Aramco Raising Oil Prices in Asia
Lesson Brief
Al Sharq Al Awsat
On March 3, Al Sharq Al Awsat reported that Saudi oil giant Aramco is rising its prices of oil in Asia. The decision comes after an extended period of reduced prices of oil products to the continent, the lowest the prices had been since 1989.
This article contains sophisticated and industry-specific terminology and vocabulary. Please do not get discouraged. This article would be difficult for many, many educated native speakers. Several of the vocabulary words selected are probably largely unimportant to your development as an Arabic language student, and at times the content is quite dry; but these are the types of articles that employers will expect you to be able to read without spending all day in a dictionary.
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- (in order) to end
- لتنهي
- recovery, revitilization
- انتعاش
- to grow, to develop
- نَمَى ، يَنْمو
- (profit) margins
- هوامش
- petroleum products
- منتجات بترولية
- to witness
- شَهَدَ ، يَشْهَدُ
- to set at, to fix at
- حَدَّدَ ، يُحَدِّدُ عند
- quantity, amount, level
- مقدار
- compared to, in comparison with
- مقارنة به
- by about, by approximately
- بنحو