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Lucid Air police cruisers to be unveiled at Saudi Arabia defense show

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Saudi Arabia is set to launch a Lucid Air police cruiser, as highlighted in a recent preview of a defense conference starting this weekend. The automaker also began delivering the Lucid Air in Saudi Arabia last June , and in 2022 the company announced a fleet deal for 100,000 EVs over a ten-year span.

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Gulf oil giants Saudi Aramco, Adnoc set sights on lithium – ET Auto

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Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates’ national oil companies plan to extract lithium from brine in their oilfields, in line with efforts to diversify their economies and profit from the shift to electric vehicles (EVs), three sources told Reuters.

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MIT and Saudi Aramco augment existing collaboration; more energy research

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MIT President Susan Hockfield and Saudi Aramco President and CEO Khalid A. Al-Falih signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, providing a framework that will greatly expand the research and education partnership between MIT and Saudi Aramco.

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Elon Musk expected to close the Twitter deal by Friday

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While attending Saudi Arabia’s Future Investment Initiative conference on Tuesday, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao said “I think so” when asked if he would stand by his $500 million financial commitment to Elon Musk. It's another sign deal is on track for Friday close.

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Remembering IEEE Director Emeritus Theodore W. Hissey

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While at L&N, Hissey joined a number of technical and standards committees and helped establish IEEE conferences. Those contacts helped Hissey and L&N take on several international projects such as setting up telemetry systems for Aramco , a national oil and natural gas company in Saudi Arabia.

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Opinion: Is Russia Plotting To Bring Down OPEC?

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Denis Khramov, Russia’s deputy Minister of Natural Resources, said September 28 at a conference in Russia’s Far East that Rosneft and Gazprom are delaying some offshore drilling by two to three years because of sanctions and low oil prices. This might persuade the Saudis to seek a compromise with the have nots. Wary of U.S.

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Opinion: Oil Market ShowdownCan Russia Outlast The Saudis?

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In practice, the call for a change is a call for Saudi Arabia and Russia, the two dominant global crude exporters, which each daily export over seven-plus mmbbls (including condensates and NGLs) and which each see the other as the key to any "balancing" moves, to bear the brunt of any production cuts.

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