Which city is the headquarters of Saudi Aramco?

Saudi Aramco is headquartered in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

Dhahran lies in Saudi Arabia’s oil-rich Eastern Province, near Dammam and Al Khobar. The city developed around the discovery and production of petroleum, and it became the administrative center for the company now known as Saudi Aramco. Its headquarters campus includes the distinctive Aramco Tower and extensive research, engineering and management facilities.

Saudi Aramco traces its origins to a 1933 concession granted to Standard Oil of California. The company was later renamed Arabian American Oil Company, or Aramco, before Saudi Arabia progressively acquired ownership. The Saudi government completed the takeover in the 1980s, and the company was renamed Saudi Aramco.

The answer is sometimes confused with Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s political capital, or Dammam, the larger nearby metropolitan center. Riyadh hosts major government and business institutions, but Saudi Aramco’s corporate headquarters remain in Dhahran, close to the historic center of the kingdom’s petroleum industry.