Tower Center Senior Fellow and former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Robert Jordan was interviewed by Rigzone to discuss the effects of the shale revolution, which vastly stimulated U.S. production of oil, on jobs in Saudi Arabia and the Saudi-U.S. relationship.
“The traditional view of the relationship with the Saudis is that it’s based on oil, God and real estate” Jordan told Rigzone. “That was certainly the arrangement the United States has had with the Saudis beginning with Franklin Roosevelt in 1945. But it’s about much more than oil.”
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