Bringing World Class Homes to Dhahran Expansion
Since the 1930s, Saudi Aramco has operated various residential communities to provide company employees and their families with outstanding environments where they can enjoy productive lives.
The Sultan's Fountain
Underneath the paving where traffic now crawls and honks along Port Sa‘id Street in Cairo, until 120 years ago a canal wound through the city, remnant of the ancient waterway that once connected the Nile to the Red Sea. It was filled with water annually during the Nile flood, and thus for eight months of each year, it fed the city’s lakes.
Capturing the Light of the Nile
Speaking as an astronomer, physicist, member of parliament and secretary of the Académie des Sciences, François Arago’s words resonated throughout the land.
New Years Around the World
In a few days many of us will be awaiting the midnight hour, eager to welcome in New Year 2017. If you're at all like me, you'll be asking yourself what happened to 2016? It seems like it started only a few weeks ago. As it says on clock faces everywhere, "Tempus fugit"—i.e., "Time flies."
Welcoming the New Year with Exercise: The Three R's
If you're like me, you make New Years resolutions every year, always with the best of intentions of keeping them, with varied results. High on my list of resolutions this year is to exercise more.
Japan: A Place That Satisfies Body and Soul
When you walk along the roads in Japan, you experience not only the charm of a beautiful country, but you find yourself immersed in a lush, neat, organized greenery, in full harmony with the places of worship and deep spirituality.
Saudi Aramco - Our History
Watch a video compilation of Saudi Aramco from its origins in the 1930s to 2012.
First Trip to the K.S.A.: Chapter XIV
Activities continued with a Mexican meal cooked by Pat & Guy Smyth (always a treat for us), and to kick off the summer, Aramco gave a dance on the clubhouse patio. We went to that with Pat & Guy, Johnny & Mozelle, Ken Cobb, and Desda & Bill. Of course, everyone in camp attended that, so we all mixed & mingled, as usual.
Aramco World - January 2017
Aramco World, Saudi Aramco's flagship publication, is widely recognized as a leading source of nonpolitical coverage of the history, geography, arts and cultures of Saudi Arabia, the Middle East and the wider Islamic world, with an emphasis on the interweavings of the plural cultures of East and West, past and present.
Forum Highlighting Women's Role in Oil Industry
Nearly 200 attendees from Japan’s oil industry and the GCC countries, with about 70% being female, recently gathered in Tokyo for the Friendship Committee for the Women Career Development Open Forum that was hosted by the Japan Cooperation Center, Petroleum (JCCP).
Manifa: An Environmental Success Story
For years, Saudi Aramco and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals have worked together to protect the highly sensitive ecosystem in Manifa. A recent update session at the university shows that not only has the project maintained the integrity of the sensitive marine environment, it has actually enhanced it.
SAEEA Monthly Progress Meeting - Dec. 31, 2016
The meeting of Saudi Aramco Ex-Employees Association (SAEEA) was held on December 31, 2016 at Kamal Farooqi’s Office.
Let’s Work Together to Make Saudi Vision 2030 a Success
Many events have unfolded in the country in the last year and a half, one of the most prominent being Saudi Vision 2030.
International Award for Enterprise Architecture Excellence
The Saudi Aramco EXPEC Computer Center (ECC) recently received an international award from iCMG for Enterprise Architecture Excellence, 2016. Winners in other categories included fortune 100 companies such as IBM, HP, and TATA, among others. The iCMG company is a global leader in providing architectural services.
'Roads' lead to China
With fascinating displays and eye-catching elements of distinct Arab style, the “Roads of Arabia — Archaeological Treasures of Saudi Arabia” exhibit recently made its debut at the National Museum of China in Beijing following successful tours in Europe and North America.
RT Promotes Environment, Energy Awareness
Under the theme “I Can’t Save the Earth, but Together We Can,” the Ras Tanura Refinery (RTR) recently conducted an environmental and energy awareness campaign with approximately 3,000 Saudi Aramco employees, contractors, consultants, families, and students attending.
Use Performance Indicators to Reach Saudi Vision 2030 Goals
It seems inevitable that in every private or public gathering with family or friends, the main focus is on complaints. And mind you, as we moan and groan, and many are quite right in doing so, we do not come up with solutions or remedies for the problems under discussion.
MoU to Establish National Information Technology Academy
Saudi Aramco, along with our strategic partners, recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish the National Information Technology Academy.
Saudi Aramco & Pertamina Sign JV Devt Agreement
Saudi Aramco, the world’s leading integrated energy and petrochemicals enterprise, and PT Pertamina, Indonesia’s state oil and gas company, signed a Joint Venture Development Agreement (JVDA) today, marking a key milestone to enable further progress to jointly own, upgrade and operate the Cilacap Refinery in central Java, Indonesia.
SAEEA 16th Reunion
Saudi Aramco Ex-Employees Association (SAEEA) celebrated its 16th reunion on December 04, 2016 at Pavilion End Club, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, and Rashid Minhas Road, Karachi.