VOL. XXXIV

NO. 10

10-DECEMBER-1990

Gulf Crisis

US Energy Secretary Tours Saudi Arabia and UAE; Seeks Stable Oil Market inEvent of War

US Energy Secretary James Watkins met with Mr. Hisham Nazer, the SaudiArabian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, during a two-day visit tothe Kingdom on 2-3 December. According to reports, the two men discussed"US plans to use the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in case hostilities brokeout and a real shortage emerged." The Saudi Government told Mr. Watkins...