Saudi Arabia’s H1 Trade Surplus Rose 53% — While National Non-Oil Exports Fell
Saudi Arabia’s H1 2026 surplus reached SAR154.7 billion. Oil supplied the export gain, re-exports rose and domestically produced non-oil goods exports fell 8.8%.
Aramco Cut Its August Oil Price to Asia by $11 — the Biggest Cut Since 2003
Aramco set its August 2026 Arab Light OSP to Asia at $1.50 below the Oman/Dubai average, an $11 cut from July's $9.50 premium and the largest single-month move in Reuters records back to 2003. What an official selling price is, how Arab Light is benchmarked, and whether the cut signals a price war.
How Saudi Arabia Moves Oil Without the Strait of Hormuz: The Petroline East-West Pipeline
The Petroline — Saudi Arabia's east-west crude pipeline — carries up to 7 million barrels a day from Abqaiq to Yanbu on the Red Sea. Built in 1981 as an Iran-war hedge, it is the Kingdom's only Hormuz bypass. This is what it can and cannot do, and why the arithmetic constrains policy.
Yanbu Is Now a Single Point of Failure for Saudi Oil Exports
Yanbu handled 92% of Saudi Arabia's seaborne crude exports in June 2026 after the Strait of Hormuz closed. On 25 July the terminal complex was attacked, and the Bab al-Mandeb route beyond it was already shut. This is what the Kingdom's export chain now looks like.
Asian Energy Markets: China, Japan, Korea, and India Dependency Dynamics
Saudi Arabia's energy export dependency on Asian markets, market share competition, downstream integration, and demand trajectory.
Saudi Arabia Oil Exports
Analysis of Saudi Arabia's oil export profile, covering export volumes, key markets, pricing mechanisms, Aramco's role, refining capacity, and the strategic management of the Kingdom's primary revenue source within the Vision 2030 context.