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• The petro top ten decision makersFeatures | 10 September 2009

  PME ranks the region's most powerful people behind the biggest budgets in the industry.

• Oil eases investors past Saudi’s regulatory risksFeatures | 19 June 2009

  The Kingdom’s muddy investment rules are failing to deter foreign inflows.

• Whom to blame?Comment | 17 May 2009

  Could $11.6 billion have ever been the right price for GE Plastics?

• Saudi stock slideFeatures | 20 March 2009

  Petrochemicals Middle East provides a concise evaluation of the KSA listed petrochemical firms fourth quarter profits decline.

• Ethylene focusFeatures | 8 March 2009

  The Middle East is fast becoming the epicentre of global ethylene production.

• The kingdomFeatures | 15 February 2009

  The region’s largest oil producer is stepping up its efforts to become the centre of the Middle Eastern petrochemicals worldwide hub. The question now is can it make it?

• Golden opportunity for local sectorComment | 10 February 2009

  Feedstock advantage will see Mid East firms power past established global giants.

• Looking aheadComment | 13 January 2009

  Mohamed Al-Mady, vice chairman and chief executive officer, Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), and chairman of the Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals Association reveals his hopes and predictions for the year ahead.

• Gulf cooperationFeatures | 13 January 2009

  December saw the largest ever meeting of the GPCA, proving over 900 heads are better than one.

• Regional power problemsFeatures | 25 September 2008

  Seasonal electricity fears exacerbated by reports of industrial shortfalls throughout the GCC.

• The 100 billion dollar manInterviews | 31 August 2008

  Sean Cronin meets Mohamed Al-Mady, the figure behind the corporate phenomenon that is Sabic.

• Gekko greed no longer goodComment | 28 August 2008

  As Dubai stationery shops run low on brown envelopes, what has been the real impact of the latest financial scandals?

• Dark days ahead?Features | 17 August 2008

  The Gulf faces a power shortage of unprecedented proportions, due to rapid growth in consumption.

• Switched onFeatures | 30 July 2008

  Switchgears fulfil a vital safety role in power networks and as such merit care and attention.

• Crew change at SabicComment | 20 July 2008

  One of the biggest jobs in the Middle East's tightening grip on the world's plastics industry has had a change of owner.

• Ureaka!Features | 22 March 2008

  The soaring oil price is encouraging farmers worldwide to turn land over to the production of ethanol.

• Waste not, want notInterviews | 1 February 2008

  Business is growing for Riyadh-based AES Arabia, despite a lack of interest in wastewater treatment.

• Merger mania Features | 29 August 2007

  A look at the past, present and future of the mergers and acquisitions phenomenon that has swept the globe in 2007.

• Saudi starsFeatures | 14 July 2007

  Anil Bhoyrul looks at the 10 biggest names in the Kingdom when it comes to power, success and wealth.

• Saudi 2010: empire in the makingFeatures | 14 July 2007

  If you take a quick look at the map of the Arabian Peninsula, Saudi Arabia appears to engulf the entire region.

• Bright ideasFeatures | 16 June 2007

  Melissa Hancock speaks to GE's Middle East CEO Nabil Habayeb, on the company's strategy for the Gulf region.

• The US$100bn dollar weekComment | 26 May 2007

  It's not every day that you witness US$164,344 being invested every second in and out of the Gulf.

• Plastic fantasticFeatures | 26 May 2007

  Each week Arabian Business turns the spotlight on a leading company.

• Exploding chemicalsComment | 22 May 2007

  What a fortnight for Saudi Arabia's chemicals industry: $31.6 billion invested by SABIC and Aramco.