Analysis

• WATER

  

  Water Brings Green to Saudi Arabia

  SUSTG Team  |  3. 30. 2012

  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.

• OIL

  U.S. Might Have More Oil Than Saudi Arabia, But…

  SUSTG Team  |  3. 30. 2012

  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.

• ENERGY

  Five short stories from World Energy Outlook

  SUSTG Team  |  3. 29. 2012

  The IEA’s World Energy Outlook (WEO) is an annual tradition, the result of much work, data analysis and presentation.

• 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.