Two years ago Saudi Aramco celebrated 75 years of oil exploration in Saudi Arabia. It was only 6 years after King Abdul Aziz announced the creation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. That was in 1932, so in 1938 oil was discovered in oil well No. 7.
To a lot of analysts, the date of oil discovery in Saudi Arabia is when the map of strategic influence changed.
The celebration in Dhahran, to mark Aramco’s 75 years, was attended by King Abdullah. Hundreds of Saudi royal family members and thousands of Saudi dignitaries too attended the event. In addition, to hundreds of Americans, including some of the older generation of Americans who first came over during the 1940s to Saudi Arabia, there was a possibility at the time that President Barack Obama was going to attend.
I have enjoyed the article. The writter is right when it comes to the history of people who should have been remembered
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