US oil giants flee the UAE Oil companies ExxonMobil and Chevron have canceled travel plans for their top executives to the United Arab Emirates to attend the ADIPEC oil conference next week due to security concerns. Adipec is the world's largest annual energy exhibition and conference, held in Abu Dhabi and hosted by the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. This action by the American companies comes at a time when the American State Department also ordered the departure of several diplomats from Saudi Arabia last week, and American officials also announced the evacuation of their families from several other missions in the region.

US oil giants flee the UAE Oil companies ExxonMobil and Chevron have canceled travel plans for their top executives to the United Arab Emirates to attend the ADIPEC oil conference next week due to security concerns. Adipec is the world's largest annual energy exhibition and conference, held in Abu Dhabi and hosted by the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. This action by the American companies comes at a time when the American State Department also ordered the departure of several diplomats from Saudi Arabia last week, and American officials also announced the evacuation of their families from several other missions in the region.