KAPSARC

since 2013
  • 51-200 employees
  • Think Tanks

KAPSARC

King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC) is an advisory think tank within global energy economics and sustainability providing services to entities and authorities in the Saudi energy sector. KAPSARC is one of the most empowered think tanks in the world.

Based in Riyadh, we are a community of thinkers combining human ingenuity, expertise, and research to solve pressing global energy challenges. Through our advisory services to the energy ecosystem, KAPSARC’s experts provide day-to-day insights and updates using a multidisciplinary team approach to drive long-term value and deliver tangible results at scale.

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Are Automakers Overcharging Consumers for Electric Vehicle Batteries?
  • 15 Oct 2024

Vehicle electrification is a major component of many sustainability goals and frameworks. Research suggests that battery costs account for a large portion of the price premium for electric vehicles...

By KAPSARC In Commodities, Sustainability, Thematic / Megatrends
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The Unfolding Potential of GCC China Collaboration on Critical Minerals
  • 15 Oct 2024

As a clean energy system begins to be implemented worldwide, the demand for critical minerals is expected to increase dramatically in the coming decades. Thus, demonstrating how mineral collaborati...

By KAPSARC In Thematic / Megatrends, Commodities, Emerging Markets
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Azerbaijan: Energy, Carbon, and Opportunities
  • 14 Oct 2024

At the end of 2023, after prolonged discussions, Azerbaijan was selected as the host country of the 2024 United Nations climate summit, COP29. Like the two preceding hosts of COP28 and COP27, the U...

By KAPSARC In Commodities, Thematic / Megatrends, Sustainability, Emerging Markets
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Enabling Net-Zero Shipping An Expert Review-Based Agenda for Emerging Techno-Economic and Policy Research
  • 14 Oct 2024

Net-zero shipping is emerging as a global priority, underscored by the shipping sector’s increasing projected contribution to climate change, making it critical to understand the emerging associate...

By KAPSARC In Sustainability, Commodities, Equities, Thematic / Megatrends
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Facilitating the Low-Carbon Hydrogen Market: Opportunities, Challenges, and Pathways
  • 14 Oct 2024

The hydrogen industry is at a turning point, as regulatory frameworks and incentive schemes begin to take shape. However, there are still barriers for market participants to commit to production pr...

By KAPSARC In Sustainability, Thematic / Megatrends, Private Markets
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Geothermal Energy – A Rising Powerhouse? A Global Technical Review and Applications for Saudi Arabia
  • 14 Oct 2024

The Earth’s core, which is as hot as the sun, contains a large amount of thermal energy insulated by impermeable rocks. This energy, totaling 15 million zetta joules, dwarfs traditional energy sour...

By KAPSARC In Commodities, Emerging Markets
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Unraveling the Black Market for Oil: The Complex Web of Phantom Trade and Its Reverberating Effects on Energy Security, Trade Balances, and Social Welfare
  • 14 Oct 2024

In the energy market, the black market1 for oil embodies the ancient parable of the blind men and the elephant. Just as the blind men each touched a different part of the elephant and experienced o...

By KAPSARC In Thematic / Megatrends, Commodities, Sustainability
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Saudi Arabia and the Circular Carbon Economy: From Vision to Implementation
  • 06 Oct 2024

This case study shows how the Circular Carbon Economy (CCE) Index can be used to analyze a country’s CCE performance and enablers in a holistic manner and in a comparative context, relative to othe...

By KAPSARC In Emerging Markets, Sustainability, Portfolio Construction
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Understanding the Role of Renewable Energy in Import Demand for Petrochemicals Is the Prevailing Perception More Imagined Than Real?
  • 06 Oct 2024

The prevailing perception is that the transition to renewable energy ­will lead to a decrease in demand for hydrocarbons and petrochemicals. The pre­sent work empirically demonstrates that this com...

By KAPSARC In Commodities, Sustainability
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