Company Insights Saudi Aramco Oil & Gas Saudi Aramco News Analysis Giga-projects The huge ambitions of PIF come at vast expense The scale of the holdings is vast and the ambition is huge. Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund was the world’s highest-spending state-owned investor in the first half of 2024, according to Global SWF, a consultancy. It is due to raise its annual spending to $70 billion in 2025, a year earlier than previously announced, according […] September 20, 2024 Oil & Gas Aramco raises stake in MidOcean Saudi Aramco’s stake in MidOcean Energy, the liquefied natural gas unit of the US-based energy investor EIG, will rise to 49 percent after the oil giant agreed to fund an acquisition by MidOcean in Peru. MidOcean signed a deal to buy an additional 15 percent interest in Peru LNG from the American energy company Hunt […] September 17, 2024 Artificial Intelligence Aramco partners with US startup Groq for AI data centre Saudi Aramco’s digital arm is partnering with US semiconductor startup Groq to build the world’s largest artificial intelligence inferencing data centre. Unlike regular data centres, which handle a range of computing tasks, an AI inferencing data centre is designed specifically to run AI models that make rapid predictions or decisions. The facility will use Groq’s […] September 16, 2024 Opinion Oil & Gas Investment and trade are on a steady eastward trajectory The direction of capital flow is set to continue from the Middle East to Asia September 16, 2024 Oil & Gas QatarEnergy LNG awards $4bn contract to Saipem QatarEnergy LNG, one of the world’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) companies, has awarded a $4 billion contract to Italy’s Saipem to boost its gas production. The engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract will aid in sustaining production at the North Field natural gas reservoir off the northeast coast of Qatar. The work scope includes the […] September 16, 2024 Analysis Construction GCC stadium projects have multifaceted impact on real estate Entertainment and sports-focused construction across the Gulf is most likely to push property prices up despite bringing more traffic and noise, according to industry observers. A few of the region’s many projects include the 47,000-spectator Aramco stadium in Saudi Arabia’s Al Khobar, large amusement parks in Qatar and Kuwait, and the region’s inaugural ballpark on […] September 13, 2024 Artificial Intelligence Aramco to buy AI chips from Abu Dhabi fund-backed Cerebras Saudi Aramco is to buy advanced semiconductor chips from Cerebras Systems, the Abu Dhabi fund-backed chipmaker aiming to challenge Nvidia’s dominance in the AI arena, as it seeks to boost artificial intelligence in the kingdom. The state-owned energy giant will use Cerebras’ CS-3 chips to build and deploy large language models (LLMs) – computer models […] September 13, 2024 Oil & Gas Aramco and Rongsheng move on chem plant expansion Saudi Aramco is accelerating plans to expand the liquids-to-chemicals project in Jubail in collaboration with China’s Rongsheng Petrochemical Company. The companies have signed a development framework agreement to potentially expand Saudi Aramco Jubail Refinery Company (Sasref) facilities and increase investments in the petrochemical sectors of both nations. This follows a cooperation framework signed in April, where Rongsheng proposed […] September 12, 2024 Oil & Gas BlackRock buys stake in Saudi-Bahraini oil pipeline Bahrain’s state-run Bapco Energies has sold a minority stake in an oil pipeline linking Saudi Arabia and Bahrain to a fund managed by US investment bank BlackRock. The BlackRock Diversified Infrastructure fund purchased a stake in the Saudi Bahrain Pipeline Co (SBPC), which owns a section of the 112-km pipeline. It supplies crude oil from […] September 12, 2024 Artificial Intelligence Saudi Arabia pledges to ‘confront’ risks posed by AI Saudi Arabia is determined to be “at the forefront” of artificial intelligence funding and development, a senior official told an AI conference in Riyadh on Tuesday. However, Abdullah bin Sharaf Alghamdi, head of the Saudi Authority for Data and Artificial Intelligence, also said the kingdom was wary about the security implications of AI and would take […] September 10, 2024 Posts navigation Previous 1 … 17 18 19 … 55 Next
Analysis Giga-projects The huge ambitions of PIF come at vast expense The scale of the holdings is vast and the ambition is huge. Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund was the world’s highest-spending state-owned investor in the first half of 2024, according to Global SWF, a consultancy. It is due to raise its annual spending to $70 billion in 2025, a year earlier than previously announced, according […] September 20, 2024
Oil & Gas Aramco raises stake in MidOcean Saudi Aramco’s stake in MidOcean Energy, the liquefied natural gas unit of the US-based energy investor EIG, will rise to 49 percent after the oil giant agreed to fund an acquisition by MidOcean in Peru. MidOcean signed a deal to buy an additional 15 percent interest in Peru LNG from the American energy company Hunt […] September 17, 2024
Artificial Intelligence Aramco partners with US startup Groq for AI data centre Saudi Aramco’s digital arm is partnering with US semiconductor startup Groq to build the world’s largest artificial intelligence inferencing data centre. Unlike regular data centres, which handle a range of computing tasks, an AI inferencing data centre is designed specifically to run AI models that make rapid predictions or decisions. The facility will use Groq’s […] September 16, 2024
Opinion Oil & Gas Investment and trade are on a steady eastward trajectory The direction of capital flow is set to continue from the Middle East to Asia September 16, 2024
Oil & Gas QatarEnergy LNG awards $4bn contract to Saipem QatarEnergy LNG, one of the world’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) companies, has awarded a $4 billion contract to Italy’s Saipem to boost its gas production. The engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract will aid in sustaining production at the North Field natural gas reservoir off the northeast coast of Qatar. The work scope includes the […] September 16, 2024
Analysis Construction GCC stadium projects have multifaceted impact on real estate Entertainment and sports-focused construction across the Gulf is most likely to push property prices up despite bringing more traffic and noise, according to industry observers. A few of the region’s many projects include the 47,000-spectator Aramco stadium in Saudi Arabia’s Al Khobar, large amusement parks in Qatar and Kuwait, and the region’s inaugural ballpark on […] September 13, 2024
Artificial Intelligence Aramco to buy AI chips from Abu Dhabi fund-backed Cerebras Saudi Aramco is to buy advanced semiconductor chips from Cerebras Systems, the Abu Dhabi fund-backed chipmaker aiming to challenge Nvidia’s dominance in the AI arena, as it seeks to boost artificial intelligence in the kingdom. The state-owned energy giant will use Cerebras’ CS-3 chips to build and deploy large language models (LLMs) – computer models […] September 13, 2024
Oil & Gas Aramco and Rongsheng move on chem plant expansion Saudi Aramco is accelerating plans to expand the liquids-to-chemicals project in Jubail in collaboration with China’s Rongsheng Petrochemical Company. The companies have signed a development framework agreement to potentially expand Saudi Aramco Jubail Refinery Company (Sasref) facilities and increase investments in the petrochemical sectors of both nations. This follows a cooperation framework signed in April, where Rongsheng proposed […] September 12, 2024
Oil & Gas BlackRock buys stake in Saudi-Bahraini oil pipeline Bahrain’s state-run Bapco Energies has sold a minority stake in an oil pipeline linking Saudi Arabia and Bahrain to a fund managed by US investment bank BlackRock. The BlackRock Diversified Infrastructure fund purchased a stake in the Saudi Bahrain Pipeline Co (SBPC), which owns a section of the 112-km pipeline. It supplies crude oil from […] September 12, 2024
Artificial Intelligence Saudi Arabia pledges to ‘confront’ risks posed by AI Saudi Arabia is determined to be “at the forefront” of artificial intelligence funding and development, a senior official told an AI conference in Riyadh on Tuesday. However, Abdullah bin Sharaf Alghamdi, head of the Saudi Authority for Data and Artificial Intelligence, also said the kingdom was wary about the security implications of AI and would take […] September 10, 2024
