Map of Ras Tanura Region

Ras Tanura (more accurately Ra's Tannūrah, Arabic: رأس تنورة meaning "top/head of the barbeque spit") is a city in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia located on a peninsula extending into the Persian Gulf. The name Ras Tanura applies both to a gated Saudi Aramco employee compound (also referred to as "Najmah") and to an industrial area further out on the peninsula that serves as a major oil port and oil operations center for Saudi Aramco, the largest oil company in the world, and at one time was the largest oil refinery in the world. Before the rise of the oil industry in Saudi Arabia in the 1930s, there was no town there. Today, the compound has about 3,200 residents, including about 1,700 North Americans. Image File history File links Saudi_dhahran_rt_abqaiq_jubail. ... Image File history File links Saudi_dhahran_rt_abqaiq_jubail. ... The East Province (French Province de lEst) occupies the southeastern portion of the Republic of Cameroon. ... It has been suggested that Persian Gulf States be merged into this article or section. ... Pumpjack pumping an oil well near Sarnia, Ontario Ignacy Łukasiewicz - inventor of the refining of kerosene from crude oil. ... Saudi Aramco, the national oil company of Saudi Arabia (formerly just Aramco, standing for the Arabian American Oil Company), is the largest oil corporation in the world and the worlds largest in terms of proven crude oil reserves and production. ... View of Shell Oil Refinery in Martinez, California. ...

Geograpically, the Ras Tanura complex is located a distance south of the modern industrial port city of Jubail (formerly a sleepy fishing village) and north across Tarut Bay from the old port city of (Al-)Dammam. Although Ras Tanura's port area is located on a small peninsula, due to modern oil tankers' need for deeper water, Saudi Aramco has built numerous artificial islands for easier docking. In addition, offshore oil rigs and production facilities have been constructed in the waters nearby, mostly by Saudi Aramco, Schlumberger, and Halliburton. ghdsfgdafgasdfsdfsa asthis is a copyr9ight page. ... Dammam Corniche Dammam (Also Damman or Ad Dammām) is the capital of the Ash Sharqiyah province in Saudi Arabia. ... Peninsula A peninsula (from Latin paene insula, almost island) is a geographical formation consisting of an extension of land from a larger body, surrounded by water on three sides. ... Saudi Aramco, the national oil company of Saudi Arabia (formerly just Aramco, standing for the Arabian American Oil Company), is the largest oil corporation in the world and the worlds largest in terms of proven crude oil reserves and production. ... Before Mexico City, Tenochtitlan was an artificial island of 250,000 (Dr Atl) Dejima, not allowed direct contact with nearby Nagasaki Formoza (Gdynia) The World in Dubai An artificial island is an island that has been formed by human, rather than natural means. ... An oil platform is a large structure used to house workers and machinery needed to drill and then produce oil and natural gas in the ocean. ... Saudi Aramco, the national oil company of Saudi Arabia (formerly just Aramco, standing for the Arabian American Oil Company), is the largest oil corporation in the world and the worlds largest in terms of proven crude oil reserves and production. ... Schlumberger Limited is the worlds largest oilfield services corporation operating in over 100 countries, with about 64,000 people of 140 nationalities. ... This article needs to be updated. ...

Ras Tanura/Najmah compound (Aramco code: RT) is one of four mainly expatriate residential compounds built by Saudi Aramco in the 1940s, including Dhahran (the main administrative center), Abqaiq, and Udhailiyah. Ras Tanura is the northernmost of the four and the only one located on the Gulf itself. Similar to the others, Ras Tanura compound is surrounded by a heavily guarded security fence, and only upper-level Saudi Aramco employees and their dependants may live inside. Built originally to allow expatriate oil company employees (mainly Americans) a degree of Western comfort and separation from the restrictions of Saudi and Islamic laws, the community today is a multi-ethnic mosaic of Americans, Saudis, other Arab nationalities (e.g. Egyptian and Jordanian), Indians, Pakistanis, etc. - all of whom continue to live in a predominantly American cultural bubble with English as the common language. Saudi Aramco, the national oil company of Saudi Arabia (formerly just Aramco, standing for the Arabian American Oil Company), is the largest oil corporation in the world and the worlds largest in terms of proven crude oil reserves and production. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Map of Abqaiq Region Abqaiq (also Buqayq, Arabic: بقيق buqayq, meaning father of the sand flies) is a small city in the interior of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia located in the desert southwest of the Dhahran-Dammam-Khobar metropolitan area. ... Udhailiyah (Arabic: العضيلية ?u ayliyyah) is a small oil company compound in the interior of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia located in the desert southwest of the Dhahran-Dammam-Khobar metropolitan area. ... Saudi Aramco, the national oil company of Saudi Arabia (formerly just Aramco, standing for the Arabian American Oil Company), is the largest oil corporation in the world and the worlds largest in terms of proven crude oil reserves and production. ...

Ras Tanura in fiction

• In the BBC docudrama, The Man Who Broke Britain, the price of oil increases dramatically after a terrorist attack against the oil refinery in Ras Tanura.

• In the FX movie Oil Storm, the already damaged oil industry in the United States is further crippled by a terrorist attack at the same refining facility.

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See also

• Aramco expats - Saudi Aramco expatriate life inside and outside the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
• SAR201: currently situated near Ras Tanura.
• Ras Tanura Middle School
• Dhahran
• Abqaiq
• Udhailiyah

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External links

• [1] Satellite image showing most parts of Ras Tanura: Aramco residential area, common city, and the huge oilfarms and oil seaport.
• City-specific images and documents from the Aramco-Brats.com website
• Aramco Services Company site: By clicking the "communities" link, information and photo tour can be found about Ras Tanura as well as other Aramco communities.
• A billion barrels ago..., stories in the Ras Tanura refinery
• Ports of Ras Tanura

Saudi Arabian Cities

List of main Saudi Arabian cities

|`Afif | `Ar`ar | Abha | Abqaiq | Al Bahah | Buraidah | Ad Dammam | Dhahran | Ad Dir`iyah | Duba | Ha'il | Al Hufuf | Al Jawf | Jeddah | Jizan | Al Jubayl | King Abdullah Economic City | Khamis Mushayt | Al Kharj | Khobar | Layla | Al Majma'ah | Mecca (Makkah) | Medina | Najran | Qal'at Bishah | Al Qatif | Ras Tanura | Ra's al Khafji | Riyadh (National Capital) | Sudair | As Sulayyil | At Ta'if | Tabuk | Udaliyah | `Unayzah | Yanbu' al Bahr |

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