Ali Naimi, the Saudi oil minister, usually moves markets when he speaks.

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Saudi oil minister Ali Naimi said countries around the world needed to work together to ensure energy supplies remained "secure and reasonably priced".

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In January, Ali Naimi, the Saudi oil minister, said that the world's largest oil producer aimed to keep oil prices at the triple-digit level throughout 2012.

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Saudi Arabia's oil minister, Ali Naimi, points to an unexplored area on the Iraqi-Saudi border the size of California, and argues that such untapped resources could add 200 billion barrels to his country's tally.

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Before things get that far, Washington will re-plead its case to Saudi Arabia to open the taps, or at the very least prompt Ali Naimi (the long standing Saudi oil minister) to quell the market with the right kind of supply side messages.

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Stephen Hadley, Bush's national security adviser, said Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi reiterated his pledge to give customers all the oil they want.

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Saudi Arabia's energy minister, Ali al-Naimi, is now urging petroleum exporters to raise the supply of oil in order to bring prices down.

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But it is Ali al-Naimi, Saudi Arabia's oil minister, whose word really counts: he has responsibility for a quarter of the world's oil reserves.

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Among other assignments, Al-Tunisi launched Aramco's first commodity forecasts--which she broached, with trepidation, before a dozen directors, including Chairman Ali Al-Naimi and President Abdallah Jum'ah.

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