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The Saudi Dilemma: To Cut Or Not To Cut

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To cut and push up prices or not to cut and preserve market share, this is the question that Saudi Arabia is facing ahead of this year’s December OPEC meeting. Saudi Arabia is not an exception. At the same time, Saudi Arabia is in a major push to diversify its revenue streams and has committed a lot of money to it.

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Opinion: Oil Market ShowdownCan Russia Outlast The Saudis?

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In practice, the call for a change is a call for Saudi Arabia and Russia, the two dominant global crude exporters, which each daily export over seven-plus mmbbls (including condensates and NGLs) and which each see the other as the key to any "balancing" moves, to bear the brunt of any production cuts. percent growth in Q1.

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Opinion: Saudi Oil Strategy: Brilliant Or Suicide?

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In the last quarter of 2014, in the face of possible oversupply, Saudi Arabia abandoned its traditional role as the global oil market’s swing producer and therefore it role as unofficial guarantor of existing ($100+ per barrel) prices. Saudi Arabia increased production by 6.8 Any Saudi Victory Will Be Pyrrhic.

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Opinion: OPEC Divorce And Self-Destruction Thanks To Saudi Oil Strategy?

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If you are the world’s leading energy economy, you produce energy, that’s what you do.”. “A Despite low oil prices, Saudi Arabia is maintaining its investment in its oil industry. According to an August 26 Bloomberg article , the Saudi government is seeking ways to reduce investment in 2016 “.as If You’re a Government.

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BNEF: Oil price plunge to have only moderate impact on low-carbon electricity development, but likely to slow EV growth

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The collapse in world oil prices in the second half of 2014 will have only a moderate impact on the fast-developing low-carbon transition in the world electricity system, according to research firm Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Earlier Bloomberg New Energy Finance analysis showed that, with gasoline at $2.09 on 30 June to $61.60

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SGH2 building largest green hydrogen production facility in California; gasification of waste into H2

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We know a circular economy with renewable energy is the path, and we have positioned ourselves to be the alternative energy capital of the world. Bloomberg New Energy Finance reports that clean hydrogen could cut up to 34% of global greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels and industry.

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Opinion: The End Of An Era: Is The US Petrodollar Under Threat?

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Nixon negotiated a deal with Saudi Arabia whereby in exchange for arms and protection, the Saudis would denominate all future sales of oil in US dollars. The company was also seeking financing for a gas project in Russia despite Western sanctions. “It

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