Egyptian newspaper, al-Masry al-Yom reported this week on what it is foreseeing will become Yemen - Saudi Arabia new Oil conflict.
Until 2012, Yemeni officials' rhetoric revolve around the accepted belief that the poorest country of the Arabian Peninsula was running out of oil and gas.
It is important to note that experts' discovery of large resources of petrol, most of which is said to be in basement (trap deep with earth pockets) were only made public in 2012, upon the departure from power of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
As Yemen is embracing its new found natural resources, which according to estimates are worth several billions of dollars in revenues, Saudi Arabia, the region's oil giant and political super-power seems less than keen on welcoming its unruly neighbor within the fold.
Although much of Yemen oil resources have yet to be cataloged and quantified, preliminary observations are leading experts to believe that Yemen could be home to much of the world's oil and gas resources, maybe just as much as Saudi Arabia itself.
If such estimates would turn our to be indeed true, Yemen would be sitting on an immense fortune, one which could resolve all of the nation's crises: poverty, high unemployment, poor state facilities, illiteracy.
If anything to gauge from neighboring oil states which saw their state revenues explode under the sheer weight of petro-dollars,Yemen could be the next region' economic success story.
If let to its own devise, Yemen could become the Peninsula new power-house.
With a population of 24 million and counting, vast natural resources, more arable lands than its neighbors combined, a key geo-strategic position within the region and an enviable military potential, Yemen has the making of greatness.
The very idea of Yemen outwitting Saudi Arabia is no laughing matter to the royals, who, since their rise to power in 1932 have worked at keeping their neighbor in check as to assert their house hegemony.
Having failed to control the whole of Arabia in 1934 when its armies broke before Imam Yehia, the then-leader of Yemen, only managing to seize the provinces of Jizan, Asir, and Najran, political analysts are warning that the region could yet see another border conflict in between Yemen and Saudi Arabia, as the race for regional hegemony will arise.
The premises of the crisis al-Masry al-Yom argues are already visible in that Saudi Arabia decided to resume the construction of its border fence with Yemen.