Petro Diplomacy
Previous Events
Jun 11, 2024
Petro Diplomacy 2024: The Countdown to Net Zero
On June 11, AGSIW convened its 10th annual Petro Diplomacy conference.
Jun 27, 2023 - Jun 28, 2023
Petro Diplomacy 2023: The Energy Transition and the Road to COP28
On June 27 and 28, AGSIW convened its ninth annual Petro Diplomacy conference.
Oct 20, 2022 - Oct 21, 2022
Petro Diplomacy 2022: Gulf Countries on the Front Line of Energy Security
On October 20 and 21, AGSIW convened its eighth annual Petro Diplomacy conference.
Oct 19, 2021 - Oct 21, 2021
Petro Diplomacy 2021: Gulf Countries in a Net-Zero World
For the seventh consecutive year, AGSIW convened its Petro Diplomacy conference.
Oct 20, 2020 - Oct 22, 2020
Petro Diplomacy 2020
For the sixth consecutive year, AGSIW convened its Petro Diplomacy conference, this year virtually.
Oct 2, 2019
Petro Diplomacy: Challenges to the Energy Transition in the Gulf Countries
For the fifth consecutive year, AGSIW convened its Petro Diplomacy conference, bringing together private and public sector stakeholders to discuss emerging trends in energy markets and regional politics.
Speakers
Petro Diplomacy: Back to the Future – Oil and Gas at the Center of New Growth in the GCC States
For its fourth consecutive year, AGSIW convened its Petro Diplomacy conference to discuss how changes in technology, fiscal priorities, and opportunities for growth continue to alter the relationship between politics and energy for the region and beyond.
Sep 25, 2017
Petro Diplomacy: Navigating the New Oil Era
The international oil industry is in the midst of writing a new chapter in its long-storied history, with a massive restructuring underway to meet the challenges of a new lower oil price world. For its third annual conference, AGSIW brought together experts from the oil industry, finance, government, and academia to discuss critical issues facing...
Sep 19, 2016
Petro Diplomacy: Challenges in the New Energy World
A protracted period of dramatically lower oil prices has ushered in momentous challenges for Gulf Arab states and oil producing countries around the world. AGSIW hosted a daylong conference, “Petro Diplomacy: Challenges in the New Energy World,” focusing on key drivers of the oil price outlook, upstream oil investment strategies, economic and energy policy reforms...
Apr 27, 2015
Petro Diplomacy: The Political Economy of Volatile Oil Prices
This event focused on the recent dramatic fall in the price of oil, the motivations behind OPEC’s decision to maintain production levels, and the implications of low oil prices for shale producers, offshore drilling, and alternative energy development. The discussion further examined the effect of continued volatility in oil prices on Gulf States and other...
Previous Reports
Event Report – Petro Diplomacy: The Energy Transition and the Road to COP28
AGSIW's ninth annual Petro Diplomacy conference examined how the Gulf Cooperation Council countries are managing the energy transition and expectations for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP28, in Dubai beginning in November.
Event Report – Petro Diplomacy: Gulf Countries on the Front Line of Energy Security
The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington's eighth annual Petro Diplomacy conference examined the upheaval in the oil and gas markets following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the role of Gulf Arab oil producing states in meeting the sudden demand surge.
Event Report – Petro Diplomacy: Gulf Countries in a Net-Zero World
AGSIW's seventh annual Petro Diplomacy conference examined the energy transition and ways in which the Gulf petrostates are positioning themselves for a net-zero environment.
Event Report: Petro Diplomacy 2020
AGSIW's sixth annual Petro Diplomacy conference focused on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the energy sector and the transition to a low carbon economy.
Petro Diplomacy: Challenges to the Energy Transition in the Gulf Countries
On October 2, AGSIW held its fifth annual Petro Diplomacy conference, exploring what measures the oil-producing states are adopting to manage the global transition to renewables and alternative energy sources and how this will impact demand for oil in the decades ahead.
Petro Diplomacy: Back to the Future – Oil and Gas at the Center of New Growth in the GCC
On October 18, 2018, the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington convened its fourth annual Petro Diplomacy conference, “Back to the Future – Oil and Gas at the Center of New Growth in the GCC States.”
Petro Diplomacy: Navigating the New Oil Era
On September 25, 2017, speakers and discussants from the oil industry, finance, government, and academia convened in Washington to examine the challenges of navigating the new oil era at the third annual Petro Diplomacy conference.
Petro Diplomacy: Challenges in the New Energy World
Oil, economic growth, and politics have long been intertwined in the Middle East, transforming the region over the past 50 years into a dynamic player on the global stage.
Petro Diplomacy: The Political Economy of Volatile Oil Prices
In June 2014, the price of oil, projected to continue increasing to at least $125 to $150 per barrel WTI, collapsed within six months to just under $50 per barrel.
