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Mukesh Ambani doesn't have much need for a 1% stake in Saudi Aramco

Reliance Industries, a business that's flush with cash and sees its future in technology and zero-carbon chemicals, doesn't really need what Saudi Aramco is offering

Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman
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Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. Photo: Bloomberg

Bloomberg Opinion | David Fickling
Could one of the energy industry’s longest-running on-again, off-again romances be catching fire again? Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman seems to think so. 
 
“There are discussions happening right now about a 1% acquisition by one of the leading energy companies in the world” in state-owned Saudi Arabian Oil Co., he said in a local television interview Tuesday.

Prince Mohammed didn’t disclose which company might make the investment, but you don’t have to be a Jane Austen protagonist to work out the most likely partner. Reliance Industries Ltd., owner of the world’s biggest oil refinery, has been dancing the