{"id":44338,"date":"2019-09-30T09:58:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T01:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=44338"},"modified":"2019-09-30T10:00:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T02:00:42","slug":"saudi-arabia-to-invest-100-billion-in-india-eyes-long-term-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=44338","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia To Invest $100 Billion In India, Eyes Long-Term Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEW DELHI, Sept 30 (NNN-PTI) &#8211; Saudi Arabia, the world&#8217;s biggest oil exporter, is looking at investing $100 billion in India, in areas of petrochemicals, infrastructure and mining among others, considering the country&#8217;s growth potential. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saudi Ambassador, Dr Saud bin Mohammed Al Sati, said, India is an attractive investment destination for <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/topic\/saudi-arabia\" target=\"_blank\">Saudi Arabia <\/a>and is eyeing long-term partnerships with New Delhi in key sectors, such as oil, gas and mining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/topic\/saudi-arabia\" target=\"_blank\">Saudi Arabia <\/a>is looking at making investments in India potentially worth $100 billion, in the areas of energy, refining, petrochemicals, infrastructure, agriculture, minerals and mining,&#8221; Al Sati said, in an interview.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said, Saudi Arabia&#8217;s biggest oil giant, Aramco&#8217;s proposed partnership with Reliance Industries Ltd, reflected the strategic nature of the growing energy ties between the two countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The envoy said, investing in India&#8217;s value chain from oil supply, marketing, refining to petrochemicals and lubricants is a key part of Aramco&#8217;s global strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> &#8220;In this backdrop, Saudi Aramco&#8217;s proposed investments in India&#8217;s energy sector, such as the $44 billion West Coast refinery and petrochemical project in Maharashtra, and long term partnership with Reliance, represent strategic milestones in our bilateral relationship,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The envoy said, the vision 2030 of Crown Prince, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/topic\/mohammed-bin-salman\" target=\"_blank\">Mohammed bin Salman&nbsp;<\/a>will also result in significant expansion of trade and business between India and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/topic\/saudi-arabia\" target=\"_blank\">Saudi Arabia <\/a>in diverse sectors. Under vision 2030, Saudi Arabia plans to diversify the Saudi economy, while reducing its economic dependence on petroleum products.&#8211; NNN-PTI <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, Sept 30 (NNN-PTI) &#8211; Saudi Arabia, the world&#8217;s biggest oil exporter, is looking at investing $100 billion in India, in areas of petrochemicals, infrastructure and mining among others, considering the country&#8217;s growth potential. Saudi Ambassador, Dr Saud bin Mohammed Al Sati, said, India is an attractive investment destination for Saudi Arabia and is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":44342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,300,217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44338"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}