For the last 20 years, this website has been a valuable resource for retirees, sharing the latest news, Arabian Sun articles, photos, family updates, and events. It has helped Aramcons stay connected and informed about life at Aramco.
For the past 22 years, you have been the heartbeat of our community, constantly contributing your stories, photos, events, and memories that have brought joy and connection to us all. Your unwavering support has been the foundation upon which Aramco ExPats has thrived.
Photo galleries are a treasured part of the Aramco ExPats website. Over the years, Judy Walker has kindly shared photos from past reunions, Aramco gatherings, and friendly meet-ups in and out of kingdom. She has contributed hundreds of photos, filling our galleries with countless memories.
For nearly 20 years, people have contributed meaningful photos to our Photo of the Week campaign featured in the Aramco ExPats Highlights & Notices newsletter. Be transported back in time as you enjoy this heartwarming look back through our Photo of the Week galleries featuring fond memories and familiar faces.
"Tim Barger’s collection of stories about his years growing up in Aramco are a study in impaired judgment and poor impulse control - yet they are entirely recognizable to any of us who lived in a place where you woke up to the muezzin and went to lunch at the whistle."
For nearly 20 years, people have contributed meaningful photos to our Photo of the Week campaign featured in the Aramco ExPats Highlights & Notices newsletter. Be transported back in time as you enjoy this heartwarming look back through our Photo of the Week galleries featuring fond memories and familiar faces.
This book contains the highlights of my return to live in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the mid-1970s after an absence of 19 years. It was written for the express purpose of recording the events of my life and those of my family and friends during that time as I documented and remembered them.
For nearly 20 years, people have contributed meaningful photos to our Photo of the Week campaign featured in the Aramco ExPats Highlights & Notices newsletter. Be transported back in time as you enjoy this heartwarming look back through our Photo of the Week galleries featuring fond memories and familiar faces.
"Growing up in Dhahran, I was trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent. Except maybe for obedient, thrifty and, almost certainly, brave. As a Boy Scout, after all, I took our Scout Law seriously. Sort of." ~Rick Snedeker
The Aramco Savings Plan, an excellent benefit available to Aramco employees, can help you save toward retirement using pre-tax, Roth and after-tax contributions. Could you be making mistakes that are keeping you from optimizing your benefit? Below we share five common Aramco Savings Plan mistakes as well as tips for avoiding them.
In September, Lou Spencer was in Yellowstone National Park working for a company called Road Scholar as a tour leader. One afternoon in a parking lot called Madison Junction, he ran into David and Susan Jackson, who were his neighbors in Dhahran on 2 Second Sreer.
For nearly 20 years, people have contributed meaningful photos to our Photo of the Week campaign featured in the Aramco ExPats Highlights & Notices newsletter. Be transported back in time as you enjoy this heartwarming look back through our Photo of the Week galleries featuring fond memories and familiar faces.
In 1983 a large group of friends at a cocktail party in Dhahran suddenly realized that they were all eventually going to leave Aramco and return to the four corners of the USA. Jon Foster thought it would be great to have a way to keep in touch. After bouncing around ideas, Jon drew up bylaws reviewed by Bill Klingman, for what became the 1990 Club.
If you’re saving for retirement through the Aramco Savings Plan, it's crucial to understand how the IRS’ required minimum distributions (RMDs) impact you. Once you turn 73 (if born in 1959 or earlier) or 75 (if born in 1960 or later), the IRS mandates withdrawals from your tax-deferred accounts, such as IRAs and 401ks.
For nearly 20 years, people have contributed meaningful photos to our Photo of the Week campaign featured in the Aramco ExPats Highlights & Notices newsletter. Be transported back in time as you enjoy this heartwarming look back through our Photo of the Week galleries featuring fond memories and familiar faces.
The Museums Commission has announced plans to launch a landmark exhibition on the art of the Kingdom to bring Saudi contemporary work to the global stage. The exhibition will tour several countries, introducing international audiences to the vibrant art scene in Saudi Arabia and showcasing the nation’s most prominent contemporary artistic endeavors.
Two remarkable men with Aramco connections dating back some seven decades died two days apart late last month. Bert Seal, a photographer, was a friend with whom I had the pleasure of covering many company reunions in the U.S. and Saudi Arabia. He joined Aramco in 1955 and stayed five years before heading to Libya and winding up in San Diego, Calif., where he continued to ply his avocation.
We are excited to invite you to an informative event hosted by Gabrielle Reilly and Hanna Kennedy, featuring insights from Creative Planning International (formerly Reilly Financial Advisors). Join us at Tandoori House in Dhahran on Tuesday, November 12th at 18:00 for refreshments, appetizers, and guidance on financial topics specific to Aramcons.
Aramco Ras Tanura ex-employees have been holding yearly reunions since 1984 across various parts of the U.K. and also Ireland, Bulgaria and France. In September 2024 the reunion was held at Trentham, Stoke-On-Trent in North Staffordshire, England.
For nearly 20 years, people have contributed meaningful photos to our Photo of the Week campaign featured in the Aramco ExPats Highlights & Notices newsletter. Be transported back in time as you enjoy this heartwarming look back through our Photo of the Week galleries featuring fond memories and familiar faces.