A two-hour call ... Angry American lawmakers are calling on Saudi Arabia to immediately cut oil production

Republican members of the US Senate from the oil producing states said they had called for two hours with three officials from Saudi Arabia, and demanded that they take concrete action to reduce crude oil production.

Senator Dan Sullivan said after the phone call that took place on Saturday that Saudi Arabia's increase in oil production during the Corona epidemic was "without excuse" and "will not be forgotten."

However, Sullivan praised what he saw as a first step to solving the problem of dumping oil markets, and said that Saudi Arabia should now take the initiative to cut production.

Saudi Arabia, Russia and their allies - who together make up the OPEC Plus group - reached an agreement to cut oil production by 10% of total global supplies, in lengthy talks on Thursday, and they said they want other producers to cut another 5%.

Oil prices fell to their lowest level in 18 years in light of the Corona epidemic, which caused the cessation of economic activities around the world, and after Saudi Arabia and Russia increased their production in a race for market shares.

Earlier, CNN reported that 13 members of the US Senate from oil producing states expressed frustration with the oil price war, which is hurting American producers and threatens to undermine US-Saudi relations.

The channel quoted an unnamed source, saying that the members of the group will speak to the Saudi Energy Minister on Saturday, and they do not intend to curb their anger, and will press for a solution.

Texas is angry
Another source said that Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz had clearly declared that "Texas was angry", describing the anger of Senators that he had not heard of this group before.

The American channel reported that Senators fear that their electoral rules will be disrupted if American producers are exposed to financial pressure, which will hurt the economy even more at this sensitive moment in which more than 16 million Americans have submitted unemployment applications in the past three weeks.

Call with the ambassador
The channel quoted Republican Senator Dan Sullivan (from Alaska), confirming that the messages sent by the members of the group in a telephone conversation with the Saudi ambassador to the United States, Princess Rima Bint Bandar Al Saud, late last month, clearly showed that they would not only re-evaluate relations, Rather, they will take steps that threaten the long relationships that most of them have been supporting.

CNN said a bill had already been presented to withdraw US forces from Saudi Arabia, and there was discussion of imposing sanctions if Saudi Arabia did not help find a solution.

She added that during the conversation between Princess Rima and the angry Senators, the ambassador tried to summarize the conversation and provide points for discussion, but they did not allow her to do so.

They explained to her that losing Saudi support would lead to the kingdom losing its lifeline in Congress, and that after the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, support for Saudi Arabia had decreased significantly in Washington, and they told her that without the support of these sheikhs, anti-Saudi legislation would increase more and more.

Senator Sullivan stated that last week when Senators met President Donald Trump, he asked him to stand with American oil producers.

Sullivan added that they made it clear to Trump - who is very afraid of hitting the American economy due to the Corona epidemic - that the oil industry played a big role in lifting the United States out of the recession in 2008-2009.

It is noteworthy that Trump made efforts last week to mediate a solution to the crisis during phone calls to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, and the King of Saudi Arabia, Salman bin Abdulaziz and his Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.