Is Oil-And-Gas Friendship Possible Between Russia and Saudi Arabia?

... countries and with the existing strategic contradictions between Saudi Arabia and Russia, Moscow will find working with the two Middle Eastern countries at once to be an extremely difficult balancing act. The oil-and-gas cooperation plans recently announced by Russia and Saudi Arabia may sound like part of a rapprochement trend. Yet one should ... ... assume that the recent intensification of Russian-Saudi energy dialogue is nothing more than a forced temporary friendship. 1 . OPEC Monthly Oil Market Report – November 2016 , pp 44, 57.