Experts in unconventional oil and gas gathered at the Unconventionals Resources Technology Conference (URTeC) in San Antonio, Texas, in early August to exchange new technologies and best practices in the exploration and production of unconventional oil and gas.
Hello to my fellow Aramco ExPats, Aramcons are a widely-divergent group geographically, culturally, in just about every way there is to be different.
Last week we began a piece on ZeeMaps with the headline, “Where in the World are Aramco Expats?” After one week, and a number of refinements, this new feature is running well and more and more Aramcons are signing on.
The state of affairs in the subcontinent is alarming. The high-pitched frenzy of hatred and toxic words by established and wannabe public figures has affected a large segment of the population, especially in India where the Defense Minister in an irresponsible and totally undiplomatic manner said that going to Pakistan was “akin to a visit to Hell.”
It is almost impossible to talk about an armed conflict without the fear of the unseen and unwanted consequences. In such a situation, nobody could rule out the possibility of civilian casualties.
The horribly sad images of the Syrian boy pulled from the rubble of a building destroyed in an airstrike in Aleppo are still fresh in our minds. We should not forget that there are tens of thousands like him and many of them were not as lucky as Omran.
The marriage of Lisa Jackson, daughter of Diane Jackson of Payson, Arizona, 1969-1982, Dhahran and Ras Tanura, and the late Carl Jackson, 1956-1982 Dhahran and Ras Tanura, took place in Chicago on August 19, 2016 to Robert Lucas.
When one hears the mention of Mount Everest or Annapurna, it immediately conjures up images of the towering snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas, spread across Nepal and Tibet and beyond.
Over the span of three centuries in times past, when the lookout perched atop a crow's nest on a whaling ship spied a whale surfacing and blowing air out of its blowhole, he would cry, "There she blows!"
From kindergarten until fourth grade, I went to a French Catholic school in Toronto, Canada. I started my first year at an English school when my family moved to Saudi Arabia, and I began school at Saudi Aramco.
Saudi Aramco and its Research and Development (R&D) collaboration partner, JGC Catalysts and Chemicals — a leading catalyst developer and manufacturer in Japan — have been awarded the 2015 International Technology Exchange Award by the Japan Petroleum Institute (JPI).
This was our 122nd party and we are here to celebrate Independence Day i.e. 14th August 2016, Day of happiness, Day of joy and the Day of Sacrifices.
The meeting of Saudi Aramco Ex-Employees Association (SAEEA) held on August 13, 2016 at SAEEA general Secretary, Ghulam Qutubuddin house.
The moment of truth for Americans and the world will be decided on November 8. In the coming weeks, the frenzy of the election campaign between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will reach an all-time high. Of all the US presidential campaigns, this one stands out as the most vicious.
The 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio has come to an end. Many countries around the world are celebrating their athletes’ achievements in the tournament. Unfortunately, we are left to rejoice only one Olympics-related accomplishment i.e. sending female athletes from the Kingdom to participate in different events for the first time in the history of Olympics.
The first known production of wine dates from over 6,000 years ago to a site in present-day Armenia where archeologists have unearthed remnants of wine production dating from 4100 BCE that include a wine press and fermentation vats.
San Francisco - The Saudi Aramco Board of Directors met during the first week of August in San Francisco. During the weekly call with company management, presided over by then acting CEO Ahmad A. Al Sa’adi, details of the activities of the Board of Directors were shared.
Joint effort with global aspirations on sand management and desert environment protection: Tottori University’s Arid Land Research Center (ALRC) and Aramco Asia-Japan signs agreement on dryland research collaboration.
Saudi Aramco Ex-Employees Association (SAEEA) celebrated its 15th Reunion, 6th Anniversary, Eid Milan and Third General Election on July 31, 2016 at Lasania Restaurant, Gulshan Iqbal, in Karachi.
Obaid Ur Rehman is the eldest son of Dr. Ata Ur Rehman and Dr. Kiran A. Rehman and the grandson of Engr. Iqbal Ahmed Khan, V.P. of Saudi Aramco Ex-Employees Association Karachi (SAEEA).