This issue of the Gulf States Newsletter begins with a package on Saudi Arabia's promotion of it's 'Giga projects' with funding from the Public Investment Fund.
The book also includes a detailed map of their progress across Saudi Arabia and an extensive profiling of the contractors in play.
The view explores the increasingly political environment of pipelines in the Strait of Hormuz.
Other stories include Qatar stepping in to mediate between Iran and the United States, the United States ending it's Iraq combat mission and an Abu Dhabi-made guided bomb appearing in Egypt.
This issue's Risk Management Reports are of Kuwait and Oman.