Saudi Aramco is headquartered in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. The company’s main corporate center and a major part of its professional and technical operations are located in the Eastern Province.
Dhahran grew in importance after oil was discovered in the region during the 1930s. The site became closely associated with the Saudi oil industry and with the company that developed from the former Arabian American Oil Company.
Riyadh is Saudi Arabia’s national capital, and Jeddah is a major city on the Red Sea, but neither is Saudi Aramco’s headquarters city. Dammam is also nearby in the Eastern Province, which can make the locations easy to confuse.
Saudi Aramco is one of the world’s largest integrated energy companies. Its activities include exploration, crude-oil production, refining, chemicals, marketing, and shipping, so its valuation is linked to a broad energy network rather than a single oil field.