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...That policy was neatly spelt out in 2012 by the then oil minister Ali Al-Naimi, who declared, in a commentary for the FT, that high prices were not just bad for consumers....
...Major General Khaled al-Muhanna, interior ministry spokesperson, said on Sunday that the death toll from the fire had reached 82, with 110 people injured....
...Years working for technocrats such as former ministers Ali Al Naimi and Khalid Al Falih, people close to him say, is a sign of his temperament despite being a prince bestowed with immense privilege....
...The then-oil minister, Ali al-Naimi, pursued a similar strategy of ramping up production in the hope that volume would offset price declines....
...As for Saudi Arabia, the kingdom will have another go at prioritising market share over price, as it did in late 2014, when veteran former oil minister Ali al-Naimi opted for a similar strategy....
...Mr Falih’s predecessor, Ali al-Naimi, held the post for 21 years....
...Saudi Arabian energy minister Ali al-Naimi started considering a different strategy — strangle US shale by raising the kingdom’s own output....
...The former Saudi Arabian oil minister, Ali al-Naimi, used to be fond of saying that if he knew where oil prices were going to go next, he would be sitting on a yacht counting his billions in trading profits...
...He succeeded Ali al-Naimi as energy minister in 2016, leading efforts to cut subsidies and working closely with Russia....
...Outgoing board members include Majid al-Moneef, an adviser to the royal court, and longstanding aide to former oil minister Ali al-Naimi....
...The problems began a few months later after he abruptly reversed course and overturned former oil minister Ali al-Naimi’s market share policy by signing up to repeat the failed Opec quota policy of the early...
...When Ali al-Naimi was told he had been appointed Saudi oil minister, the most powerful post in the energy world, he was far from the desert kingdom....
...I am just a few minutes into my lunch with Ali al-Naimi and we are thousands of miles away in another era, racing across the sands of eastern Saudi Arabia on his mother’s white camel....
...The kingdom has to come to terms with the heritage of former oil minister Ali al-Naimi. Price stability, which Mr Naimi valued greatly, no longer works in its favour. Volatility does....
...Then, minister Ali al-Naimi bluntly warned shale producers that they must trim their costs or risk bankruptcy....
...In doing so, his approach to Opec peers and rival producers has been more conciliatory than his predecessor, Ali al-Naimi, whose position he took over in May....
...of the “house divided” quotation (Letters, November 8): in your book review “From office boy to world’s most powerful oilman” (November 21), the comment attributed to an unnamed US ambassador about Ali al-Naimi...
...Assaf, 67, had been finance minister since 1996, becoming a close ally of the late King Abdullah, whose death last year triggered a raft of sweeping ministerial changes, including the removal in May of Ali al-Naimi...
...Speculation about Ali al-Naimi’s retirement has been a favourite guessing game in the oil market for well over a decade....
...Other changes included the replacement of the central bank governor Fahd al-Mubarak with his deputy Ahmed al-Kholifey....
...“Ali al-Naimi is not a political guy at all....
...Saudi oil adviser Ibrahim al-Muhanna said on Thursday that “the door for future co-operation remains open”....
...Earlier this year, former oil minister Ali al-Naimi said oil prices were “irrelevant”....
...In June, shortly after his appointment, Mr Falih set about repairing relations with those who had been alienated by his dogmatic predecessor, Ali al Naimi, who often talked down to members he believed wanted...
...the result of political realignment in the Saudi royal family, which has led to the abandonment of the approach adopted by the deputy crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, and the former oil minister Ali al-Naimi...
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