Sustainability

Although it has a total population of little more than 5 million people, Norway has rapidly become one of the world’s largest and fastest growing markets for Electric Vehicles (EVs).

KAPSARC, the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center, is no ordinary think-tank. An independent institution at the heart of the world’s most important producer of hydrocarbons, KAPSARC’s researchers are helping to shape policies at a critical time in global energy economics.

Although electric vehicles are beginning to make inroads into the passenger car market in developed markets, for the foreseeable future the Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) will continue to dominate road transport in developing countries and in the global truck sector.

For anyone looking to experience the rich legacy of Saudi Arabia’s past and understand the vision that is shaping its future, there is no more inspiring place to come than the historic town of Diriyah. Located in an oasis just outside the fast-growing capital Riyadh, for hundreds of years traders and pilgrims from Asia, Africa and Europe would gather here to rest on their journeys.

More than 20 years after capital goods giant CNH Industrial launched its first trucks and buses powered by natural gas, the technology is breaking out of its niche markets and poised to dominate the mainstream.

Today a vehicle that is equipped with a gas engine may cost more, but when taking into account fuel consumption and the price of fuel, the total cost of ownership is lower. The environmental improvements are significant. Gas trucks are allowed into low emission zones where diesel vehicles are not permitted.

Elevators enabled the first high-rise buildings. But until now the basic principles have never really changed. However, we are now seeing buildings that are more than 800 meters high. Conventional elevators are reaching their limits. We need a new concept.

São Paulo is home to 20 million fiercely proud paulistanos (as residents are known), all of whom will happily tell you at length to you how they'd never live elsewhere. Spend time with them and the reasons will soon unfold.

Around the world, oil majors are increasingly exploring the potential to create new business by breaking down hydrocarbons into their constituent parts of hydrogen and carbon and developing new uses for them. Aramco is emerging as a pioneer in the development of technologies for the production and distribution of hydrogen.

On the sparkling shores of the Red Sea, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has begun developing a luxury resort that will provide local and international visitors with a new level of refinement and comfort.