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The Arabian Art of Henna
When I was a child, it seemed nobody had a tattoo except Popeye the sailor, and possibly real sailors too. Strange as it would have seemed to my younger self, tattoos and body art have been part of society since Neolithic times. Today, approximately 40% of the world’s population have tattoos or some other form of body art.
Eighth Edition of The Saudi Film Festival Celebrates Gulf Filmmakers at Ithra
Some of the biggest names in Gulf cinema are heading to the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra) from June 2-9, in Dhahran, for the eighth edition of the Saudi Film Festival. This year’s theme, “Poetic Cinema,” honors Khalil Al-Rawaf, the first Arab Hollywood star, and director Khalid Al-Siddiq, a pioneer of Kuwaiti cinema.
Aramco Wins Two Gold Green World Awards
Aramco’s South Ghawar Producing Department (SGPD) recently won the gold award in two categories at the Green World Awards ceremony, with a first place in “Industry/Energy Management” for SGPD’s Energy Management Program (EnMP), and for “Carbon Reduction” for the zero flaring invention to boost production from low-pressure oil wells and revival of dead wells.
Saudi Aramco Reinforces its Leading Role in Global Energy Supply: 2017 Annual Review
Saudi Aramco, the world's leading integrated energy and chemicals company, released today its 2017 Annual Review highlighting strategic achievements that reinforce the company’s role as the number one producer of crude oil and condensate, adding value by integrating refining and chemicals production, and expanding cleaner natural gas supply to meet domestic demand.
Advancing Aramco’s Talented Knowledge Seekers
Delivering top-class academic opportunities for employees is a part of Aramco’s DNA. Young Saudi talents continue to find themselves inspired, studying for masters or doctorate degrees at the world’s top-ranked universities, thanks to Aramco’s Advanced Degree Program (ADP), which is one of the development programs offered by the company to upskill its employees and advance their knowledge.
Aramco and TotalEnergies Award Contracts for $11 Billion Amiral Project
Aramco and TotalEnergies on Saturday (June 24) awarded Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contracts for the $11 billion "Amiral" complex, a future world-scale petrochemicals facility expansion at the SATORP refinery in Saudi Arabia. A signing ceremony took place in Dhahran attended by Amin Nasser, Aramco president and CEO, and Patrick Pouyanné, TotalEnergies chairman and CEO.
Aramco and Stellantis Collaboration Indicates eFuel Compatibility with European Engine Families
Stellantis has concluded that 24 engine families in European vehicles sold since 2014, representing 28 million vehicles on the road, are ready to use advanced drop-in eFuel without any powertrain modification, following months of testing at its technical centers across Europe. The tests were conducted using surrogate eFuels provided by Aramco, one of the world’s leading integrated energy and chemicals companies.
OTC: Meeting Offshore Challenges with Innovation and Collaboration
Even as Aramco expands further downstream in refining and chemicals, the company’s commitment to its core upstream oil and gas program remains strong. For attendees at the annual Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), the world’s largest oil and gas industry event, this comes at a time when continued long-term investment is needed to meet growing global energy demand.
Jeff Johnston
Jeffrey Ian Johnston, 51, passed away on September 15, 2009 after a long illness. Jeff had a fun and adventurous childhood traveling the world with his family. Together with his parents and brothers he lived in San Diego, New Orleans, Arizona and Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. It was in Dhahran that Jeff made the friends he would have throughout his life.
Eugene J. Oncale, Jr.
Eugene J. Oncale, Jr, 76, a native of Napoleonville, Louisiana and resident of Sylvester, Georgia lost his battle with cancer on June 10, 2021. Gene, as he was called by his friends, was raised and grew up in Napoleonville, Louisiana, served in the United States Navy where he was stationed at Pearl Harbor and traveled the world extensively as an employee of Saudi Aramco.
EXPEC's New Advanced Image Processing System to Assist Geophysicists in the Search for Oil - 1983
From the Sept. 14, 1983 edition of The Arabian Sun. "The easy oil has already been found." This rather negative truism applies to the oil-producing nations of the world including Saudi Arabia. To locate hard-to-find oil and gas, Aramco is not only utilizing the most advanced technology available, it is also blazing new trails in the application of sophisticated scientific devices.
First Aramco Entity to be ISO Certified for Environmental Protection Management
First entity in Saudi Aramco to be certified for its environmental protection system internationally. After achieving ISO 50001, the international certification in Energy Management, Aramco's Safaniyah Onshore Producing Department (SONPD) embarked on an ambitious plan to certify the biggest gas-oil separation plant (GOSP) in the world and its associated facilities with the International Standard ISO 14001:2015 — the Environmental Management System (EMS).
Sixty-Six Years Ago…
Harry Truman was U.S. president and Dwight Eisenhower a retired Army general when Vernon Cornell joined Saudi Aramco in 1951. Vernon was about to complete his master's degree in chemistry from the University of Southern California when a recruiting team convinced him to take on the challenge of moving half way around the world to live and work in Saudi Arabia.
Aramco and NextDecade Announce Heads of Agreement for Offtake of LNG from Rio Grande LNG Facility
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.
March 4 Marks the Anniversary of Production at Dammam Well-7
On March 4, 1938, “Lucky 7” started producing and Saudi Arabia was launched on its journey to become the world’s largest oil producing nation. Or so runs the widely accepted version of history. But the two years after Lucky 7 were incredibly difficult. The author reveals three major events the early employees had to overcome in those critical years.
Roaming to Riyadh
Being an expat in this part of the world gives me the privilege to travel to places I previously could only have dreamed of or read about in travel guidebooks. I have been living in the Eastern Province for more than two years now, and I knew very little about Riyadh, so I recently decided to travel to the Kingdom’s capital and see it for myself over a weekend.
In Memoriam: Peter Gubser
It is with great sadness that I write to say that Dr. Peter Gubser has lost his battle with cancer. Peter was not just a fellow laborer in the vineyard of trying to place the relationship between the United States and the Arab world on the firmest footing possible. He was not only a great teacher, scholar, and lucid writer as well as author of several very good books on Lebanon, Jordan, and Saladin.
Remembering Keith Carter
Keith Allen Carter was born on October 8th, 1932, on a farm in Northeast Sac County to Clifford Amer Carter and Ora Whitesitt Carter. He passed away on February 6, 2011 at Trinity Regional Hospital, Ft. Dodge, Iowa at the age of 78. In 1962, looking for adventure and fulfilling a dream to see the world, Keith took a job in Tripoli, Libya, teaching for the Oil Companies School. He later taught 6th grade in Ras Tanura for Saudi Aramco.
R.I.P. to a Great American Hero
Aramcons the world over were greatly saddened this past week by the news of the passing of the 41st President of the United States, George H. W. Bush, at the age of 94. Those of us who were living and working in Saudi Arabia at the time remember with deep appreciation the dramatic and decisive steps President Bush took in 1990–91 during the First Gulf War as leader of the coalition that drove the forces of Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait and ended a dire existential threat to the Kingdom itself.
William Rogers III
William Rogers III was born on November 21, 1931 to Doris and Dr. William Rogers II, in Fox Chase, PA, then outside of Philadelphia, the second child after a sister, Doris. A child of the Second World War, Bill grew up hosting scientists helped to escape Eastern Europe by his father, a Chemist who taught at Temple University.