Article: SAUDI ARABIA - Saud Al-Faisal.

Born in 1942, Foreign Minister Prince Saud is also among key decision makers in matters relating to the petroleum sector, being a member of the Supreme Council (see Gas Market Trends). To boost foreign investment in the kingdom his ministry in 2005 instructed all Saudi diplomatic missions abroad to speed up the process of granting visas. Prince Saud is particularly close to King Abdullah. All CEOs of foreign oil companies who have made gas development proposals since late 1998 have met with Prince Saud in his capacity then as chairman of a higher committee on the Saudi Gas Opening. But that opening ended in mid-2003. Since then the petroleum ministry has offered vast areas ...

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