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Oil giant Saudi to become solar power centre


PARIS (AFP) - Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, plans to
become an
expert in another, cleaner field of energy by investing in solar power, the
country's oil minister said in an interview released Sunday.

"For a country like Saudi Arabia ... one of the most important sources of
energy
to look at and to develop is solar energy," Ali al-Nuaimi told French oil
newsletter Petrostrategies.

He added: "One of the research efforts that we are going to undertake is to
see
how we make Saudi Arabia a centre for solar energy research and hopefully
over
the next 30 to 50 years we will be a major megawatt exporter.

"In the same way we are an oil exporter, we can also be an exporter of
power."
Saudi Arabia produces more than 10 million barrels of crude oil a day.
Nuaimi said that Saudi Arabia was also set to invest in carbon capture and
storage programmes to develop technology allowing carbon dioxide to be
extracted
from the atmosphere and stored underground.

"There are a lot of countries that are willing to cooperate with us," he
said.
At a summit in Riyadh last November, Gulf OPEC members pledged 750 million
dollars (500 million euros) to a new fund to tackle global warming through
financing research for clean technologies, with the emphasis on carbon
capture
and storage.

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