New American ambassador to Saudi Arabia

The White House on Monday announced that the US President George W. Bush chose one of the major industrialists working in the field of oil to be the US ambassador in Saudi Arabia.

The new ambassador who is very close to the Bush family is Jim Oberwetter, who currently occupies the post of the vice president for Public and Government Affairs in the Hunt Oil company.

He is also a member in the general company for telecommunications at the American Oil Institute and one of the most important pressure centers ( Lobby) of oil industry in the USA.

The Institute represents some 400 oil companies and establishments concerned with oil and gas at all levels. Oberwetter worked previously with President George Bush, the father, when he was a member at the Congress and then joined the team of Bush, the father after he had become a President in 1988.