#Saudi Aramco

World’s biggest oil firm Saudi Aramco sells $8bn in bonds

Aramco sold $8bn in tranches maturing in three, five, 10, 30 and 50 years

Aramco turns to bonds to help fund $75bn dividend

The yield on Aramco’s $3bn of bonds due in 2029 has dropped to 2.09 per cent from 3.04 per cent at the start of the year

Saudi oil giant pitches gas to China in cleaner-fuels push

Aramco is the world’s largest oil exporter

Saudi Aramco maintains dividend despite 45% slump in profit

Income still increased for the first time in five quarters as oil prices steadied

Saudi chemicals maker SABIC posts profit as demand revives

Profit rose mainly due to the reversal of SAR690m of impairments associated with Clariant AG

Aramco, Sabic to reassess $20bn crude-to-chemicals project

SABIC suspended new capital spending earlier this year as it reported losses in the first and second quarters

Saudi Arabia sends blue ammonia to Japan in world-first shipment

Japan will receive 40 tons of blue ammonia in the first shipment

Oil giant Aramco regains top spot from Apple as tech rally fades

Apple and Aramco are the only two companies to have achieved valuations of $2 trillion

Saudi chemicals giant Sabic taps bond market for $1bn

Saudi Arabia is seeking to diversify its economy away from petroleum by building new industries

Aramco delays multibillion-dollar LNG, petrochemical plans

It’s also reviewing an earlier decision to buy 25 per cent of Sempra Energy’s Texas LNG terminal

Saudi Aramco discovers two oil, gas fields in north of kingdom

Aramco said it will drill more wells to evaluate how much energy the fields hold

Saudi Aramco appoints new CEO for $500m investment arm

Mahdi Aladel, who formerly led the state energy producer’s base oils and lubricants division, will take over

Aramco reshuffles top management, with new focus on portfolio

The moves come as Aramco adjusts to the reality of oil at $40 a barrel

Saudi Aramco suspends $10bn China oil refinery venture

The oil-price crash and the virus’s impact on energy demand have changed the calculations for energy companies’ projects

Oil giant Saudi Aramco plans huge spending cuts for 2021

Saudi Aramco may keep capex, most of which is spent on exploration and production, at a similar level until at least 2023

Aramco still aims for $15bn investment in India’s Reliance

A deal with Reliance would help the world’s biggest crude exporter join the ranks of the top oil refiners and chemical makers

Oil giant Aramco sticks with dividend even as profit crashes

Aramco will pay a dividend of $18.75bn for the quarter

Saudi Aramco loses status as most valuable publicly listed company to Apple as Amazon closes in

Amazon riding an e-commerce and cloud computing wave as people shelter-in-place due to Covid-19

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Oil giant Saudi Aramco completes $70bn takeover of SABIC

Aramco will push back the bulk of installments until after 2022 and delay the final one by three years until 2028

Goldman banker moving from Dubai to London in latest change to Mideast lineup

Fabrice Francois will join Goldman’s mid-market advisory franchise, known as the cross markets group

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Aramco begins taking SABIC stake in $69bn of block trades

Aramco will pay $24.8bn this week as a first installment in the deal

Four MENA IPO deals raise $814.2m in Q1 2020

Globally, 235 IPOs raised $28.5bn in Q1 2020, compared to $15.1bn in Q1 2019

Aramco backs New York fintech firm offering Islamic investments

Wahed Invest got the financing from Saudi Aramco Entrepreneurship Ventures unit as part of a $25m funding round

Revealed: Top 10 companies in the Middle East in 2020

In this year’s Forbes list of the Middle East’s Top 100 Companies 2020, Saudi Arabia led the pack with 33 entries

Saudis make biggest oil price hike in 20 years after OPEC+ cuts

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

Saudi Aramco is first oil major to regain pre-price-war share price

Aramco’s recovery has been achieved on much smaller share volumes than its international counterparts

Saudi Aramco seeks to restructure $69.1bn SABIC deal

Aramco is weighing pushing out payments for the 70 per cent holding in SABIC and reducing the size of the initial installment to PIF

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Saudi Arabia’s SABIC suspends all but essential spending

The company’s first-quarter sales dropped 18 per cent to SAR30.83bn

Saudi Aramco delays oil pricing statement as OPEC+ talks continue

Benchmark Brent has plunged by more than half since the start of the year

Aramco delays oil pricing amid Saudi-Russia row on oil cuts

Benchmark Brent crude has plunged 48 per cent this year