Energy Outlook Forum, taking place on the same day as the Platts Global Energy Awards.

ABOUT PLATTS GLOBAL ENERGY AWARDS Established in 1999 and widely recognized as the “Oscars” of the energy industry, Platts Global Energy Awards highlight corporate and individual innovation, leadership, and superior performance in 17 categories spanning the entire energy complex.A friend of President Trump's enjoyed broad access to top administration officials in an attempt to influence and profit from U.S. energy policy towards Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries, according to a new report from Democrats on the House Oversight and Reform Committee.

The committee's second interim report on the topic comes after Mr. Trump spent his weekend attacking the committee's black chairman, Rep. Elijah Cummings, on Twitter.

The report, is based on 60,000 pages of new documents, claims longtime Trump friend and inaugural committee chairman Tom Barrack Jr. lobbied top White House officials, including the president, to nominate him for Middle Eastern ambassadorships while promoting U.S. corporations looking to profit from transferring nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia. Barrack ultimately was not nominated for an ambassadorship. In one