Our first day was tour of Saudi Aramco, the biggest oil company you've never heard of. They used to be American owned, but in the last couple of decades it became a Saudi outfit. They still employ lots of foreign workers.
Their history museum was actually quite good. You could learn a lot even if you didn't read all of the little signs on the exhibits. Not that I would...
They then took us to their Exploration and Petroleum Center for a look at their methods of oil extraction. Pretty advanced stuff. They can now drill at angles and even horizontally to get all of the oil from underground from one well. Sensors on the drill bit allow them to monitor progress from the Center by computer. It's a techie dreamworld.
After an epic lunch, we visited the home of a retired Aramco employee named Saud, as in Saudi Arabia. The wall hanging was part of one of the great cloths that covers the Kaaba in Mecca.
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