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U.S.-Iran Tensions and the Waiver Renewal for Iranian Gas Exports to Iraq

Majed A. Al Suwailem, Saleh Al Muhanna, Rami Shabaneh

Following the assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad on January 3, as a result of a United States (U.S.) airstrike, the Iraqi Parliament passed a resolution stating that it “must work to end the presence of any foreign…

Al Suwailem, Majed A.

Al Muhanna, Saleh

Shabaneh, Rami

Natural Gas Strategies for the Saudi Energy System

Walid Matar, Rami Shabaneh

Fuel prices in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have historically been below international market values. This has stimulated rapid growth in primary energy demand. The Kingdom’s natural gas demand has now outstripped its domestic production, forcing the government to impose…

Matar, Walid

Shabaneh, Rami

Implications of IMO 2020: The Potential for High Sulfur Fuel Oil Penetration in Saudi Arabia

Rami Shabaneh, Hamid M. Al Sadoon, Raed Al-Mestneer

January 1, 2020 marks the enforcement of the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) rule on limiting sulfur emissions from ships (IMO 2020). The rule mandates ships to reduce the sulfur content in their fuels to 0.5% from the current 3.5%. This…

Shabaneh, Rami

Al Sadoon, Hamid M.

Al-Mestneer, Raed

India’s Push to Renegotiate Long-Term LNG Contracts

Kaushik Deb, Rami Shabaneh

On August 26, 2019, India’s petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan announced that he would consider “a review of liquefied natural gas (LNG) prices under [India’s] long-term contracts”. However, Mr. Pradhan did not lay out a timeline for the review and reiterated…

Deb, Kaushik

Shabaneh, Rami

Viability of Seasonal Natural Gas Storage in the Saudi Energy System

Walid Matar, Rami Shabaneh

Saudi Arabia expects to double its natural gas production within the next decade. This increased domestic supply is expected to meet the demand for gas from Saudi Arabia’s industrial development and, most importantly, to displace liquid fuels in its electricity…

Matar, Walid

Shabaneh, Rami

Aramco’s LNG strategy: Opportunities and Options

Kaushik Deb, Rami Shabaneh

Saudi Arabia has taken a major step into global gas markets with Saudi Aramco signing a heads of agreement (HoA) with Sempra Energy. The HoA includes a 20-year sales and purchase agreement (SPA) for 5 million tonnes per annum (MTPA)…

Deb, Kaushik

Shabaneh, Rami

Assisting Energy Policy Instruments: LNG Imports into Saudi Arabia

Science Direct

Rami Shabaneh, Maxime Schenckery

Assessing Politics in Market Projections-Restarting Japanese Nuclear Reactors and Global Gas Markets

Saleh Al Muhanna, Rami Shabaneh

This paper explores the value of explicitly integrating the modeling of political concerns into a model of energy market projections. This is achieved by assessing the impact on global gas markets of political constraints on restarting Japanese nuclear reactors. The…

Al Muhanna, Saleh

Shabaneh, Rami

Assessing Energy Policy Instruments: LNG Imports Into Saudi Arabia

Rami Shabaneh, Maxime Schenckery

Natural gas is already playing a prominent role in diversifying Saudi Arabia’s power mix away from a heavy reliance on oil-based fuels. Between 2010 and 2017, the share of natural gas used in power generation in Saudi Arabia grew from…

Shabaneh, Rami

Schenckery, Maxime

The Future of Gas in the Gulf: Continuity and Change

Rami Shabaneh, Bassam Fattouh

This book provides an update the development of natural gas in the Gulf countries nearly ten years after the publication of the OIES Gas Programme book on Natural Gas Markets in the Middle East and North Africa. The book comprises in-depth…

Shabaneh, Rami

Bassam Fattouh

Assessing the Impact of Natural Gas on Natural Gas Liquids: Policy Challenges and Imperatives

Rami Shabaneh, Kang Wu

The supply growth of natural gas liquids (NGLs) globally within the last decade is unprecedented. The future global demand growth for NGLs is expected to be strong in areas where relevant industries are garnering robust investment and policymakers support the use…

Shabaneh, Rami

Wu, Kang

Potential Effects of Trade Liberalization on China’s Imports of Plastics From the GCC

Philipp Galkin, Carlo Andrea Bollino, Rami Shabaneh

Petrochemical products, particularly plastics, contribute to a significant share of expanding and increasingly diverse trade flows between the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and China. The petrochemical sector could benefit from a preferential bilateral trade regime between China and the…

Galkin, Philipp

Bollino, Carlo Andrea

Shabaneh, Rami

Identifying the Roadblocks for Energy Access: A Case Study for Eastern Africa’s Gas

Rami Shabaneh, Anne-Sophie Corbeau, Fernando Tomas Nhantumbo

Natural gas resources in Tanzania and Mozambique have emerged as a new source of gas supply. While they are poised for export to global gas markets, they can also provide a key source of energy to the rest of Eastern…

Shabaneh, Rami

Corbeau, Anne-Sophie

Nhantumbo, Fernando Tomas

The Impact of Low Oil and Gas Prices on Gas Markets: A Retrospective Look at 2014-15

Rami Shabaneh

In the past year, global gas prices have dropped significantly, albeit at unequal paces depending on the region. All else being equal, economists would suggest that this should have generated a positive demand response. However, “all else” was not equal.…

Shabaneh, Rami

Economic Impacts of the Petroleum Industry in Canada

Canadian Energy Research Institute

Rami Shabaneh

Comparative Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Base Load Electricity Generation in Ontario

Canadian Energy Research Institute

Rami Shabaneh

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