Resources

Despite the extent of their reserves, oil production in most countries of the Middle East and North Africa is not likely to increase significantly in the years ahead. Exports from the Middle East, 75% of which are to Asia, and those from North Africa, most of which are...Read More

The purpose of this review has always been to provide objective data on global energy developments; and to chronicle changes in global energy markets year by year, in as rigorous a fashion as possible. Here is last year’s chapter. Read More

This is the 48th edition of the Annual Statistical Bulletin (ASB), one of OPEC’s principal publications and an increasingly important source of data for the oil industry. The aim of the ASB is to make available reliable and timely historical data on the global oil and...Read More

The 2013 report covers all fossil resources (coal, oil, both conventional and unconventional and gas, both conventional and unconventional), and the main renewable and transitional resources: peat, nuclear and uranium, hydro power, biofuels and waste, wind, solar,...Read More

Estimates about the amount of investment needed to enable Saudi Arabia’s power and water sectors to grow fast enough for the next decade quite easily stretch into the hundreds of billions of riyals. Keeping investments in utilities infrastructure high is far from a...Read More

Global water and food security, water and food security in the Arab world, water security in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, suggested scenario for domestic water demand reduction, water supply scenarios, food security in KSA, alternative cropping and demand scenario for...Read More

Saudi Arabia has abundant oil but very little naturally-occur- ring water. Yet by investing in desalination and domestic agriculture, the Saudi govern- ment has succeeded in provid- ing plentiful water to the en- tire country, satisfying critical needs that many...Read More

On 29 April 2013, the Chatham House Energy, Environment and Resources department convened a meeting on ‘Global Food Insecurity and Implications for Saudi Arabia.’ The aims of the meeting were threefold: 1) to identify some of the challenges and opportunities in key...Read More

In order to establish appropriate mechanisms and strategies for the market intro- duction of solar technology in the Kingdom, credible information on demand and resources, technologies and applications is essential. The present study provides such information as a...Read More

Saudi Arabia’s place in the world oil market is threatened by unrestrained domestic fuel consumption. In an economy dominated by fossil fuels and dependent on the export of oil, current patterns of energy demand are not only wasting valuable resources and causing...Read More