{"id":1012,"date":"2005-01-11T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-11T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2005-01-11T17:59:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-11T17:59:00","slug":"1012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=1012","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>SAUDI ARABIA AND THE ENERGY MARKETS<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Since the KSA plays a pivotal role in both global energy markets and the Muslim world its helpful to have a good handle on both of those roles. The Department of Energy has just released its latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eia.doe.gov\/emeu\/cabs\/saudi.html\">Country Analysis Report on Saudi Arabia <\/a>&#8211; these DOE -EIA pages are one of the best, concise, open source,  quick references on economic intelligence available anywhere.  Long before the invasion of Iraq they had reported on the sanctions-violating French and Russian<br \/>\n<br \/> &#8221; precontracts&#8221; with the Baathist regime for various undeveloped Iraqi oilfields. I&#8217;d put this site up there with Jane&#8217;s defense and intelligence reports in terms of quality ( and it&#8217;s free).<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip <a href=\"http:\/\/xrdarabia.org\/blog\/archives\/2005\/01\/11\/saudi-arabia-country-analysis-brief\/\">Crossroads Arabia <\/a>)<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAUDI ARABIA AND THE ENERGY MARKETS Since the KSA plays a pivotal role in both global energy markets and the Muslim world its helpful to have a good handle on both of those roles. The Department of Energy has just released its latest Country Analysis Report on Saudi Arabia &#8211; these DOE -EIA pages are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}