Analysis

• OIL

  Saudi Arabia will act to lower soaring oil prices

  SUSTG Team  |  3. 29. 2012

  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."

• OIL

  “Out in the Blue” Part 9 of Video Series “Distant Arabia”

  SUSTG Team  |  3. 28. 2012

  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.

• POWER

  GE wins $200mn power plant conversion contract in Saudi Arabia

  SUSTG Team  |  3. 27. 2012

  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.

• SOCIETY

  10 Saudi women take fight against breast cancer to Mount Everest

  SUSTG Team  |  3. 24. 2012

  Princess Reema bint Bandar bin Sultan and the Zahra Breast Cancer Association launched a campaign on Tuesday where 10 Saudi women will climb to the Mount Everest base camp in May.

• SOCIETY

  Saudi Arabia Jeddah Weddings

  SUSTG Team  |  3. 23. 2012

  I felt like it would be a good idea to put this info up in a post and to get some feedback. The following are some of the traditional/customary things that might happen and how a man and a woman get hitched.

• FINANCE

  Saudi Market Opens Up, but Gradually

  SUSTG Team  |  3. 22. 2012

  Regulators of the Saudi stock exchange, Tadawul, the largest in the Arab world, are fine-tuning the draft of a law on Qualified Foreign Investors in the hope of attracting institutional fund managers to buy shares directly in the $400 billion market.

• WATER

  Opportunities in Water Production

  SUSTG Team  |  3. 20. 2012

  Saudi Arabia will increase by almost double its desalinated water production over the next three years according to the governor of the Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) who said the daily water production will rise from the current 3.3 million cubic meters to about 6 million.

• COMMUNICATIONS

  Saudi Aramco Rethinks Global Communications Strategy

  SUSTG Team  |  3. 19. 2012

  Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil company, is rethinking its global communications strategy as it undertakes an ambitious corporate transformation.

• FINANCE

  Top-10 ranking in sight for Tadawul

  SUSTG Team  |  3. 16. 2012

  Saudi Arabia’s stock exchange is expected to quickly rank among the world’s 10 most active markets if it opens up to international investors.