GCC Hydrocarbon Economies and COVID: Old Trends, New Realities [Hardcover]

The book considers the impact of COVID-19 on the GCC member states through the prism of challenges faced by their hydrocarbon sector. Yet, the publications discourse is not solely focused on the problems experienced by the oil and gas industries of the GCC member states after the beginning of the COVID pandemic. Instead, the contributors will analyze how these challenges and subsequent response to them affected other aspects of the GCC socio-economic and political development, from direct impact of the COVID on the energy sector of the GCC to socio-economic consequences of the oil market crisis for the region and its potential fallouts for the international relations of the Gulf. 

Part 1 Gulf Energy Sector and the COVID-19.- Chapter 1 GCC Oil Industry Response to the COVID-19 Challenge.- Chapter 2 Qatar LNG Industry in the post-COVID Period.- Chapter 3 Renewable Energy Prospects in the GCC in the Post-COVID era.- Part 2 Socio-Economic Dimensions of the Oil Market Crisis.- Chapter 4 Surviving Covid: The Economic Policy Response.- Chapter 5 The Covid-19 Pandemic and the Institutional Changes in the GCC.- Chapter 6 The GCC Sovereign Wealth Funds and the Oil Shock.- Chapter 7 Falling Oil Incomes and Migrant Communities of the GCC.- Chapter 8 Climate Change and the GCC: Economic and Environmental Impact.- Part 3 GCC International Relations during the Pandemic Times.- Chapter 9 Gulf Energy Security during the COVID-19 and after: From the Security of Supply to the Security of Demand.- Chapter 10 Iran, Saudi Arabia and the USA: Energy Security and Invested Interests.- Chapter 11 The Issue of the Global Oil Market Recovery and the future of the OPEC.

Nikolay Kozhanov is a Research Associate Professor at the Gulf Studies Center of Qatar University. He is also a Non-Resident Scholar at the Program on Economics and Energy at the Middle East Institute. Hil`