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21-23 November: Private Equity World MENA 2010, Dubai
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Briefings & Reports
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Politics, succession & risk in Saudi Arabia report
Politics, succession and risk in Saudi Arabia is a GSN special report, published in January 2010. The new report analyses Saudi policy on issues including succession, domestic and regional politics, defence, energy and financial trends, and features extensively researched biographical entries on 1,200 Al-Sauds from the ruling family’s main branch, together with profiles of leading cadet branch businessmen, and a range of maps and graphics.
Read more about the report
Islamic Finance Report
Published in June 2009, this GSN report is an essential reference tool for both newcomers, and well-established bankers and practitioners. Read more
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Politics, succession and risk in Saudi Arabia
GSN’s new special report Politics, succession and risk in Saudi Arabia was launched to great acclaim at a 15 January seminar in London hosted and co-organised by Chatham House’s Middle East and North Africa Programme. Senior figures from the banking, insurance and risk sectors joined industry and governmental political risk analysts for a frank roundtable discussion of the issues raised by a report that was recognised by discussants – who included Exeter University Professor Gerd Nonneman, political scientist Neil Partrick, Saudi academic Mai Yamani and Chatham House’s Maha Azzam and Claire Spencer – as a significant piece of research and analysis, which “raised the bar” for those researching the Kingdom. Read more about the report
The report is available to GSN subscribers for £175.
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Iran looks to domestic, Bric allies to develop an energy industry as regime runs out of options
As sanctions bite, it becomes ever harder to develop energy projects, but western withdrawal opens opportunities for Tehran’s traditional partners as well as domestic companies with shadowy backgrounds more
Iran remains in denial over energy
Sanctions targeting Iran’s energy sector have sparked an exodus of western oil companies, but Tehran is turning to one-time allies Russia and China to rescue a faltering oil production and refining capacity that keeps the country dependent on imports and inefficient government subsidies. more
Big business for the IRGC
The awarding of lucrative oil and gas contracts to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC or Pasdaran) has become a common trend since President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came to power in 2005, resulting in Pasdaran engineering and construction wing Khatam-Al-Anbia becoming one of Iran’s largest contractors. more
While US diplomacy may not be getting very far in Baghdad – vice president Joe Biden’s recent visit did not lead to any breakthrough in negotiations on a new government – former diplomats and officials are doing well in Iraqi Kurdistan, acting as advisers to the Kurdistan Regional Government or its commercial partners more
IRAN
Government targets oil self-sufficiency
Iran is aiming to become self-sufficient in oil within four years, oil minister Masoud Mir-Kazemi announced during the inaugural ceremony of Morvarid Petrochemical Complex and Pardis Petrochemical Company projects on 28 July. more
IRAQ
Potential Sonangol farm-out
Angola’s Sonangol has said that Occidental Petroleum and Indonesian state company Pertamina have shown interest in taking a stake in its Qayara and Najmah oilfield developments in Iraq. more
The Middle East project finance market has been boosted by recent deals in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, and the opening of US export credit agency Export-Import Bank in Iraq more
Issue 881 - 16 July 2010
IRAN
Sanctions hit airliners, US targets gasoline
Underlining the impact of US-led campaigns on economic life in the Islamic Republic, BP has halted fuel supplies to Iranian airliners landing at any location following fresh US sanctions against the energy sector. more
Russian trade continues amid growing tensions
Russian energy minister Sergei Shmatko has ruled out reducing energy trade with Iran despite the sanctions imposed by the United Nations, United States and European Union. more
IRAQ
Shell’s gas project moves forward in political vacuum
The outgoing Council of Ministers has approved the establishment of Basra Gas Company, which will implement Royal Dutch Shell’s controversial project to gather, process and market flared gas from a quartet of the country’s largest oil fields. more
OMAN
GE gets Salalah IWPP turbine, services orders
GE will provide five advanced 6FA gas turbines for the $1.5bn Salalah independent water and power project in southern Oman which will generate 445MW of electricity and 15m g/d of desalinated water. more
SAUDI ARABIA
Oil industry fears policy shift
Comments in early July by King Abdullah Bin Abdelaziz that oil production must be halted to leave resources for the next generation has provoked concern across the sector. more
