Publications

Modeling Cross-seasonal Fuel Savings From Load Shifting in the Saudi Industrial Sector and Interlinkages to Export Revenues

Science Direct

Salaheddine Soummane, Amro Elshurafa, Hatem Al Atawi, Frank Felder

Advancing the Circular Carbon Economy in Saudi Arabia

In May 2022, the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC) and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) co-organized an event titled “Advancing the Circular Carbon Economy in Saudi Arabia.” The one-day event, which comprised a high-level…

Macroeconomic and Sectoral Effects of the Natural Gas Price: Policy Insights from a Macroeconometric Model

Fakhri Hasanov, Muhammad Javid, Jeyhun Mikayilov, Rami Shabaneh, Abdulelah Darandary, Ryan Alyamani

Macroeconomic and sectoral assessment of the energy price reform (EPR) can provide policymakers with useful insights regarding price deregulation options. A key feature of this research that differentiates it from many other studies is its modeling framework. The framework first…

Hasanov, Fakhri

Javid, Muhammad

Mikayilov, Jeyhun

Shabaneh, Rami

Darandary, Abdulelah

Alyamani, Ryan

Chapter 2: Geopolitics and energy security issues in India

Elgaronline

This book chapter assesses the issues related to the Indian energy sector through a geopolitical and energy security lens, focusing on the energy access and economic drivers that have helped shape these lenses historically and their impact on the future.…

Jitendra Roychoudhury

The Rebound Effect in Residential Energy Demand: The Case of Saudi Arabia

Mohammad Aldubyan, Fateh Belaïd, Anwar Gasim

A Bird’s-Eye View of the Rebound Effect Although the rebound effect phenomenon has sparked heightened policy and academic debate in recent years, the topic is not new. The concept of rebound – and its extreme form, “backfire”, where energy efficiency…

Aldubyan, Mohammad

Belaïd, Fateh

Gasim, Anwar

The Volatility of Crude Oil Prices and the Mitigation of Oil Price Risk

The COVID-19 pandemic was one of the greatest challenges of modern times. More than two years since its onset, the global oil market has yet to regain any semblance of balance or stability. The future remains extremely uncertain. The pandemic…

Decarbonizing the Residential Sector: How Prominent is Household Energy-Saving Behavior in Decision Making?

IAEE

Fateh Belaïd

Chapter 5: China’s energy investment through the lens of the Belt and Road Initiative

Dongmei Chen, Philipp Galkin

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): Progress Amid Controversies Overview of the BRI President Xi Jinping announced the BRI in 2013 during his official visits to Kazakhstan and Indonesia. The vision for a Silk Road Economic Belt connecting Central Asia…

Chen, Dongmei

Galkin, Philipp

Oil Rents and Non-oil Economic Growth in CIS Oil Exporters. The Role of Financial Development

Science Direct

Fakhri Hasanov

What Would it Take for the People of Riyadh City to Shift From Their Cars to the Proposed Metro?

Science Direct

Ahm Mehbub Anwar, Abu Toasin Oakil, Abdelrahman Muhsen, Anvita Arora

Exploring the Effect of a Transportation Subsidy on Saudi Arabia’s Main Labor Force Indicators

Mansour Al Rajhi, Cian Mulligan

As part of the strategic roadmap for Saudi Vision 2030, the Saudi Arabian government set a goal in 2017 to increase female participation in the workforce from 22% to 30%. This goal falls under objective 4, Increase Employment, of the…

Mansour Al Rajhi

Mulligan, Cian

CO2 Emissions Reduction Progress and Future Perspectives in Aviation

CO2 emissions from aviation are a priority for policymakers, researchers, entities, and governments worldwide. Traditional approaches to analyzing the aviation sector must be modified because aviation practices are no longer supply driven. In fact, the recent increase in environmental awareness…

Seasonal Adjustment of GDP Time Series – Private Sector Component

Jeremy Rothfield, Mansour Al Rajhi

The General Authority for Statistics (GaStat) categorizes Saudi Arabia’s gross domestic product (GDP) into institutional oil and non-oil segments. The institutional non-oil segment can be further broken down into institutional government and institutional private sectors. For analysts, the seasonal adjustment…

Rothfield, Jeremy

Mansour Al Rajhi

How Responsive Are New Car Buyers in India and China to Factors Driving Fuel Consumption?

Prateek Bansal, Rubal Dua

China and India, the world’s two most populous developing economies, are also among the largest automotive markets and carbon emitters. To reduce carbon emissions from the passenger car sector, both countries have considered various policy levers that affect fuel price,…

Bansal, Prateek

Dua, Rubal

Regional Energy Cooperation: Opportunities to Enhance the Saudi-India Relationship

Yagyavalk Bhatt, Nora Nezamuddin

Saudi Arabia and India, two of the fastest growing economies globally, play important roles in South Asia and the Middle East, respectively. Saudi-India relations have started to acquire a strategic dimension owing to the countries’ growing business opportunities, rising investment…

Bhatt, Yagyavalk

Nezamuddin, Nora

Electric Vehicle Subsidies: Time to Accelerate or Pump the Brakes?

Science Direct

Rubal Dua, Tamara Sheldon, Omar Al Harbi

Can Circularity-Based Approaches Prevent a Cobalt Supply Shortfall?

Rubal Dua

Electric vehicle batteries rely heavily on a small number of critical minerals, including cobalt. Cobalt metal prices have doubled over the past year as a result of a mismatch between supply and demand, particularly for electric car batteries (Hume 2022).

Dua, Rubal

The Ban on Long-Term Natural Gas Contracts for the European Union: A Double-Edged Sword?

Zlata Sergeeva

Long-term natural gas contracts are necessary market instruments that provide supply security for customers and demand security for producers. Nevertheless, the European Commission recently announced a plan to ban long-term contracts for unabated fossil gas after 2049. This study shows…

Sergeeva, Zlata

Real Gross Domestic Income for Saudi Arabia From 1986 to 2021

Walid Matar

A country’s national income is defined as the total market value of its output. The most used measure for national income is gross domestic product (GDP). One way to estimate GDP for a country is to sum its government consumption,…

Matar, Walid

Understanding Phantom Oil

Phantom oil is oil that is deliberately moved from legally recognized sources or traded in the black market. It is also frequently referred to as illegal, illicit, tacit, or unregistered oil. This oil is generally concealed from the energy community…