For thousands of years, people in the Middle East have made a living from date palms, harvesting the fruit, and turning the leaves into baskets and mats. But, what connects Saudi Arabia’s ancient date plantations to Aramco’s oil and gas operations, which are less than 100 years old?
Beckles Willson’s own skillful playing won her a place at the Royal Academy of Music studying piano performance, and she later became a concert pianist. By the time Beckles Willson obtained her doctorate from London’s King’s College in 2003, she chose to focus on academia, hoping to balance performance and research.
We welcome you to 2024 with some great news and updates from Lahore on the Aramco Retirees Association – Pakistan (ARAP). In December 2023, we successfully launched and opened applications to our friends and colleagues to join ARAP in the spirit of reuniting and reigniting our everlasting and unbreakable Aramco bonds and friendships.
I, Mohammed Ifteqaruddin Badge #140948, Technical Advisor Mechanical Services, Ras-Tanura Refinery Maintenance Department, Safety Relief Valve Shop Segment arrived in Sydney, Australia on January 16, 2024, to visit my daughter, son-in-law, and grandchildren; I'd like to share my experience with you.
NED Alumni Australia (Sydney) arranged a party in honor of Engr. Lt. Col® Javed Majid Siddiqui - CEO of Rehmat Ul Alameen Welfare Organization Pakistan (RAWO) a graduate of NEDUET in Civil Engineering 1967. Javed Sahib is currently visiting Sydney, Australia as his son Engr. Shahid Majid lives there.
The progress meeting of Saudi Aramco Ex-Employees Association (SAEEA) was held on January 20, 2024 at Faran Club, Karachi. This was the 1st meeting of the current year 2024. The meeting was delayed because of the sad demise of the grandson of the SAEEA President. Also, the event of SHERO O ADAB is delayed.
Operating in the Arabian Gulf for more than 80 years, with some of the world’s largest offshore oil and gas fields, Aramco has learned a lot about the waters in which we work. Extracting energy from the deep waters, safely and reliably, is a serious business — and the company has been collecting data for decades to set a benchmark for its activities.
AramcoWorld, 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.
The waning months of 1956 are history-making for the Middle East. King Saud hosts a first-ever summit of Arab leaders with high hopes of healing ancient tensions and establishing new and mutually beneficial diplomatic and economic relations.
I came to Dhahran on February 13, 1949. I was eleven. Each Christmas in the Field at Dhahran was memorable because the Company did so much for us. They strung a cable and mounted a star at the softball field. At the evening celebrations, the Nativity featured real animals - camels, donkeys and sheep...
As many as 300 species and three billion individual birds cross Saudi Arabia every spring and autumn, as they migrate between their breeding grounds in Eurasia and wintering grounds in east Africa.
After decades of decline under communist rule, food enthusiasts— including brother chef and baker Bledar and Nikolin Kola—are pioneering the return of the country’s traditional dishes. Chefs and other culinary aficionados are drawing on Albania’s 500-plus years of culinary heritage to reinterpret the foods of their ancestors. Their efforts are re-establishing traditions that were feared lost.
Salzburg was the scene of our first car malfunction when one of our tyres burst! We stayed the night in a hotel overlooking the castle and took in the city while waiting a replacement. We really only had time to visit the Cathedral and gardens...
The King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra) opens Searching for Light, an enlightening retrospective of the work of British photographer Peter Sanders, whose career spans more than five decades photographing Muslim people, places, and culture.
The Aramco Retirees Association Pakistan (ARAP) successfully completed the initial member registration phase on December 31, 2023, the first 2024 quarterly meeting on January 7, 2024, and approved the following appointments to look after ARAP’s day-to-day affairs...
The Saudi Aramco Ex-Employees Association, Hyderabad, general body meeting took place at the Moulana Azad Oriental Research Centre in Public Garden, Hyderabad, Telangana on December 31, 2023. The event commenced at 2:30 PM with the recitation of the Quran by Mr G. Ansari setting a respectful tone.
NED69ers are spread all over the globe with most relatives residing in Karachi and other parts of Pakistan. Recently, Engr. Shakil Haider (Civil) came to visit his family in Karachi for a special occasion. Engr. Cdr. ® Najam Ul Hasnain took the initiative and arranged a get-together dinner at DHA Club on January 15, 2024 in Karachi.
The marriage ceremony of Nausheen Samad, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samadullah Khan, was held on 6th January 2024. The ceremony took place at Lawn “A” of Aviation Officers Mess (CAA Club) on Shahrah-E-Faisal Karachi Airport Hajj Terminal.
In 1978 six socialist republics made up the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. These were Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia. The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes had been formed in 1918 after WWI and subsequently became the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929.
As part of our yearlong celebration, we are launching a new biweekly newsletter that will transport you back through the decades of our global connections. To kick things off, we highlight our 2024 calendar, with 12 months of friendly faces from AramcoWorld stories...