Saudi Arabia National Automotive Manufacturing Company (Snam) has agreed to increase the aluminium content in vehicles it plans to produce. The aluminium is to be supplied by Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma’aden). Ma’aden operates one of the world’s largest fully…
Author: Edmund O'Sullivan
I am a writer, author, economist and business person. I've reported on and done business in the Middle East since 1979 and travelled throughout the region. I specialist in reporting and writing, economic and media industry consultancy, business development and conference moderation.
Trump’s bans may be better than Obama’s bombs
President Trump signs an executive order calling for extreme vetting of migrants from 7 mainly Muslim countries on 27 January Hastily drafted and badly executed, President Trump’s discriminatory and unfair visa bans announced on Friday may nevertheless to do more…
Trump’s energy agenda defined
President Trump has declared he will free the US oil and gas industry to increase output, reduce climate action laws and end American dependence on OPEC and “any nations hostile to our interests” in his first energy policy statement. “The…
Saudi Arabia gives green light to its nuclear energy plan
Saudi Arabia this week announced that it has given the go ahead for work to being on the kingdom’s nuclear energy plan, the second in the Arab world after Abu Dhabi where nuclear power is due to start this year.…
Kuwait to double water capacity by 2030
Kuwait plans to increase its water production capacity by more than 100 per cent to above 900m gallons a day (g/d), the International Water Summit (IWS) in Abu Dhabi was told on 17 January. This will involve building nine large…
Higher oil to lift Qatar economy in 2017
Higher oil prices will boost Qatar’s economy by more than 10 per cent in 2017 though non-oil growth will continue to be sluggish, a report published by the National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) shows. This will lift government income and…
The dawn of the Al-Falih era for world oil
Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih is the new king of global oil In a confident performance at the Atlantic Council Energy Forum in Abu Dhabi today, Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih targeted the legions of sceptics questioning the kingdom’s…
Saudi Arabia now the world’s third largest phosphate fertiliser exporter
Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma’aden) President and CEO Khalid Al Mudaifer The rise of Saudi Arabia’s mining and minerals industry has been recognised with the appointment of Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma’aden) President and CEO Khalid Al Mudaifer to…
Russia Syria plan calls for divided state
Syria would be divided into informal zones of regional power influence and Bashar al-Assad would remain president for at least a few years according to an outline deal between Russia, Turkey and Iran reached earlier this month. Reuters reported today…
2016: the year history ended again and the world became multipolar once more
The Soviet Union was dissolved on 26 December 1991 The red flag over the Kremlin was replaced with the pre-1917 Tsarist one. It was the end of the Soviet challenge which shaped most of the 20th century. A year…