Saudi Aramco Executives visits Research&Development Center

DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia, December 25, SPA -- President and CEO
Abdallah S. Jum‘ah and his successor, Khalid A. Al-Falih, accompanied
by Salim S. Al-Aydh, senior vice president of Engineering and Project
Management, has visited Saudi Aramco’s Research and Development
Center (R&DC) to see firsthand the center’s many developments and to
share their opinions about its importance and its progress.


“This visit showed just how committed our Corporate Management is to
support research and development and its mission,” said R&DC manager
Omar S. Abdulhamid. “Their support is especially important now as we
move ahead with our key programs, such as desulfurization, new fuel
formulations being tested in our combustion lab and carbon
management.”


The executives’ tour included the computational center, the pilot
plants and the combustion lab. They heard progress reports on carbon
management and the production of hydrogen from oil.


At the end of the visit, Jum‘ah spoke to the assembled R&DC
employees. He recalled a visit to an overseas research facility,
where he was inspired to have similar, if not better, capabilities at
Saudi Aramco.


He said he was pleased to be able to say that in the three years
since that visit, the situation is reversed.


Now during his travels, he is proud to describe Saudi Aramco’s R&D
work and that people everywhere are “flabbergasted” to hear about the
advanced work the company is doing.

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