Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister Khalid Al-Falih is in Washington D.C. on Monday to meet with Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, according to a Reuters report which cited a Trump administration official and the Department of Energy.
Saudi Arabia has markedly increased oil exports to America in recent months, according to Bloomberg.
This weekend, the energy minister and chairman of the board of Saudi Aramco attended the Texas A&M University football game in College Station, Texas, along with secretary Perry and Darren Woods, the chief executive of ExxonMobil.
Secretary Perry will meet with Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak on Thursday in Moscow, according to the same Reuters report.