Posts Tagged: Middle East Oil
Allies Play Hard to Get on US Proposal to Protect Oil Shipping Lanes
The United States is struggling to win its allies' support for an initiative to heighten surveillance of vital Middle East oil shipping lanes because of...
Oil Prices Up as Middle East Tanker Attacks Heighten Supply Concerns
Oil futures rose on Monday on increasing concerns about supply disruptions in the Middle East even as investors and traders fretted over global economic growth...
US Confirms Its Iran Envoy Met Saudi Energy Minister in Vienna
The US government confirmed that Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih met with US special representative for Iran Brian Hook in Vienna on Wednesday, contradicting a Saudi denial...
Why Is Saudi Halting Oil Shipments Through the Red Sea?
Saudi Arabia announced last week it was suspending oil shipments through the Red Sea's Bab al-Mandeb strait after Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis attacked two ships in...
Iran Calls on Saudi Arabia to Help Curb Plunging Oil Prices
Reuters - Falling world oil prices will hurt countries across the Middle East unless Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest crude exporter, takes action to reverse the slump,...
Saudi Oil Minister Says Fall in Crude Prices Likely to be Temporary
BBC News - Recent falls in the price of oil are likely to be temporary, says the oil minister for Saudi Arabia, Opec's biggest producing...
Iranian Oil Minister Blames Falling Prices on ‘Political Conspiracy’
Daily Telegraph - Iran's oil minister has said that a "political conspiracy" is to blame for the dramatic slump in the price of crude in...
Is Shale the Key to Israel’s Energy Future?
JNS.org - Israel soon will be producing natural gas from fields in the Mediterranean in sufficient quantity to replace all of the coal and gas...
The Impact of Global Political Winds For Israel and Judaism
Much ink has been spilled over the past 12 years regarding the shift in global power from West to East in the still-young 21st century,...
Will the Middle East Lose Its Importance?
In a provocative and well executed article in the July/August issue of the National Interest, "The Fading Arab Oil Empire," Paul D. Miller, assistant...
