Sentences with phrase «saudi oil policy»

Saudi oil policy reversed course after Saudi Aramco technocrat Khalid al - Falih took over as energy minister, shifting from a market share strategy to active market management.

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Saudi Arabia, in the midst of transforming its economy and poised for a public offering of its state - owned oil company, could be vulnerable to Federal Reserve policy, observers say.

I mean, if demand doesn't grow, and industry cost cuts are 20 %, and we don't have a war with Ukraine, and Saudi Arabia doesn't change its oil policy, and Libya maybe comes back online, and Nigeria doesn't blow up — yeah, we'll probably be at $ 50.

However, HSBC notes that not only will new ministers not change Saudi's stance on oil, they'll also leave policy around Saudi Arabia's currency, the riyal, largely unchanged.

OPEC and its partners meet in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Friday, with the 14 - member oil cartel then set to reconvene on June 22 to review to its oil production policy.

Saudi Arabia is the world's second - largest oil producer and single biggest oil exporter, so any development that might alert investors that the kingdom's production levels or oil policy could be disrupted has historically had a profound effect on prices.

Nevertheless, major aspects of policy remained unclear, including details of a planned $ 300 billion privatization program that is to include the sale of a 5 percent stake in oil giant Saudi Aramco.

Additionally, domestic concerns persist for Saudi Arabian stocks, including the outlook for oil prices and their impact on fiscal policy, he said.

As the undisputed leader of the oil cartel, Saudi policy on oil supply matters immensely to these markets.

Saudi Arabia is likely to continue its policy of maintaining high crude production, which keeps oil prices from rebounding until high - cost producers like U.S. shale frackers curtail output, Kilduff said.

But in a major shift away from the previous Saudi - led policy of maintaining production to squeeze high - cost US shale - oil producers, OPEC countries agreed to target a lower level of 32.5 — 33.0 million barrels a day, although there was some skepticism about the absence of details on which members would curb output and by how much, which were delayed until the next meeting in November.

First, Bacevich underscores that U.S. policy in the Middle East was significantly set by FDR when in 1945 he promised military protection to the Saudis if they would guarantee an unlimited flow of oil under U.S. control.

City's youth policy has suffered in recent seasons thanks to the arrival of Saudi Arabian oil money.

If we get a significant updraft in the price of oil, and Saudi production policy has not changed, you might want to sell crude oil price - sensitive assets.

South Africa is much poorer than Saudi Arabia, and coal is more vulnerable to climate policy than oil, given its higher carbon content and the greater availability of alternatives.

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The Saudis then plan to use their oil wealth to import virtually all the grain consumed by their Canada - sized population of nearly 30 million people,» notes Brown, President and Founder of the Earth Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C. - based independent environmental research organization.