Arabian Gulf energy still vital to the US, says former CIA director David Petraeus | The National

Arabian Gulf energy still vital to the US, says former CIA director David Petraeus | The National:



"The US may be becoming an energy superpower but it still considers oil and gas from the Arabian Gulf as vital, according to the former director of the US Central Intelligence Agency.



David Petraeus, the chairman of the KKR Global Institute and former commander of the US Central Command, said that while the energy boom had extended to Canada and Mexico, the Arabian Gulf’s oil and gas still fuelled the US’s trade partners and would for the foreseeable future.



He was speaking at a lecture on the forthcoming North American decades at the Emirates Centre for Strategic Studies and Research last night."



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