Trump Travel Ban Comes Just as World Oil Execs Meet in Texas
- CERAWeek organizer says travel ban hasn’t affected attendance
- Says Trump’s deregulation push is positive for energy industry
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As President Donald Trump was signing his latest travel ban, restricting people from six predominately Muslim countries from entering the U.S., oil and natural gas executives from around the world were gathering in Houston for one of the industry’s biggest events of the year.
The ban, which restricts entry by people from countries including oil-rich Iran and Libya, hasn’t affected attendance at the CERAWeek conference that draws leaders of major energy companies to Texas annually, said Jerre Stead, chairman and chief executive officer of IHS Markit Ltd, which organizes the gathering. Trump’s latest directive removed Iraq from an initial list of seven countries whose citizens can’t travel to the U.S. for the next 90 days.