The five-day World Petroleum Congress began in Riyadh on the 11th. Multiple
international energy majors withdrew after four attacks by Yemen’s Houthi
militants on Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport over the past week. BP
said travel was "disrupted" and its delegation could not attend. The FT reports
the CEOs of ExxonMobil, TotalEnergies and Shell also declined to attend.
Germany’s economy and energy minister Katrin Reiche, who planned to return on
the 12th, was stranded in Riyadh after flight cancellations; German authorities
are arranging a return flight.
