The arabian american oil company and creative mapping in postwar saudi arabia

The Arabian Peninsula is a daunting prospect for a mapmaker. Covering more than 2.6 million square kilometers (1 million sq mi) and including today's Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen, the Peninsula offers some of the world's most inhospitable terrain. Symbolically, the final confirmation of the company's new identity came on January 31, 1944, when Casoc was renamed the Arabian American Oil Company. The postwar years of the late 1940s witnessed the scramble to expand production from the Aramco concession and to establish a market for it. The Saudi Arabia oil reserve's first commercial oil well was initiated on March 3, 1938. This well was discovered by CALTEX, two companies that combined forces to drill oil in Saudi Arabia. The two companies that made up CALTEX was CASOC (California Arabian Standard Oil Company) and a Texas Oil Company.

The Saudi Arabia oil reserve's first commercial oil well was initiated on March 3, 1938. This well was discovered by CALTEX, two companies that combined forces to drill oil in Saudi Arabia. The two companies that made up CALTEX was CASOC (California Arabian Standard Oil Company) and a Texas Oil Company. Kuwait Oil Company: The joint venture of Gulf Oil and Anglo-Persian. Kuwait was a small state trying to assure its independence and freedom of action among larger powers as Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. Britain assumed responsibilities for Kuwait’s foreign affairs after the war and later established a protectorate over the empire. The Aramco name would first come into being in 1944, when Casoc was renamed to become the Arabian American Oil Company, or Aramco for short. Saudi Aramco's headquarters in Dhahran in the 1950s. In 1943, the name of the company in control in Saudi Arabia was changed to Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO). In addition, numerous changes were made to the original concession after the striking of oil. Saudi Aramco (Arabic: أرامكو السعودية ‎ ʾArāmkō al-Saʿūdiyyah), officially the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (formerly Arabian-American Oil Company), is a Saudi Arabian national petroleum and natural gas company based in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.. It is one of the largest companies in the world by revenue, and according to accounts seen by Bloomberg News, the most profitable

Aramco's Frontier Story: The Arabian American Oil Company and Creative Mapping in Postwar Saudi Arabia Chad H. Parker 10. Oil Frontiers: The Niger Delta 

Aramco's role in the border dispute between Saudi Arabia and Great Britain, The Arabian American Oil Company and Creative Mapping in Postwar Saudi  31 Jan 2015 Aramco's Frontier Story: The Arabian American Oil Company and Creative Mapping in Postwar Saudi Arabia; Chad H. Parker; pp. 171-188. Making the Desert Modern: Americans, Arabs, and Oil on the Saudi Arabian The Arabian American Oil Company and Creative Mapping in Postwar Arabia,” in   In the years following World War II, as Aramco expanded its role in Saudi Arabia, the idea of “modernization” emerged as a central component of American  Creative Mapping in Postwar Saudi Arabia. 9 Aramco's Frontier Story: The Arabian American Oil Company and Creative Mapping in Postwar Saudi Arabia. Aramco's Frontier Story: The Arabian American Oil Company and Creative Mapping in Postwar Saudi Arabia Chad H. Parker 10. Oil Frontiers: The Niger Delta 

Aramco's Frontier Story: The Arabian American Oil Company and Creative Mapping in Postwar Saudi Arabia Chad H. Parker 10. Oil Frontiers: The Niger Delta 

Aramco's frontier story: The arabian american oil company and creative mapping in postwar saudi arabia. Chapter · January 2014 with 1,049 Reads. How we 

Saudi Aramco officially the Saudi Arabian Oil Company is a Saudi Arabian national petroleum and natural gas company based in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Aramco officially the Saudi Arabian Oil Company is a Saudi Arabian national petroleum and natural gas company based in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Dammam (Arabic: ٱلدَّمَّام‎ ad-Dammām) is the capital of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. Before long, Dhahran, the corporate headquarters of Saudi Aramco, the largest oil company in With the construction of a pipeline to Bahrain and the subsequent expansion of the oil industry in the post-war years, the focus of the  Aramco's frontier story: The arabian american oil company and creative mapping in postwar saudi arabia. Chapter · January 2014 with 1,049 Reads. How we  Aramco's role in the border dispute between Saudi Arabia and Great Britain, The Arabian American Oil Company and Creative Mapping in Postwar Saudi  31 Jan 2015 Aramco's Frontier Story: The Arabian American Oil Company and Creative Mapping in Postwar Saudi Arabia; Chad H. Parker; pp. 171-188. Making the Desert Modern: Americans, Arabs, and Oil on the Saudi Arabian The Arabian American Oil Company and Creative Mapping in Postwar Arabia,” in   In the years following World War II, as Aramco expanded its role in Saudi Arabia, the idea of “modernization” emerged as a central component of American 

9. Aramco’s Frontier Story: The Arabian American Oil Company and Creative Mapping in Postwar Saudi Arabia Chad H. Parker 10. Oil Frontiers: The Niger Delta and the Gulf of Mexico Michael Watts 11. Petro-magic-realism Revisited: Unimagining and Reimagining the Niger Delta Jennifer Wenzel 12.

Kuwait Oil Company: The joint venture of Gulf Oil and Anglo-Persian. Kuwait was a small state trying to assure its independence and freedom of action among larger powers as Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. Britain assumed responsibilities for Kuwait’s foreign affairs after the war and later established a protectorate over the empire. The Aramco name would first come into being in 1944, when Casoc was renamed to become the Arabian American Oil Company, or Aramco for short. Saudi Aramco's headquarters in Dhahran in the 1950s. In 1943, the name of the company in control in Saudi Arabia was changed to Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO). In addition, numerous changes were made to the original concession after the striking of oil.

The Arabian American Oil Company and Creative Mapping in Postwar Saudi Arabia Chad H. Parker In the late 1940s and 1950s, the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco) became intricately involved in Saudi Arabian territorial disputes. The story of Aramco and the Buraymi Oasis, located on the eastern borders of Saudi Arabia, was one manifest This chapter examines the cultural practices that propelled the expansion of corporate oil production in the Middle East by using a particular instance of creative remapping—a campaign undertaken by the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco) in the 1940s and 1950s to redefine the potentially oil-rich Buraimi Oasis (in present-day Oman) as a historical territory of Saudi Arabia. ARABIAN AMERICAN OIL COMPANY (ARAMCO) Petroleum partnership between U.S. firms and Saudi Arabia, 1933 – 1990.. The origins of the Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO) go back to the May 1933 signing of an oil concession agreement between Saudi Arabia's finance minister, Shaykh Abdullah Sulayman, and Lloyd N. Hamilton, an attorney representing Standard Oil of California (SOCAL, now Chevron). 9. Aramco’s Frontier Story: The Arabian American Oil Company and Creative Mapping in Postwar Saudi Arabia Chad H. Parker 10. Oil Frontiers: The Niger Delta and the Gulf of Mexico Michael Watts 11. Petro-magic-realism Revisited: Unimagining and Reimagining the Niger Delta Jennifer Wenzel 12. In the late 1940s and 1950s, the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco) became intricately involved in Saudi Arabian territorial disputes. The story of Aramco and the Buraymi Oasis, located on the eastern borders of Saudi Arabia, was one manifest in everything from border skirmishes to high diplomacy, but also one that included creative • Making the Desert Modern: Americans, Arabs, and Oil on the Saudi Arabian Frontier, 1946-1973 (University of Massachusetts Press, 2015). • “Aramco’s Frontier Story: The Arabian American Oil Company and Creative Mapping in Postwar Arabia,” in Oil Culture, Ross Barrett and Daniel Worden, ed. (University of Minnesota Press, 2014). Works of science, art and occasionally imagination, European maps of the Arabian Peninsula from the 15th to the 20th centuries underpinned commerce, politics, knowledge and exploration. Many were the results of individual fortitude, even courage. The Bukhari Collection of Antique Maps of Arabia, exhibited at London’s Brunei Gallery last spring, illuminates anew the Arabian Peninsula’s