  |  6. 4. 2015

  Saudi Arabia's government offered a $1.3m cash reward for men connected to bombings at mosques in the past two weeks, saying that "[a]nyone dealing with the wanted men will be held accountable."

• Saudi Exports

  

  Saudi Arabia’s total exports in 2014 dropped by 8.9 percent

  SUSTG Team  |  5. 29. 2015

  Imports into Saudi Arabia rose by 3.3 percent to SR651.88bn ($173.8bn), but exports fell by 8.9 percent in 2014, new statistics show.

• Economy

  

  Photos: King Salman Urges More ‘Support to Investment and Investors in the Kingdom’ at High-Level Business Gathering

  SUSTG Team  |  5. 28. 2015

  King Salman addressed presidents and members of the Council of Saudi Chambers of Commerce, CEOs and directors of banks, businessmen, senior officials of the Ministries of Commerce and Industry and Labor, as well as SAGIA and SAMA officials at at Al-Salam Palace.

• U.S.-Saudi

  

  Saudi Arabia Seeks Sikorsky MH-60R Helicopters, First Military Sale Request from a Gulf State Since Camp David Summit

  SUSTG Team  |  5. 22. 2015

  The Royal Saudi Navy is seeking to purchase 10 Sikorsky MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopters as part of its naval expansion program, the first military purchase since the U.S.-GCC summit last week in Washington.