Middle East Oil

Heavy oil developments in the Middle East

Oman is currently a particular “hot spot” for investment in a range of EOR techniques to produce heavy oil, but is much less visible in industry statistics than countries such as Canada and Venezuela. Other countries in the Middle East are encouraged by Oman’s success and, with the additional impetus of increasing oil prices, are becoming more active in heavy oil production. For example, Iran a...

Stock Prices , Exchange Rates , and Oil : Evidence from Middle East Oil - Exporting Countries

We consider the linkage between stock prices and exchange rates in four Middle East emerging markets. The existing evidence on stock prices and exchange rates typically relies on introduction of a global market index. On the contrary, we find that for the countries of our sample oil prices emerge as the dominant factor in the above relationship. When we focus on the extended sample we do not de...

Middle East respiratory syndrome.

Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) is a highly lethal respiratory disease caused by a novel single-stranded, positive-sense RNA betacoronavirus (MERS-CoV). Dromedary camels, hosts for MERS-CoV, are implicated in direct or indirect transmission to human beings, although the exact mode of transmission is unknown. The virus was first isolated from a patient who died from a severe respiratory ...

Middle East Technical University

China’s Energy Strategy on the Middle East

China is a vast and overpopulated country in the eastern Asia whose energy security and supply is the most important factor of economic growth and consequently, economic, social and political security. By the past decades, its leaders have understood the key role of economic growth and development in the economic and political security of china. Thus, they have put all their concentration on th...