An Optimum Base For Pricing Middle Eastern Crude Oil

Focusing on Saudi Arabia, Abdulaziz M. Aldukheil examines the deficiencies of present price-setting methods where production (extraction), trade, return on foreign investment and the subsequent investment of surplus revenues present complex questions for the Saudi Arabian economy.

Abdulaziz M. Aldukheil is Chairman and Founder of the Aldukheil Financial Group. He was previously Deputy Minister of Finance in Saudi Arabia. He has been a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University, Visiting Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute of Energy Studies, University of Oxford, and a Visiting Scholar at the American University of Beirut Business School.