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PIPELINE

Vol. 9 o. 11 TRA S-ARABIAN PIPE LI E COMPANY, BEIRUT, LEB NO December 1961

Seven Taplinus are among this grotJp of Lebanese senior StJpervisors taking the first of a series of fOllr tiul"e­week training programs at the Beirut IUanagement College. Junen above listening to Dr. William r'ores in alecttJre on General I1-fanagement are second rofU, from left, K. . Saliba, R. S. alibi, J. E. Saba and R. G.Badran, and back rOt~, A. Y. Noujaim, C. G. Bad,an and G. At. Hajjar. (Photo by asr).

• even Tapliners are takingthe first of a series of fourtweh'e-week training pro­grams at the Beirut :\Iana­gement College, a two-yeareducational in titution forintermediate and advancedmanagement, which wasopened October 30 at theRiviera Hotel. They are:Raymond G. Badra~, Ka­lim ~. aliba, Raja alibiand Adel Y, 1 Toujaim, ofAccounting; Charles G. Ba­dran and George ;\1. Hajjar,of Purchase and Traffic; andJoseph E. Saba, of Policiesand Benefits.

The Beirut l\IanagementCollege is spon ored by theLebanese l\Ianagement As­sociation together with theChamber of Commerce andIndustry, the Association ofLebanese Industrialists andthe Busines dministrationDepartment of A. .B. Thepresent program consist oftwo-hour lectures and dis­cussion groups held threenights weekly.

7 TAPLINERS ATTEND

MANAGEMENT COURSE

Produced for Aramco byMediterranean East, Incor­porated, and directed byRichard Lyford, "Science ofOil" is the first of a series offour documentary-type filmsthat will cover all aspects ofoil operations from explora­tion to marketing. The sec­ond film in this new series is"The Explorers," which willbe relea ed in the near fu­ture.

this winter.During Q\'ember, the

motion picture wa shown toabout 1,500 teacher andtudent at twelve different

schools in Lebanon underTapline's chool Program,designed to familiarize fac­ulty member and studentswith oil operation. l\lorechool will ee the film over

the coming few weeks inTapline's operating area.

Aramco Film II Science of Oil II Shown in Mideast

Chemistry stlldents of the Beirut College for Tl'omell see how seismic 't'ork is done in the net~ Aramco color film,.. dence of Oli." The motion picture !t'as shown at B.C.rr.'s age Hall, November 17, !mder Tapline's SchoolsProgram, "hieh "as started in 1959 ,cith the significant purpose of stimlliating and assisting teachers and studentsto learn more about th company and the oil industry. (Photo by asr).

Along with regular fea­ture movies, the newly-re­lea ed twenty-minute Aram­co color m tion picture," cience of Oil," played tosome 30,000 persons at theHamra and Roxy theaters inBeirut, ovember 6 through

Q\'ember 12. All Beirut­ba ed Tapline employeewere offered free couponto ee the film at the Hamra.

The film, which depictsAramco operations in audiArabia and include Taplinecene ,wa show n to Tap­

line employees at idon on~Q\'ember 2 and will beshown to employees alongthe 'Line between o\'em­ber 27 and December 3.

In recent public theatershowings in Alexandria,

.A.R., the film was seenby 55,000 persons in two­and-a-half weeks. In Cairotheaters, 38,000 saw the filmin two weeks. It is estimatedthat 200,000 spectators willview the film in the publictheaters of the U.A.R. andLebanon and that 3,000,000persons will view it when itappears on U.S. television

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pany for about a year andworked as a welder with alocal contractor. lIe returnedto the company ranks inJanuary, 1958, and has ser­ved as Combination Welderever 1I1ce.

11is training assignment inRas Tanura wa part of thenew company training policyadopted early this year forthe development of nation­als in Saudi Arabia. Underthi policy, a committee,composed of the General,Senior and Station Super­intendents, the DeputyCompany Representati\'ePipe Line .\ rea, and the Co­ordinator of Training, nom­inates approximately ten percent of the Saudi Arah cm­ployees, \\ ho ha\'e demon-trated a high degree of ini­

tiati\'e in their job perform­ance, for accelerated trainingprograms abo\e the 'cope ofthe normal training efforts.

Taplme's Combination Welder ilIlIltammad Salllll rcorl.s all a drarclllgboard assiglllneni 01 Arameo's Indllslrial Trailling ellter III Ras Tanllra.RobeI'I Dorsclt, Assislanl Principal of I. T.C., cheellS Alllltammad'steehniq,u. (Photo by V. K. Anlony).

Combination Welder Mu­hammad ,'alim Qahtani hasju t re umed his duties atTuraif's Central WeldingShop after becoming thefirst Saudi Arab Tapliner tocomplete a special three­month training course atAramco's Industrial Train­ing Shop in Ras Tanura.Muhammad's training a-signment, which startedSeptember 2, includedcourscs in alloy metals weld­ing, common core skills,sketching, blueprint readingand mathcmatic. In thecvenings, luhammad at­tended an clecti\'e Englishcourse at the TndustrialTraining cnter.

:\n acti\'e tudent of Tap­line's De\elopment Schoolin Turaif, :\Iuhammadlearned his first \\clding\\ hile \\orkinR for 1nterna­tional Bechtel, Inc., heforejoining Tapline in 1951. Sixyears later hc left the com-

Turaif Welder Qahtani CompletesAramco Training in Ras Tanura

Wearing Itis Taplille welding Itood, MlIltammad Salim, of TlIrai!'sCenlral Weldillg Sltop, gels a pointer 10 improve Itis weldillg lecltniquefrom Floyd Todd, <t'elding iuslrlletor at Arameo's Ras Tanllra illdllstrialTraining Sltop. (PItOlo by V. K. Anlony).

Twenty-foltr /lospilal employees parlicipated ill a spirited pillg-POllg10llmallleni al IJlldanalt dllrillg Oclober. There tvere eigltl cOlllemlersin lite ladies' grollp alld sixtcell cnlrm/ls ill tlte mell's sillgles, cighl ofwhom lure Salldi Arabs. III tlte final roltnds, plOyI'd ill the presenceof Dr. F. J. ZltllOs/" , Tapline's Medical Dtreclor, Dr. il1arcel Prillcebeal IIanna Faddolll to lake Ihe men's singles; il1iss NlIha Daglter dOlt'nedMiss IIelelle Barbar 10 fl'ill lite ladies' singles; and Dr. Prillce alld AbdallaltFaleh Icamed to whip Dr. EdlllOnd Sefri and Amin S"eidall in Ihe men'sdonbles. An exltibition lIIatch beltveell Itt'O promising nalionals satv tltet'ielory of Abdallalt Faleh anI' il111ltamma,d SlIleiman. F;'I~/isls ShOI~1I

above are, from lefl, Faleh, SlIleima II , NI,ss Barbar, Dr. I rlltce, 1\.11.ssDagher, Dr. Sefri, Sreeidan and Faddolll. (Photo by Dr. F. J. Zukosk,).

A deillge of will III tlte IJadallalt area made litis e tioll of lite roadbellceell lite slalioll am/ lite tOft'1I illlpassable 011 J ol'embe, 13. A compallYpayloada It'll Itsed 10 clear Ihe road olltside lite flatlOlI. /1 Waf sentlaler the slime day 10 Wadi ,·/bll al-QlIr, abolll fifty IlIlomelns easl ofBodo/wit, Irlme more Iltall olle hllndred III/ellS had b/(II strallded dltc10 ItafhOllls ami IIlIrlllg 011 Ihe mrtlll pipeillte H,ad. The payloadII' Imsoperalcd for clNCII COlltIltIlOIt.\ ItOltr 10 open Il:e road for Ihe ImellS,1II0si of Ith".h fl'ere can yll,g frolt prodllCf. (Photo by Rafic Fallolls).

Four Salldi Arab Gou,."menl Relalions employees were recenlly selectedfor one-weel< I/aimng and familiarizalion assiglllllellis at Bemll head­qllarlers and Sidoll Ter minal. Tltcy are Aread Hamad, il1l1hammadSaytr, Saed al-/larbi and Itafi Sa'id. /lamad, wlto is the assislanllocal company represer'talit'e al Tllratf, reas the first among the fOllrto reCl/t'e Ihe special Iratllillg dllrmg tlte lasl week of November. Above,Ite is shorn, in Ihe Trot'el and Air TrallSporl Seelion, ret'iett'ing withDirar Shebaro (Iefl) procedllres to procllre t isas for company persollllel.(Pholo by asr).

Bat/anal!Hassan Ghamdi, of Totor

Tran'portla'atouk llasawi, of Opera­tions and Repairs

Zeid luhammad, of Opcra­tions and Repairs

BeirutAram A. Balian, of Engi­

ncennRElie A. Youakim, of Ac­

countingQaisumah

Saleh el-Dukhi, of DiningRoom

Abdullah Ilamad, of ;\lotorTransport

Iu'ti I1arbi, of Administra­tion and General

:\luhammad :\luhammad, ofAdministration and Gen­eral

lIamood el-:\Iutairi, of Ad­mini tration and Cen'ral

:\Iarzook ,'aleh, of Opera­tion: and Repair~

Ali Shamari, of .\dmini,tra­tion and Gencral

:\luhammad Turaifi, of Op­erations and Repairs

Raj/IllSuleiman al-Bureik, of Op­

erations and Repairs1\lutliq Chamri, of Dining

Ro mSaleh Ghamidi, of Opera­

tions and R 'pairs•'idon

Ali Badredd1l1e, of :\larine:\Iuhammad Farran, of Op­

erations and Repairsl\Iuheiddine Yaman, of .\d-

mini tration and eneral

Turlll!:\bdullah el-:\lutairi, of

Storehou c:>Hamed c1-Rwili, f entral

Welding ShopAli Saicd, of Operations and

Repairs.

IE ·YEAR PINS

BeirutGina, daughtcr of :\Ir. and

:\Irs. Salecm E. ho\\airyGrace, daughter of :\Ir. and

:\Jrs. ,'arkis G. :arkissianKarim and :\larina, respec­

tivcly, son and daughtcrof :\1r. and :\1 rs.• alim A.1 Tajjar

ih'a, daughter of :\lr. andIrs. Zakhya 1. :\Ialhamch

QaryataillFare, on of :\1 r. and I\lrs.

Anis . Ka\\arRaj/w

Abdul-Aziz, son of 1'1r. andl\lr . Sa'ud Abdul-Azizoura, daughtcr of I\Tr. andMr ,a'ad Abbad

idonAli, on of l\1r. and I\lr.

Ibrahim 1\1. FakhourvBas im, on of 1\1r. and ;\Irs.

Ali 11. Ghaddar• Ticolle, daughter of :\1r. and

:\Jrs. Habib Y. KhouryRalph, on of l\1r. and :\lr

Ayoub K. :hamiTuraif

Salameh • alem, on of 1\1r.and Mrs. Salim Salman.

THE CRADLE ROW

Ir. Arnold assumcd thedutics of Operations and:\Iaintcnanee Foreman at Si­don Tcrminal in .O\'cmber,1959. Hc was promoted toStation Superintendent, Ba­danah, on Scpt'mber 1 thisycar.. Born in lississippi andcalling alifornia "homc,"1\ I r. Amold is onc of thcrare cxpert gardncrs alongthe 'Linc haying a real"green thumb." Other in­terests are fishing and golf.

Sinet! the year 834, October 31 has been ulebrated as IIalloween, or Ihe Eve of all Saini' Day. This year, IheHalloween parly organized by Mrs. John II. Arnold for the children at Badanah rcas a hore/ing sllccess.Aside from the clown, pirate and Arabian princess, many characters were porlrayed at the festit'al, includinga Thor mmrle (left). (Photo by O. E. Riller).

tank upplied the water. Thatwas a real challenge, espe­cially during shamaal, butthe \\ ork wa intere ting andthe food wa good."

During hi three-year stintin Ra el-:\Ii ha'ab, l\Ir.Arnold was in charge of alllifting equipment the weld­ing hop and school, as wellas the marine divi i n in­cluding pile driving equip­ment for the pier and chan­nel marker as far out a 2miles.

Ir. Arnold transferredfrom International Bechtel,Inc., to Tapline a Power­house Operator on OctoberI, 1950. 1\10\ ing to Qaisu­mah, he wa made. hiftForeman in .\pril, 1951, andForeman Operations inFebruary, 1952. Tran fer­ring to Turaif a year later,he worked there for fouryears a Foreman Opera­tion and Foreman-Gen­eral en·ice. After pendinganother couple of year inRafha in the same capacity,

M. K. Saab

F. C. Naiia

Vartan BezdikianArtist

R••p, Director:

Editor

Reporters:

Bodanah M. Abdul·Rahman

Beirut Rose Sawdah

Jordan John Franjieh

New York R. M. Weeks

Qaisumoh John Nehme

Rafha S. S. Dabaghl

Sidan Dr. G. M. Stephan

IS. M. SlddiqueTuralf M. Sultan

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Before he fir't came tothe :\Iiddle Ea't in 19+4 tohelp build proce plants forproduction of a\'iation a 0­

line at the Bahrain refin­ery, John H. Arnold hadal~eady pent eight years inthe oil indu try, working onthe construction of refineriesa. a rigger foreman. Theonly tw 0 exceptions occured\\ hen he worked on thecon truction of the KaiserSteel :\1 ill in Fontana, ali­fornia, and of a link beltcom eyor for loading sea\e el \\ ith pho phate in thePalau I land .

:\Ir. Arnold returned tothe area in Augu t, 1947,\\ hen he landed in Ra e1­:\Ii-ha'ab to work on thecon truction of Tapline. Thatwa' a time, ay :\Ir. Arnold,"when \\ e li\ed in tent andtook outdoor howers, as apipe from a mall elevated

Badallah ,'101/011 'upenlllellde1ll Johll H. ArrlOld mel h/ mfe, Ihefo",,,r JliSs Ft'a Krall, ill 194' al Ihe Ras el-JlIsha'ab Hospilal, «'herehe t..as "n'/1I1l as slatJ lIurse. The couple tcere marrted III Bahralll a year

lalcr. TI,,/r four elIIMr,,", RIchard (lefl) , 12, Kelly GI,d Terry, ,alldPalricia 1." (t,ho rms III Beirul all denial lrealmelll "hclI Ihe plClurer,as laktlt) , ilke 10 call aud, .-lrabia Iheir home. (Pholo by Nasr).

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NEWS111 1960 and 1 ',93 for firstnine months thl' year.

Tanker D lopm nt :Oil tankers under construc­tion in the \\ orld at t:nd­September amounted to 2+9:hip: of 3,6+,"760 grosstons +7,600 lOns more thanthree months earlier, and re­presenting +1.5 p'r cent ofthe total shippll1g tonnageunder construction in the\\orld, \ re 'ent stud\' of the\\ orld-\\ Ide t.lI1ker situationa of mid-1961 re\ eal' that:the \\ orld tonnage lOtal con­tinues to climb, hut at grad­u.llh d\\ ind1ing grim thr.lte~; largt: t hare of nt:\\con. truction i. taking placeIII Cre.1t Britain, .Ind thateountn i .11. 0 t.lking themajor - hare of ne\\ \ e,. eL :higgLr t.lI1ker Lontinu to

domi n.lle ne\\ 11\lIld IIIg sineeship of +O,llllll 1)\\"1 ormore rcpr' 'nt two-third.of the \ e. cI,., pr'''' 'ntl: onorder; outlook is for a 22.2per cent n'e in the \\orldtoul commL'rL ial fleet h\ theend of I ')()5 a \'earlYgnl\\ th fate .1\ eragin~ +.'1per cent, ,.,ignilicanth lessthan the I 1.5 per e 'nt an­nual r.lIe from II)S(I-I')611,

• RU,'SI.1I1 oil \:\ ports tothe fr e \\ orld, \\ hich almo ttrebkd III t hre \ .1 r,., , toabout 211 million' ton,., in1960, ha\ e hith ·rto h 'encarried largeh 111 foreignflag \l: I Rec ·nth, ho\\­e\ er, the Ru. Ian ha\ e de­CIded that the\ urgently ne dmore carr: Illg c.lpacity oftheir 0\\ n 'lanker tonnageunder the Ru, ian flag re­cordnl a gr.ldual IllCrLa efrom about ISII,1I1111 D\\'T(21 ships) III 1951 to1,27, ,Ollll D\\ T (116 hlp:)in mid-I96I, The RUSSIanare no\\ going ahead \\ iththe con truction of a num­ber of large tankers, both athome and ahroad, \ltoge­ther, the tonnage on orderand due for dcli\er\ \\ithinthe next two years i cer­tainly in exec' of '00,000D\\,;r. .\ Ru'sian tankerfleet of 0\ er 2 million D\\'Tin 1963 \\ ould bring it toapproximately the arne levelas tho e of the ••etherland

\\eden and reece,

THE

311,+31

}'ear 196131+,3.'7

+229, .+09216,7+1

I

REPORT

219,+26

Oclob /230,005

3I206,216206,216

need' b\ 1970. 110\\\'\ a,ha e \Ianhattan _tud\

finds cause for oncern intrend to\\ ud more gO\ ern­mental intenentlOn. Thiscou r 'e i' \ le\\ ed as higge:tdanger to oil's ahilit\ togro\\ .

Oil Import: \\'e't Ger­many' crude imports torfir t nine months of 1961climbed nearly 50 per cento\er comparable 1960 pe­riod. Iran's share. about 31per ent of total, gained 120per cent, fr m third to fir:tplace, di 'placing Saudi .\ra­bia. Sahara supplies 111­

crea'ed almo't sl:I.-fold. Im­port' from :0\ let l-niondoubled, to 1,267,91 . metricton . Border price: of Ru,­sian oil (13.39 a ton la't\ear and 12.73 thiS \earthrough :eptember) \~ er'far belo\\ a\ erage pn 'e forall crude' imported '2072

DUSTRY

OPERATIONS

lhcrage BPD recei\'ed at :idonhips loaded

Average BPD loaded on 'hipA\'crage bbls per shipAverage BPD deli\ ered to hips

and J\Iedreco

Jl'inta tlOS broll~ht Itea,y ralllS to "idely separated parts of, '<1/ltlt l",blO.III ·Ar·ar. ,dllclt b,.re tlu brunt of tlte rut eo on. tlte jlood, Itelp,d jillliP the mahfur, or pIt, located to the SOlltlt-ca't of lJadanah pllmp ta­tlO" . .-1 Taplllle payloadcr IS lto,O! abott clea"lIlg liP tlte m.lhfur pllbefore tlte early XOfemb" raIns dl rllpted a campa".1 pia" to comtrllcta" Of'erf/o" to tlte pll tlti year. Jl'IIIt a capon/I' of about t co mllluJIlgallons and a deptlt ,an''''E! from fNc IIlche to about tIll lit) f"t, tit,pit retatll "i"ter rallls to SUPP!.I drlllkinE! ,wter for trot d" , tlll"s­men alld Itt'e tack. (Photo by O. E, RIIUr).

Pipeline throughput took a big dip in 0 tober totand at more than 93,000 barrel a day belo\\ the September

figure, or half thc all-time company high of +61, 7 BPDachicved in :\Iarch, 1959. October deli\'cne from . idona\'eraged 219,+26 BPD, compared \\ith the record +54,62­BPD, et in February thi year.

Probable a\'era e deli\'erie from, idon for ••Q\'emberare 259,000 BPD,

oil product and 00,000tons of coal. Dcli\'crie willprovide an e timated 10 percent of Britain' total gasupplies.

Petroleum Demand:Texaco Chairman .\,Long belie\es worldwidepetroleum demand \\ ill in­crease from 1 .9 million BPDin 1961 to more than 2+million BPD in 1965, at rateof about - per cent peryear. lIe expect ,oviet oilexports to reach 7,5 per centof world mark t lw 1965,or one million bar;el perday, "large enough to cau edislocation in the \\ e't."

• Optimi m hine throughCha e :\Ianhattan Bank'snew 10-vear forecast on theoil indu' try. But there I anote of caution. ,'haring upthe optimi'm, bank 'ay oiland gas will supply 73 percent of free world' energy

OILMiddle East Develop­

ments: :\Iiddle Ea t oil pro­duction in the first ninemonths of thi \'ear ro e by

.6 per cent o;'er the sameperiod of 1960. Oil producedamounted to 210,347,000metric tons compared with193,705,000 metric ton inthe nine month last year.All leading countries achie­ved higher output. Kuwaityielded 61,687,000 tons,Saudi Arabia 50,914,000tons, Iran 43,6 6,000 tonand Iraq 36,260,000 tons,

• Kuwait government iplanning a large indu triali­zation program ba ed on useof natural gas from KuwaitOil's oilfield , Con tructionstarted in October on thefirst plant in the program,for the new Kuwait Petro­chemical Co., owned 40 percent by Oronzi di Kara, ofMilan. Government willshare in profits from naturalgas sales on arne 50-50basis as for crude.

• ational Iranian Oil igiving priority to utilizationof natural gas from its Sara­jeh distillate field, ratherthan to production of crudeat Alborz, both in Qumarcaof i'Jorth Iran. Immediateplans are to pipe gas from

arajeh to indu trial areaseast and west of Teheran.Project will co t 25 millionand will be completed intwo years. During fir t yearof operation, arajeh gaswill replace 37 per cent ofannual fuel oil requirementin Teheran area,

North Mrica: For thefirst time in the pani h. ahara, very slight traces ofoil ha\'e been encounteredin a test well in Block 47,held jointly by Gulf andCEPSA.

• Oil ha been found atabout 1,700 meters in :\10­rocco by ociete Cherifiennede Petrole about 60 kms.south-east of Essaouira inregion where it ha alreadyfound two gas field .

• Britain ha formallyopened it door to importof ahara ga , Briti h GaCouncil Chairman aid theimport will replace morethan 400,000 tons a year of

THE

J, A, Abbolld

gent plans as the new Mayorof Kartaba are to constructa twelve-bed hospital for themountain village and im­prove its irrigation anddrinking water installations.

With Tapline since June,1949, Mr. Abboud is a 1935Brief Business Course grad­uate of the American Uni­versity of Bciru t.

6,000 inhabitants ha alwaysdeeply interested him. Hehas sened three two-yearterms in fact as Preside~t ofthe Philanthropic A socia­tion of Kartaba in Beirut.\\'ith a membership of over400, the A sociation wafounded in 1927 to help theneedy of Kartaba and assistits younger generation incovering school tuition fees,

Mr. Abboud's most ur-

Three YOIlT/Kster are a.l/ending Senior Staff chool classes at RafhatIllS year, ,uth .lIrs. RIchard Ragsdale as their schoolmarm. They are.from left, .\lIrion Robertson, grade 4, Debra Olsen, grade 1, and StanleyTrae~', grath 3. (Photo by Nasr).

Tapline employee JosephA. Abboud, who was re­cently appointed :\Iayor ofKartaba by decree of theLebane e Government, as­sumed hi new duties andrespon ibilities on Kovem­ber I.

;\ Stock Control Clerk inthe Purcha e and Trafficdivision, who, for some sixdays a week, keeps theStandard Stock Catalogueup-to-date \\ ith addition,deletions and re\·isions ap­pro\'ed by the Tap lin e

tandardization Committee,:\Ir. Abboud i now devotinghi \\eeklv day-off to decideon road, 'imp;o\e health andsanitary conditions, under­take the guardian hip of pro­perty, a ist the governmentin maintaining peace andorder, and note mo\'ements oftudents, finances and the

counties other details im'ol­ved in running two moun­tain \'illage schools for 300pupilS.

For all these extra efforts,which include frequentdri\'es from his Beirut hometo Kartaba, 60 kilometersnortheast of Tapline's Beirutoffices, 1\1r. Abboud is re­ceiving no pay and expectsnone. Although he spentmost of hi boyhood in Bei­rut, serving K~rtaba and its

J. Abboud Named Mayor of Kartaba

emor Staff School at Qmsllmah i a "crtJ,t'd-getlcr" from thestart. Three yOllllgsters are attelldillg classes there tIll fall IIl1der thetutorslllp of .\lrs. J F. Chapllll. They are. fll)m left. secolld gradasPat and Jhlll! Babb arId fOllrth grada Charles Babb. There fl'ere noschool-agers last year at Qaisllmah. ft'hereas III 1959 thel e ,ure onll'ttcO. (Photo collrt sy of J . .\1. Xehmc). .

Nineteen sons and dallghters of I'll rOlf Taplim:rs are attendillE! SeniorStaff School classes. fdth (standing, from right) JlIesdames ClarenceP. Booth. Kamal H, Aoun. Robert H. Leu'is and Carl 'charn as theirteachers. (Photo by asr).

The enior Staff School censlls at Badallah slllm's that tCII c1l1ldl enallsfeered the call to classe tIllS year to stlldy III/dcr the tlltorship of ,Urs.John Samaha (secolld f,olll left) and .\Irs. IIaskell IIargroH (secolldfrom right). They are. fro III left, standillg•.\lO/jorle Ritter, grade 8,Terry Arnold, grade 4. CYlltllla Samaha. first grade. arolllle Crosth­wait, grade 2, Kelly ,,1mold, grade 4. and Richard .,1mold. grade 7;and, seated, first graders ,\10110 Tllrk, AZlz Jllya alld SaeclI Thaddells.1 ot af'allable for the photograph fl'as Sixth Grada Patnc/O .-1 mold.(Photo by Smr).

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With us again from longstateside vacati n is • tationSuperintendent Dudley P.Harbin, who made the re­turn trip to Beirut by shipthrough the Panama and

(C01ltinu~d IIn,t pag~)

Sidon

Rafha

The company's l\larineCommittee, \\hich includesWalter E. Locher, RobertA. Prusinski, Captain Ab­ner A. Brickhouse andRichard R. Burnett, imeeting regularly every weekto formulate plan for theextension at Sidon Terminalof submarine herth I o. Iand 3, which will be locatedin deeper water to accom­modate the large t uper­tankers.

The Sidon Terminal wel­coming wagon happily re­ceives :\looring :\Ia ter K.E. Hopen, on return herewith family from a one-and­a-half year a signment withthe Bahrain Petroleum Com­pany. Captain Hopen hafourteen year of continuousservice \\~th Tapline, tock­holder and affiliated com­panies to hi, credit.

Mrs. Per Jespersen hasleft for Ra Tanura to joinher husband, who is thereon temporary assignment asl\Iooring :\Ia ter.

The Terminal's out tand­ing sports e\'ent in early'- ovcmber was a match playon the 5th between Beirut

porting Club and ZahraniCountry Club golfers. Ourplayers dow ned the \'isitorsby 31 ~ ~assau point to22~. Congratulation to BudFord on hi return to formwith a gros core of 72.

The October monthly me­dal golf competition-waswon bv Frank Dolezal,who posted a net 6 .

Z..C.'s imitation to theRas el Lados Golf Club, ofJ.P. .-Tripoli, for a golfmatch on the Zahrani courseO\'er the • T ovember 25-26weekend ha been accepted.In September, our playersuccumbed to Ras cl Ladosin a two-ball four orne aswell as in the single

visit his bed-ridden wife.

Alzlan wa Sahlan to Mrs.Abdullah(Jackson) Abdul­Muhsen, who arri\ed herewith her children from Bah­rain to et up housekeepingin Turaif town.

Farewell to mechanicalengineer Emad Rahbanyand nurse Joseph el-Murr,who have left the fieldpermanently.

Ibrahim Yousuf, Gha­reeb Mutlaq, Ismail Mu­ham mad, MadallahKhamsan, Ali Hassan andSalim Abi-Yaghi took ad­\'antage of the ovember9-10 weekend and the N0­

\'ember 11-12 Acce ionholiday to \ isit Beirut andDama cu . Abdullah Mu­nief, on the other hand,arrived here from Badanahto spend time with hi manyfriend.

and family, on return fromBeirut, where Nazih's fa­ther is on hi way to re­covery from recent illne s.

Howard T. Jensen cap­tured top honors in an 1 ­hole I w gross golf tourna­ment played on Turaif's re­conditioned Never GreenGolf oursI.', 0\ ember 9and 10. The e\ ent hadthirteen enthusiastic contest­ant. Second and third placewinners behind Mr. Jensen,who shot a 71 for 18 hole,were Chuck Hardwick (76)and George F. Heide (77).

ongratulations to Abdul­lah Mahdi on his recentmarriage in Dama eu .

F 110\\ ing his completionof the Pumphou e • hiftForemen Training Programin Beirut headquarters andthe. idon :\ larin • Terminal,

as er Juma'a left for Qa­tar on emergency leave to

ater pi//ar 583 Pipelayers hm'e recmtly bem acqu;red byTapline at th~ total cost of 149,000 for pipeline lIIai1ltmanee 'corkaloTlg the ·LII/e. The pipelayers are stationed at Turaij's l11otor Transportdi"ision. T,co of the III/its are equipped ,,,ith a tandard 20-foot boom.a 10-ton hydrOl;lica//y operated cOllnter-,.'eight OIld hm'e a ilfting capacllyof 65 tons each. The tlurd 'II/it is equipped ,dth dOllble callTIter-weIghts,a 70-foot boolll and is capable of liftiTlg as milch as 20 tons to some 65(ect abo"e the g,olmd. A id~ from ha"dl;"g all ilft;ug "'ork 11/ plpelme;Tla;ntcnanee, the plpelayers ca1l also b~ lIud as push-cats by the company'sroad repair spread. (Photo courtuy of W. R. Pukett),

The lanagement SafetyCommittee met at Turaif

ovember 15. Senior super­vi or in the tation attendedthe meeting along with theregular members of the

ommittee, which includesWalter E. Locher, RobertA. Prusin ki, Frank J. Zu­koski, John P. O'Hagan,George F. Heide, AbnerA. Brickhou e, RichardR. Burnett and Fawzi M.Najm.

One mor' Saudi llomeOw nership Plan hou e wacompleted at 'J'uraif tow nduring the la t week of Oc­tober, Thi brought thenumb 'r of home completedunder the plan in Turaiftow n to twentv-fi\e.

(oordinator' f Emplo) 1.'1.'

Relation' and Mr . JamV. Foody learned with greatplea ure the ne\\ that theiron Jimmy, 13, placed on

the llonor Roll at ]) ·Ibar­t n Scho I, :\Iorristow n,• - 'W Jer C). In addition toplaclOg second in a cia of37 cighth graders, Juniori playing full-back on the

hoo\'s football team.Senior Shift Operator

Hmood azzal wishes to

thank Badanah's Bas' Ilos­pltal stalT, and Dr. Marcel

. Prince in particular, forthe excellent are gl\ en tohim during his recent illne sand operation

Mi Pam la Putnamspent fe\\ days in the station\ isiting her parents. ,'he ia high school Junior at theAmerican 0 m m u nit y.'chool. Iler mother iwihed a peedy rc o\er\from her recent illne s.

Muhammad Suwaik t,Mu sallem Muhammad,Muhammad Othman andMuhammad Suleimanand their familie arc backin tow n from holidays inSyria. The welcome mat isalso out for Mrs. AhmadGhayed, on return from atrip to Beirut; Mrs. John A.Wood, on arrival with herchildren from stateside vaca­tion; Madallah Khamsan,Hajji Swaidan, Muham­mad Karim, Abdo As'adand Abdul Hamid, n re­turn from leaves in Syriaand Dhahran; Fahad Oth­man, on return from hortleave in Dhahran and el­lIasa; and Nazih el-Sheikh

J. G. SaFlfh

graduated last June fromthe Ecole Superieure d'ln­genieur with a degree inci\ il engineering.

I:. I,. Ka tl ilin

arc tenni, I)()"in~, :w Im­min~ and readin\!.

'J he 1.\ t ncw hln:, 'on­·truction Engincr ay gh,hail: from Lehanon. lieJ. B r'aTl Stet

gineer, he Ii t' electronic,photography and watersport a his hobbie .

The third Dutchman tojoin the Turaif group, Mr.Ka telijn, has two ?ns andtwo daughters, Ilis last em­ployment in Rotterdam wasas upen isor of electricalequipment \\ ith a shippingconcern. Mr. Kastelijn hasspent some twenty years inJava, Sumatra, Indonesiaand l • orth Africa. lIe speakFrench, English, German,Arabic, Indonesian and, na­turally, Dutch. Among hishobbies and port avocations

pastimeMr. Van tee i' married

and the proud father of afi\ 1.'-\ car-old daughter,Yvon'ne..\ graduated elec­trician and mechanical en-

Turaif

II. J. Bare1lstm

••avy a corporal electricianon an aircraft carrier. Be­fore joining Tapline, heworked for :tam'ac l·. Y.,The Hague, a first electri­cian on tanker ships. Mr.Barensten Ii t reading andtable-tenni as hi favorite

\\'elcome aboard to fournew comer to the 'tation,tation Electrician I nstru­ment :\Ien Hendrick J.Barensten, Johannes B.Van Stee and Ear mus E.Kastelijn, and on -truc­tion Engineer Jo eph G.Sayegh.

.\ hachelor. Mr. Baren­sten ened from 19S0 to19-: -: 10 the RO\al Dutch

FllIndat"m r~pOlr and Of. erhalll 011 duul nlr:"'~ .\'0. b at QOI IIl11ah', pUlllplwu eras compl t ./ 011 'Ott71l"O10. IlOr.1I abOt ~ nmotl~r: th~ 1110;11 b~ar;nlil cap frolll th~ d'nd nI "'~ dllflTlIiI th~ all rll<1111 arc. from Irft. '[ alllrHo an, Faha,wd OthOlb,. Issa JaSSlm, OrwyTled II1mTla1l and al~h Abdul-,I::I::. (I'hoto by Ibd"Uah HIII/IIIII­mad).

Qaisumah.\. ·t::,tant l hId .\' ount­

ant uh il M. Chamieharn\ ~d 10 Qal:umah, 0 to­her _ , on a bu:ine'.' trip topump . tation::, along the'Line, wher he outlinednew . I.' ounting pro edure'to he follow ed in audi:\r hia a of Dee mber I.

Welcome to Dr. MaurieA. Baroody, on return fr m\ acati n 10 ,'ouk el- harb,Lehanon, and au ,r 0;' toDr. lauric Attieh, whore urn d to the Ba'e Ho'­pi al at Badanah on comple­tion of hi - relief a -i nmenthere.

Th welcome mat i- a\'out for material- -peciali-tluhammad Ayed, on re­

turn from hohda\ 10 Havel;eneral craft me'n Hmoud

Alaywan and AbdullahRa hid, on return from \'a-atl· n 10 Dhahran; janitor

Ali Ha him, on return fromleave 10 d-Ha a; turbinedIe 1.'1 mechamc' Fahad andFahayed uleiman, on re­t 1m from a holida~ amongtheir parent 10 Bak 'a; Mr.and Mr . Abdullah Khalaf,on ret 1m from a one monthlea\ C 10 al-Qa eem withplan to et up permanenthou.ekeeping in Qai umah

w n....:nin~ the Qai umah \ i ­

I ,r' rt.:":1 tcr dunng Octo­I cr wert.: Robert A. Pru in-ki and William V. Hall,

of Burut, George F. Heide,John R. Terry, ClarenceP. Booth, James V. Foody,John Torre, Carl

charn, Kenneth E. Parrand Jean Obeid, of Turaif;Edward C. 01 en and Ri­chard Rag dale, of Rafha;Harry F. Hopper, of Ba­danah; and Mrs. Jack Em­ery, of . -ariyah.

Temperature at Qai umahduring October ranged froma minimum of S6 degreeFahrenheit regi tered Octo­ber at 2000 hour, to arna imum of 100 degreeFahrenheit recorded on Oc­tober 9 at 1100 hour .

p OPE

York Offi'" \ isi ted Beiru theadquarters and the Sidon:\larin' Terminal, .'O\em­ber 6 and i.

Rob rt . Pru in ki, b­ner A. Brickhou e andRichard R. Burn tt madean in:pecllon tnp b~ ear ofth' plpdll1e 111 Lebanon and."na, ,'member 13 and 14.\\hde Captain Brickhou ereturned to • Idon, Mr.Pru in ki and Burnett In-pected the ,lClion of the

pipcline in Jordan.Donald W. Dr ier,

Emil Y. ya h, Harry F.Hopp r and John P. O'Ha­gan are back III B 'inn head­quarters from short bu i­ne's trip to Dhahran.. tillthere on company bU'lIleas \\ell are W. V. Ti tjenand Thoma D. Durrance,\'ice President of Publi Re­lation , \\ ho returned to Bei­rut \\ nh Mr . Durrance,early in .'o\ember, from aten-day holidav in Athenand 'rete. .

The Robert G. Van Peur-em ar' off to the 'nited

.'tate on holiday. Harry F.Hopp r is a 'uming the du­ties and rcsp n ibilitie ofthe Company Repn:entati\e

Pipe Line .\rea duringMr. Van Peur em's ab­sence.

F. W. New returned ~o­

vember 9 from long \"aca­tion, which he used to makean around-the-world cruise.

Congratulations to AramA. Balian, of Engineering,on his recent engagement toMiss Ada Minassian, ofAleppo, Syria. A Springwedding i' planned.

Public Relation l\1anagerSalih AI-As'ad made a four­day busines trip to Jordanduring ovember.

Beirut

If tfllnk" or. "lIl1t1l IIpOIl thc" bro,n, tlu.l' art 'IUt ",,11"11 lipan the'rhcart . •11thou/1h both art abot'l' forty-fit' .wars of 0/1", allthorized Imuh­mrll J[lIlfi AImd (I.ft) alld .Hllhammad ClawUI are the mo t ardentstlldmts alltlldillg Taplille' D.'t'r/opmUlt Sci'ool at Badar",h. ThnrIforkshift lory aror",d thc clock, bill J/lllji ami ,\lIIIIll",,,,,,d 11(1I~ ",arlllg~d

1101 10 mi a da Ctt, sma Ihey joimd Ih. uhool i" J I/I~/I I, 1960,10lcam Ihe e st'rlllllis of E"/1lish alld mall" malus. (1'1""0 by So,,).

Another dinner in honorof Mr. Chandler \\ a' h 'tedby Station .'uperintendentJohn H. Arnold.

The ompany Represent­ati\e Pipe Line .\rea and

rs. Rob rt G. an Peur-em left Badanah, 0 tober

22, after 'pending two week'at the tat ion on compan~

bu ines'.Office .'upervi' r lbert

aliba i' ba k from a "\\on­derful" holidav in Beirut.

Mr . Jack 'Emery, \\ ifeof Aramco' former repre-entative in Qai umah, ar­

rived here from .'ariyah tovi it Mr .John . amaha,formerly f Qai umah too."Thi i probabl' my la t,isit to the 'Line," aidMrs. Emery, "'ince Jack\\ ill be retiring in .'o\"em­ber."

One more 'audi Home0\\ ner'hip Plan hou e \\ acompleted at ':\r'ar early in• '0\ ember for .'audi ArabTapliner Abdul- ziz Su­leiman. Thi bring thetotal of home completed intown under the plan tothirty-three.

Tapline Pre ident Johnoble returned .'0\ ember

20 from a bu iness trip tothe .nited State' of abouttwo weeks.

Early in 'o\'ember RossC. Hiil and Fouad N.Khabbaz made a fi\e-daytrip to Dhahran, where theyreviewed Aramco develop­ments in power and pump­ing equipment control sys­tern.

K. R. Webster, :\Ianagerof :\Ianufacturing and OilSupply in Aramco's ew

orientation in station oilhandling, shore control, tankcontrol and Po\\ nhou,'e op­erations at Sidon; as \\ ell atraining in gauging, 'ampl­ing and manifold operationsthere. While in Lebanon,aleh also had a chance to

tour :\Iedre o's Refinen' and\ isit the Grotto of Jeit;, theprincipal ource of the DogRi\ el, \\ hi 'h supplie' Beirut\\ ith potable \\ ater. ,\t thegrotto, .~aleh had the op­portunity of a loat trip onits 'ubterranean lake, III

fain -land 'urrounding'.,'acations ha\"e ,tarted for

al-Humaidi Hamad, Mu­hammad Mubarak, Ha­mad Muhammad, a'adMajid, a'id Ahmad anda'ud Muhammad, but

the\ are o\'er for RedaAbdul- amad, Muham­mad Habib, Fahed Raffa'and Muhammad a'id.

Badanah IHi Highne Amir 'Abd

Allah ibn 'Abd al-'Azizibn Musa'ad, Amir of the..orthern Frontier, re-turned ctober 2- to hiheadquarter in 'Ar'ar froma two-week hunting trip inthe Yicinity.

Fi\'e day: after hi arri\'al,Hi Highne played ho t ata dinner party i\'en inhonor of Executi\'e YicePresident William R.Chandler, \\ho came toBadanah with Dr. AmjadGhanma on a three-daybu ines trip. .

ucz l ;In;lb. r. Harbinthu~ h:1 i:1 lunce to \isit,amon~ other p1.l eS. olon­b, c\ Ion. \ustr.llia. Peru,T;lhlll ';lnd the FiJI Isbnd:.

irs. Harbin nude the re­turn tnp b~ pl;lne ;It ;I sub­~equent d;lte,

Mr. and Mrs. EverettR. Robert on and their two\"oun :ters, irion, 9, andRalph Jr., ~, h;l\e ;II '0 re­turned to the tJtlOn froma three-month holid;l\" \\ hichh:1: taken them half-\\ a\ar und the \\orld. Mr. Ro­bert on u cd part of hi'le;l\ t: t :ho\\ hI' \\ IfI' andt\\O hlidren the Europeanbattlefield' \\ here he foughts a World \\ar II artillen"­

man. The Rob rt on fie\\from BeIrut to Rome inJuh. There the' rented ac;lr' and .pent three \\eek'ourin Itah, France, er-

man\", :\u trIa and ~witzer­

land: \\ ith 'pecial emph 'in the battle round' wherefr. Robert on a\\ action.~tate Ide, the Robertsons:pent rna of their time\"i itin relatl\" - in Dothan,. la., in ludin Mr. Robert­son' father and Mr , Ro­bertson's mother.

Ahlan u'a ahlan to alehYahya, on return fron Leb­anon \\ here he completedthe company' Pumphou e. hift Foremen TraininProgram in Beirut head­quarter and the .~idon ~Ia­

rine Terminal. The pro­gram con i t of familiariza­tion in truction at the oildi patching office in Beirut;

BaMnah pump Jlation i, mighty proud of its netc "spray.truck"-aDodg~ potur ua/1on mounud ,41th j/}' fighting ~qlllpment. T~ brainchildof Ra}mond H ••Uasst')·, t~ partiall} com~rltd tehicl~ carries a drumccmtoln' a muture of kerosene and D,D. T. A copper tube, tdth ,'alt;e,runs from tM drum and tIes into tlCO exhaust PIPes. When t~ "alu isopmed, tM kerosene·D,D. T. mixture runs through t~ copper tub~ intot~ hot e haust pl/>n, uhere the kerosene ,'aporizes and a D.D. T. can·ta;m ,apor II spra)ed. PromiSIng results hat'e been obtained after af .prtl)'''iS of W station compound. (Photo by O. E. Ritter).