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Saudi Arabia maps path to lockdown exit

  • Mercados: Oil products
  • 26/05/20

Saudi Arabia's government has approved changes to the country's movement restrictions to be made after the Eid-al-Fitr holiday, including a resumption of domestic flights.

The country is in full lockdown for the holiday period, which ends tomorrow. Starting from the following day, the government will narrow the curfew to between 15:00 and 06:00 and will permit travelling between regions and cities in private vehicles outside those times.

From 31 May the curfew will be narrowed further, to between 20:00 and 06:00, and movement between cities and regions will be allowed on all forms of transport outside those hours. Domestic flights will also resume at the same time. The government will remove the curfew completely from 21 June, although it said all the changes may be subject to revision.

Saudi Arabia is the Middle East's biggest gasoline and gasoil consumer — gasoline demand averaged 550,000 b/d and gasoil demand averaged 529,000 b/d in 2019, according to the Joint Organisations Data Initiative (Jodi).


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