In this year’s Forbes list of the Middle East’s Top 100 Companies 2020, Saudi Arabia led the pack with 33 entries
Brent crude, down 36 per cent this year, has clawed back some of its losses and ended trading on Friday at more than $40 a barrel
Aramco’s recovery has been achieved on much smaller share volumes than its international counterparts
Aramco is weighing pushing out payments for the 70 per cent holding in SABIC and reducing the size of the initial installment to PIF
The company’s first-quarter sales dropped 18 per cent to SAR30.83bn
Benchmark Brent has plunged by more than half since the start of the year
Benchmark Brent crude has plunged 48 per cent this year
The kingdom needs an oil price of $84 to balance this year’s budget
Brent crude averaged $64.12 a barrel in 2019 compared with $71.67 the previous year
It puts Aramco supply above its maximum sustainable capacity, indicating that the kingdom is even tapping its strategic inventories
On Friday, oil prices plunged the most since 2008 on signs of a breakdown in the global OPEC+ alliance that helped underpin crude’s recovery since 2014
Bahrain, where oil and gas are also central to the economy, wants to balance its budget by 2022
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In August, Reliance valued its oil-to-chemicals division at $75bn including debt, implying a $15bn valuation for a 20 per cent stake
The oil giant raised $29.4bn in the world’s biggest-ever initial public offering, selling shares at 32 riyals each
Goldman Sachs Group, one of the underwriters of the deal, exercised the over-allotment option and increased the offering
On the second day of trading on Riyadh’s stock exchange, Saudi Aramco briefly soared past the target
Saudi Aramco is producing more than 9.9 million barrels a day of crude
A virus infected about 30,000 of the oil producer’s workstations in mid-August, forcing the company to cut off external communications.