Aramco’s significant capital investment to boost Saudi Arabia’s natural gas production advanced recently when more than $25 billion of 69 engineering, procurement and construction contracts were awarded to several local and international companies.
Abdul Qader Al Rais, godfather of Emirati fine arts who is known for his magical mastery of kaleidoscopic color, started his childhood in colorless poverty. “All you could find then was black, and maybe just a bit of blue paint,” recalled the man whose versatility with the paintbrush for almost 60 years created masterpieces of what can best be described as magical realism.
Aramco has extensive high-quality gas reserves and exclusive access to the Kingdom's large and growing domestic marketplace. The company's strategic journey to expand its sales gas production-targets growth of more than 60% by 2030, compared to 2021 levels.
Since its beginnings 75 years ago, AramcoWorld’s editors have viewed architecture as an essential lens on history and a crucible for cultural connections. Early stories, in particular, added human context to a discipline that often focused on the form of buildings with little regard for the people who created and used them.
Aramco today (July 18) announced that it has completed a bond issuance of $6 billion. The issuance is comprised of three tranches of USD-denominated senior unsecured notes under Aramco’s Global Medium Term Note Program (“GMTN”).
Mother and Aunt Samia carried out large trays of food into the sitting room where the cloths and plates had been laid. The food smelled delicious! Although the children wanted to hear Uncle Hasan's story, they were now only interested in the food before them.
Aramco has signed definitive agreements to acquire an equity interest in the Jubail-based Blue Hydrogen Industrial Gases Company (BHIG), a wholly owned subsidiary of Air Products Qudra (APQ).
F1 in Schools is a global educational program that aims to raise awareness of STEM in school students through a competition to develop a miniature F1 car. Endorsed by Formula 1, the globally popular motorsport championship, and organized by UK-based company F1 in Schools Ltd...
Thanks to children who kicked up little pieces of red ceramics while playing on a hilltop in 1977, the town of Mértola, Portugal, is now rediscovering its Islamic past.
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.
Mutual belief in the idea of a universal order drew Muslim scholars to Indus Valley knowledge, and their translations advanced the trans-civilizational endeavor we today call science. This story is an example of AramcoWorld's 75 years of highlighting historical influences on knowledge today.
Aramco’s Yanbu’ Refinery is an integral part of our refining, chemicals, and marketing portfolio, one responsible for providing critical feedstock and essential fuels to meet the Kingdom’s energy needs. Commissioned in 1983 along Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coast...
Aramco has awarded contracts worth more than $25 billion to progress its strategic gas expansion, which targets sales gas production growth of more than 60% by 2030, compared to 2021 levels.
Aramco, through a wholly owned subsidiary, has signed definitive agreements to acquire a 10% equity interest in HORSE Powertrain Limited, the new global powertrain solutions company, alongside Renault Group, Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, and Geely Automobile Holdings Limited (“Geely”).
The Golden Spider Silk exhibition at the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar, showcases four textiles, including a cape that incorporates silk threads from 1.2 million golden orb-weavers.
About the size of a tablet computer, astrolabes were tools of astronomers, surveyors and navigators, to name a few. But using them took a lot more than typing, tapping and swiping.
Azerbaijan has sat at a crossroads of Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Western Asia for centuries as a Silk Road hub and a gateway that empires routinely fought to control. That intersection also has manifested itself in the nation’s food—a complex and enticing stew of Turkic, Persian, Eastern European and other regional influences. This food diary explores the unique cuisines of each of the country's regions.
Aramco, one of the world’s leading integrated energy and chemicals companies, and NextDecade Corporation (NextDecade) announced today that their respective subsidiaries have executed a non-binding Heads of Agreement (HoA) for a 20-year liquefied natural gas sale and purchase agreement (LNG SPA) for offtake from Train 4 at the Rio Grande LNG Facility at the Port of Brownsville, Texas, USA.
Underwater photographer and writer Eric Hanauer’s work for AramcoWorld exposed an entirely new audience to the rich marine life of the Red Sea. From his home in California, he reflects on his four-plus-decade career.
The depiction of the Taj Mahal in the works of Indian and British artists in the 1800s helped bolster enthusiasm for the country’s rich culture, architecture and society. One such painting, “The Taj Mahal by moonlight,” stirred a bidding frenzy at a recent auction, and some experts argue that such paintings have helped change perceptions of India in the West.