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Quotation: "As OPEC prepares to meet, a fast-changing energy mix raises questions about the future of oil markets"

9/26/2016

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“The important question from Saudi Arabia’s perspective, and from every producer’s perspective, is what is the future trajectory of prices compared to the present,” says Omar Al-Ubaydli, a director for the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies.

“Given that they think oil prices are going to be lower in the future — because of electric cars, because governments want to do more to cut emissions and that kind of thing — it makes sense to try to sell as much as they can now.”

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Quotation: "Here’s what to expect from OPEC oil-output-freeze talks"

9/22/2016

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Omar Al-Ubaydli, a program director at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies, referred to the output cap speculation as a “red herring.”

Everyone is producing as much as they can or want to produce anyway, “so an output freeze is equivalent to all the runners in the 100-meter final saying: ‘Let’s agree to not run faster than 9 seconds’.”

“In that case, they just want to project collective power,” said Al-Ubaydli, who’s also an affiliated senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

Some producers may intend to exhibit “willful production restraint,” but an agreement would “unravel within days or weeks since there is no reliable way to monitor cheaters and everyone has a history of cheating,” he said, adding that OPEC had a 96% output quota violation rate from 1980 to 2009.

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Article: "Value is hard to find in a fossilised public sector"

9/19/2016

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Public sectors are important employers in all economies, typically accounting for about 20 per cent of total jobs. Compensation in government organisations is structured quite differently to what is found in the private sector: it is usually higher, when one takes into account the education and experience of workers; pay scales are very rigid; and, there is almost a complete absence of performance-related pay.

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Article: "Enabling Decentralized Gulf Cooperation" ( تفعيل التعاون الخليجي لامركزياً )

9/14/2016

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نُشر في صحيفة الحياة
النسخة الإنجليزية أدناه

في ظل تراجع أسعار النفط، والاضطرابات الأمنية الإقليمية، تبحث الدول الخليجية عن فرص اقتصادية جديدة. وبشكل عام، يوصي الاقتصاديون بالتكامل الاقتصادي، لأن التخصص في الإنتاج، والتفاعل في أسواق أكبر، يفتحان أفقين من أهم مصادر الازدهار. آمنت الحكومات الخليجية بهذه الرسالة منذ زمن طويل، إذ أنها أطلقت مشروعاً تكاملياً بعد إنشاء مجلس التعاون في عام 1981، احتوى على منطقة تجارة حرة، ووحدة جمركية، وسوق مشتركة، ومستقبلاً عملة موحدة.ـ

المزيد
In the wake of falling oil prices and regional instability, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are looking for new economic opportunities. Generally speaking, experts encourage economic integration, because specialization in production, and operating in larger markets, constitute two of the most important sources of prosperity. The GCC governments have subscribed to this view for some time, having launched an economic aggrandizement project following the establishment of the GCC in 1981, comprising a free trade area, a customs union, a single market, and plans for a single currency.

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Quotation: "Russia, Saudi Arabia are all talk, no action when it comes to oil-output freeze"

9/6/2016

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“In my opinion, there’s nothing going on here, at least as far as oil markets are concerned,” said Omar Al-Ubaydli, a program director at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies.

He believes the “developments reflect geopolitics.”

“In the case of Saudi Arabia and Russia, both countries are seeking closer relations, and they want to project a good relationship to the rest of the world,” said Al-Ubaydli, who’s also an affiliated senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. “They both know that there’s no chance of effective cooperation in oil markets due to market forces, but there’s no harm in having an extra meeting, and issuing mutually supportive statements.”

“In the case of Iran, their government officials are always happy to engage the media, especially now that sanctions have been lifted,” said Al-Ubaydli. “They like to make statements that suggest that their voice is important in global affairs, even though the reality of oil markets is that Iran and all other producers are slaves to market forces.”

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