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Vol. 12 • No.8. TRANS-ARABIAN PIPE LI E COMPA Y, BEIRUT, LEBANON September 1964

ROAD IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM IS PROGRESSING SATISFACTORILYAsphalt treatment of the exist­

ing 817-kilometer pipeline roadbetween Qaisumah and Turaif isprogressing at a satisfactory pace.

By mid-August, the Road Im­provement Progran crew hadapplied the first armor coat on 115kilometers westward from Qaisu­mah. The prime coating had beenapplied on 120 kilometers; initialshaping and grading had been

completed on 123 kilometers andearth work had gone as far as130 kilometers.

Finished asphalt-surfaced widthof the road will be 24 feet. Bothsides of the road will have gradedshoulders.

Surface treatment of the roadgot underway at Qaisumah lastFebruary. Barring unforeseen de­lays, it is expected to be com-

pleted within a period of three tofour years.

Current efforts are centered onasphalt surfacing the 300 kilo­meter Qaisumah-Rafha stretch byearly 1965.

Several Saudi Arab contractorshave been engaged by Tapline inthis program, sun'eying the road,and hauling crushed material,water and asphalt.

Now 14 years old, the pipelineroad accommodates a heavy flowof traffic, both commercial and forpipeline operation. Built to sup­port the original pipeline con­struction and its subsequent main­tenance and protection, the roadhas, by virtue of its geographicallocation alone, become a vitalartery providing commercialtrucking access to the ArabianPeninsula.

Asphalt distributor of 2,200 galla II capacity primes surface of pipelille road t<'ith cut-back asphalt through 13 ft.pipe sprayer.

Its direct route across l':orthernSaudi Arabia has greatly reducedthe time required to transportgoods overland from the Easternt\Iediterranean to Eastern SaudiArabia.

Road scales donated by Taplineto Saudi Arabia to enable thegovernment to control the weightof trucks entering the pipelineroad at Turaif were placed inoperation in July. Statistical in­formation on truck weights isbcing gathered by two membersof the Communications Ministryin conjunction with a Unitedl':ations advisor to thc SaudiArabian Govcrnment.

The first of their kind to beused in Saudi Arabia, the roadscales will enable SAG andTapline to learn exactly the truck\\ eights on both east and wcst­bound traffic.

An armor coat of heavy grade wt-back asphalt and cover stolle has yetto be appLied all this primed section of the pipeLine road. Ollce the armorcoat is applied and rolled, the section will be open for traffic.

Turaij's recently-illstalled 'road scale is used to weigh the front axle ofan east-boulld truck.

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NEWSenough to make shale 011 competi­tive with oil from \\ells.

Ground is to be broken on theirplant near Rifle this fall andproduction is scheduled to startin January 1967.

Reserves of the shale 10 westernColorado, eastern Utah and south­western \Vyoming are estimatedto be more than one trillionbarrels, or three to seven timesthe total known conventional oilreserves in the world,

THEINuled to go IOtO operatIon in 1967.

Talk of tapping the vast shaleoil reserves has been going on foryears and lots of oil from shale hasbeen produced in research.

But the high cost has held backcommercial production.

However, President lIein I.Koolsberge of the Oil Shale Corp.in Denver has told tandard Oilof Ohio stockholders that thetechnology has been developedand producing costs trimmed

Shortly after her high school graduation tcith honors frail/ the LebaneseEvangelical School for Girls, .Hiss Zeill Ghanll/a, daughter of Dr. alld.11rs. AII/jad Ghalllna, .cas chosen July 6 as .. The ideal Camper" of theY ..1,I.C.A. at DllOur el-Sh.cair..Hiss Ghallma, tcho is J 7, has bUllaccepted at the American Uni.'ersity of BeiTllt as a freshmall-scifflcesstndent. She plallS to fol101c he.. father's medical footstep".

INDUSTRY

Oil From Shale

The first plant to produce com­mercial oil from shale is sched-

Leaps in Libya

Libyan crude oil productionreached 848,291 BPD in June toboost the first six months' averageto 762,020 BPD. Shipments fromtwo existing terminals (Brega andSidra) are running at about750,000 BPD. By the beginningof 1965, a third Libyan terminal,at Lanuf, will add 160,000 BPDto export capacity. AltogetherLibya could be exporting overone million barrels daily nextyear. In 1966, when BP/Hunt addan initial 100,000 BPD throughHariga terminal, some 1,135,000BPD of Libyan oil could be on themarket-about the same as Iraqproduces at present.

continuing.

his successor as English teacherat Qaisumah-Hussain Hamoud.Mr. Murib is transferring toTuraif.

Employees who were presentfor the graduation ceremony wereSaud Abdul Aziz, Obaid Fershahand Bateh J abhan, of Services;Mustafa ujaidi, of Saudi ArabGovernorate; gatemen '1uham­mad Omar, Youssef Abdallah andMuhammad Ali; Fuhaid Rashid,Saad Suleiman and A. Abdul­Aziz Saleh, of Pumphouse; Ab­dallah Muhammad and Muham­mad Saud, of C. E. and I.; SaadFaraj, of Turaif Motor Trans­port; and Abd-Rabbuh Harthi, ofAramco.

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Nineteen student-employees at­tending classes at the company'sDevelopment School in Qaisumahhave earned Certificates of Pro­motion for the first semester of1964.

The certificates were presentedto them by their respective super­visors at the Community Centerin July. Attending the presenta­tion were Acting tation Super­intendent James F. Chaplin andTeacher Omar F. Murib.

Recipients of Certificates of Proll/otion at Qaisumah tdth their Teacher face the camera.

Oil Strike in Oman

Oil has been found "in suffi­cient quantity to justify commer­cial production" at three locations,Yibal, Natih and Fahud, in theSultanate of Muscat and Oman insouth-eastern Arabia by Petro­leum Development (Oman). Thecompany, in which hell has 85percent interest and Partex (Gul­benkian holdings) the remainder,has drilled nine exploratory wellsbut more information is requiredto assess the commercial signi­ficance of the discoveries andfuture prospects of the concession.Drilling and esmic work are

I n a short speech \\ hich pre­ceded the presentation of diplo­mas, Mr. '1urib urged student­employees to continue their intel­lectual pursuits and introduced

Information malter reported inthis column is compiled from andbased on rt>ports reuntly publishedin the following magazines andperiodicals: Petroleum Press Serv­ice, Middle East Economic Surveyand ~Vorld Petroleum.

19 STUDENT EMPLOYEES EARNCERTIFICATES OF PROMOTION

}'ear i96./429,414

356422,3 7257,000

July371,444

50400,948259,000

Average BPD recei"ed at Sidon , .Ships loaded .',., .... "".,.,.,.,., .. 'Average BPD dell"ered to offtakersA"erage Size of ships loaded, . ' . , . , , , . " ,A"erage BPD delivered to ships, Medreco

and IPC ' ,.""" , , , ' , , . , . , , . , " 408,206 433,779Pipeline throughput slipped in July to finish at 371,444 barrels

daily, or about 52,350 barrels below June's daily average.Deli"cries from Sidon to ships, I\ledreco and IP also finished

lower, a"eraging 408,206 barrels per day during July against 414,320barrels daily in Junc.

Deli"eries from Sidon were estimated to average 320,000 barrelsper day dUring August,

A Qaisumah t>mployee receius his safety prize from J. J. Kelbert>r. SafetyEngint>er Fart'zi Xajm is on right, Indit'idual prizt>s art> git'en to eachemployee in a company IInit which has earned a President's Leiter of SafetyAchiet:ement. IIch indit'idllal prizes are inlt!1lded to sert'e as safety re­minders rather than material inducements.

Installa~ion of the stack atop the Jalamid turbine L'an 011 July 28 markedcompletloll of ot'erhaul tt'ork on the Jalamid auxiliary pumping IInit.

Beirut before sailing to England.Prior to her departure from

Badanah, she was entertained attwo farewell functions hosted,respectively, by a group of stationphysicians and Emile Chalhoub.

Fifty-five guests from the Ba­danah hospital staff attended theJuly 29 function hosted by Doc­tors Edmond Sifri, Fuad Iliya,Nizar Turk and Michel Khouryat the latter's home.

Mr. Chalhoub's farewell partyto Miss Kaibni was held July 30.

With Tapline since Aug. 24,1957, Miss Kaibni is a graduate ofthe American niversity of Bei­rut School of Nursing.

Before joining the company asa staff nurse, she had served in thesame capacity at the AugustaVictoria Hospital in Jerusalem.

She lists reading and musIc asher favorite pastimes.

An outdoor dinner was served by Emile Chalhoub July 30 in honor O,f M,'ss H' v 'b" I d t{ B da h . " Iyam n.Q1 III pTior to ler epar ureJrom a na on vacatIon and subsequent educational leave of absence. (Photo by Nasr).

F. C. Nojia

John Franjieh

R. M. Weeks

Deeb Aha

Mrs. J. F. Chaplin

S. S. Dabaghi

Kamal Abu-Zeid

Mrs. Kamal Aoun

Editor

Amman

New York

Qaisumah

Qaryatain

Rafha

Sidon

Turaif

Tapline's Chief Nurse, :Hiss Hiyam Kaibni. (Photo by l\asr).

Reporters:

Badanah Moussa Soulbon

Beirut Rose Sawdah

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SpeTLIGHT

Tapline's Chief Kurse HiyamKaibni sails from Beirut Sept. 1en route to the United Kingdom,where she will take a nine-month:\"ursing Administration (Hospi­tal) Course at London's RoyalCollege of Nursing.

The course, which starts Sept.23, covers the following syllabus:Administration of Training Schooland Hospital, The Social Pattern,Personnel Management and Gen­eral Principles of Administration,History of the Growth of theNursing chool, )/utrition andCatering, General Psychology andEthical Principles, and PracticalWork (nine weeks in differenttypes of hospital in London andelsewhere).

Miss Kaibni had left BadanahAug. 2 to spend her vacation in

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Georgette Haddad measllres Ihe blood pressllre of a pallelll al Ihe Badallah hospilal.

Adel Cholleiri (lefl) alld Fadtl"O Royall cOlllesl a game of badll/lllloll dunllg off-dillY hOIlI'S.

Assislalll chief IIl1rses Allahid KOII­luiall (foregrollnd) alld FalmehAbll Zahr are seell/illgly prepared10 defelld Iheir pailllillg efforls illIhe modem fiel.-! agaillsl allY crilic.

f-I NURSESOFF DUTY

(PHOTOS BY 1 ASR)

on a par with other careers open to womenlcterized by a spirit of service to mankind.andicapped at the company hospital in Ba­,ary on Sept. 19, are 33 nurses, including

Florence Nightingales" put in her time is aask themselves.the way, "Miss Florence Nightingale" oncan "get the works" while exchanging theUnless on a Beirut jaunt, her shopping ex­lres, or some times the nearby town suq.e along with the Periscope Camera and you

.Jpparmlly regislerillg Ihis complailll,"Visillg flurse Nijmeh Nazzal, is all11 in lilly.

While nursing has become a prof,today, it will undoubtedly always be

Tending the sick, the weak anddanah, which celebrates its tenth an,18 men and 15 women.

Just how does each of Badanah'question that the folks back home n

Once the hospital duties are outhe 'Line has no beauty shop whertlatest news with her sisters of the depeditions are limited to the commun

What docs she do with her timewill find the answer.

BADAON A

Hey, somebody lurll off Ihal jlatehile ClIddled in Ihe arms ofillfalll bom al Ihe Badallah hn

Vmayma Sarkis, Nurse-Gmeral Dilly, registers {'isitors to the female clinic at thecompany hospital i71 Badanah.

Slaff Nurse ilidal Hilldi prepares sllrgical eqllipmelllfor slerilizalioll allhL Cmlral SlIpply Room of Ihe Badallahhospilal.

Se1:ell Badallah IIl1rses hat'e all off dilly coffee breah olllside Iheir lit'illg quarters. They are, from lefl, .i\1issesClaire ayegh, Fad.ca Rayall, Georgelle Haddad, Azeezeh issa, Jlalaluh lOll/ai, .Hllahid KOllheiall alld Ade/Cholleiri. The lilly loIs are Hiyam liries (slalldillll) alld Rima JUoOll"Od.

Claire Sayegh (left) and Azeezeh issa settle doten 10 Iheir fat"OTile paslime of hllittillg.

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rTammalll 7. \'akkmh

Of Haarlem, Holland, :'lr. Cor­bee was contracted July 31 aso ernces SpecIalist (Road Im­provement Pr gram).

lIatem .11. lIajj

:'les. rs. II aJJ and akkash \\ erehired July III as constructIOn l'n­gineer '. Thl'Y had graduated fromAl'B', School of En!::meenn/( onlmonth earlier.

.-'\ statlOn-\\lde party \\,1 heldhere m l'arlv J uk to IntroduClGeneral Sup~nntend~nt \Ir \.Kearney to Rafha emplovee. andtheIr famlhe

Get-togethu dmner \\ere al 0

ho ted 10 July by the H. D.lIonours, :"lr. and :\Ir. E. :.Tracey and :'lr. and :'lr . Antoine(,. Ghaby.

On July 26, the Rafha CIlmmu­OIl', entertamed :"1. A. Kearney,J.J. Kelberer, (;. F. Heide, A. E.01 on, G. II. 'anoles and F W.:'\ew at a dmner party too. TheRafha \\lmming Pool Asso la­tion's harhecue on July 9 wasvoted an outstandm~ success hythe membershIp.

Off on holiday arc ;\lr. and Mrs.A. X. Verhoeven, I [amdan Ab­dallah, Abdallah uleiman, SalehYahya, :"luhammad :\1isfer, M.Bada'a, Dalfallah Ilamad :lnd:Ylansoor ently. Leaves haveended for Hamdan Zakl, MishrefHamad and Saad :Ylajid.

Anton Corbee

Dr. Fathi Jishshi

tatlOn Office upervlsor DeehAho. Attendmg the function \\ereMr. and Irs. James F Chaplinand Robert X a))ar.

Ibrahim :'Iuhawis, the ne\\ Iy­appointed supenntendent of theLabor Office, Xorthern FrontIers,and labor inspector Ibrahim :\Iuh­ri) visited Qalsumah station facil­Ities m late July. They \\ere en­tertamed at a dmner partv hy'Relations Repre entatl\e \luham­mad Abdul-Rahman

:'Ir. Abdul-Rahman abo pl.\\'edhost m July at dmner partieshononng the \\'. R. P,cketh, \\ hoare back to Turalf, and the JamesF. Chaplins, on their transfer heT<from Qaryatam

Ahmad haml, 01 SaudI \rahGO\'ernorate, i. hack to Badan.lhfollowmg a two-week as i/(nmenthere.

Xewhlres at Rafha arc DrFathi J ,shsh" Anton Corbee.Hatlm :\luhammad I Ia)) andTammam Zakl , 'akkash.

Rafhe

A recent AUB graduate, Or.JIshshi )omed Rafha's medIcalstaff in July as PhYSICIan General

Practice.

President William R. Chandlerhosted a luncheon at the PhoeniciaAug. 6 in honor of His HighnessAmir 'Abd Allah ibn 'Abd al­'Aziz ibn Musa'ad, Amir of theNorthern Frontiers, who is spend­ing the summer in Lebanon.l\1embers of the Amir's staff,representatives of the Saudi Ara­bian embassy in Ileirut and Com­pany officials attended the func­tion.

Mr. and Mrs. Atef Jubayli re­turned to Beirut in mid-Augustwith gifts to their friends andmemorable souvenirs from athree-week holiday in London,Paris, Frankfurt, Gene"a andRome. It was Atef's first "real"vacation since 1957 when heembarked on a tight work andscholastic schedule to obtam, lastJune, his M.B.A. from the Amer­ican University of Beirut.

Henry Mose, "ice PreSidentof Socony Mobil and a TaplineBoard member, was in BeirutAug. 11.

Executive Vice President W. E.Locher and family left Beirut onlong vacation in early Augu t.

General Attorney (Dhahran) L.

Alex Gilliam, Jr., is relie\'in/(W. A. Robinson who left BeirutAug. 16 on vacation and a sub­sequent management tramingcourse at Harvard 'niversity.

A. E. Olson, former ChiefEngineer, left Beirut Aug. 7

following consultations with Tap­line Management.

Manager of Government Re­lations - Saudi Arabia R. E.Marsh and J. A. abmi, taffCoordinator-Government Rela­tions, made business trips to the'Line during the first half ofAugust.

The welcommg mat IS out forMr. and Mrs. Shawki Freiha onreturn from honeymoon.

Beirut

QaisumahChief Accountant Suheil Cha­

mieh and A. G. Gray, who is on aspecial assignment in the Compt­roller's Department in Beirutfrom the Kew York Office, visitedQaisumah Aug. 1. They were thedinner guests that evening of

Dr. Marcel Saghir

Our hats are tipped for DoctorsMarcel Saghir and Abdul-AzizBilbisi, who joined the Badanahhospital staff in July. The twobachelors are graduates of theAmerican University of Beirut.

Dr. Abdel-Azi::r Bilbisi

Good luck to Chief NurseHiyam Kaibni who is off onvacation and a subsequent nine­month educational leave of ab­sence in the nited Kingdom.Farewell functions were hosted inher honor by Doctors MichelKhoury, Fuad Iliya, EdmondSifri and izar Turk and Con­struction Engineer and Mrs.Emile Chalhoub.

Congratulations to Mr. andIrs. Moussa lVloussa on the birth

of son, Jihad, and Mr. and Mrs.Abdallah •asser on the birth ofson, Muhammad. Both infantswere born at the Badanah hos­pital.

Back to the fold from holidayare Miss Fadwa Rayan, IbrahimAhmad, Mike Nahhal, Dr. andMrs. Edmond Sifri, Mr. and Mrs.Dale E. Garrison, Abdul-HadiMuhammad, Abdul-Rahman Ab­dallah, Miss Leila Daoud, Peter~olde, Miss Leila J ubayli, SaidAbdallah, Miss Fatmeh Abu­Zahr, A. aif, Nasser Jamil and

asser Mohsen.

Badanah

Fadwa Rayan (left) and Adel Chol/eiri sl/nbathing at the Badanahswimming pool.

Jlembns of the Badanah nu.rsing_staff at a dancing party.

'P' ./~~~IIYM~That a "wolllal/'s n'ork is nl'1:er done" is prot'ed by 1I1iss Adel Chol/eiri.1IIarllling her sl'1cing 1IIachine.

Assistant Chief NI/rse Fatmeh Abll Zahr relaxing in her room at thenllrsing ql/arters located in the family hOl/sinl( area at Badanah.

Azeezeh Issa takes time Ol/t from "hollsl'1<'orll" to care for lilies liningsidewalks olltside the nllrses' li,'ing ql/arters at Badanah.

Claire Sayegh and her 1II4rsing colleagues are participating inBadanah'sa/terhour project to make the landsca~ pleasing to the cye.

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Rafha

Allosh B. Sa'dan, of Operationsand Repairs.

Tumif

A. B. Annab, of Central MachineShop.

Dera'a

Mahmoud R. Dabjan, of Opera­tions and Repairs.

Qaisull1ah

Fahed Abdallah, of Administra­tion and General.

Badanah

Y. I. Saleh, of Medical.

Beirut

Sam B. Abd-Unnur, of Comp­troller's.

Joseph H. Bustani, of Purchaseand Traffic.

Muhammad K. Edelbi, of Avia­tion.

Boulos D. Haddad, of Compt­roller's.

Mahmoud R. Halabi, of Purchaseand Traffic.

Ziadeh S. Hayeck, of Comptrol­ler's.

George K. Kanaan, of Operations­General.

Amin F. Kiwan, of Purchase andTraffic.

Fouad N. Khouri, of Purchase andTraffic.

Mary T. Khouri, of Administra-tion and General.

Tanios S. Matta, of Aviation.Deeb E. Saab, of Comptroller's.George E. Saba, of Purchase and

Traffic.George N. Shuhaibar, of Compt­

roller's.Emile S. Suleiman-Homsi, of

Aviation.Emile Wakim, of Comptrol-ler's.

Sidon

George E. Abu Abdallah, ofOperations and Repairs.

Khalil E. Abu Zeid, of Opera-tions-General.

Muhammad S. Arafat, of Marine.Abdallah Y. Assaly, of Marine.Jamil A. Dabaghi, of Motor

Transport.Nagib S. Wehbe, of Marine.Afif N. H. Younan, of Motor

Transport.The four ten-year pin recipients

were:

Twenty-four Tapliners wereawarded three-star emblems inAugust for completing 15 yearsof continuous company service.Four others received two-starinsignia for chalking 10 years ofservice during the same month.

Fifteen-year pin recipientswere:

28 TAPLINERSGET SERVICESTARS IN AUG.

graduate of the American Uni­versity of Beirut.

M. A. Kearney, A. M. Lamp­man and ~azih Sheikh returnedin mid-August from a short tripto Beirut, where they attended theCommunity Development Com­mittee meeting.

Capt. James A. Kay, MarineSuperintendent, Mobil Oil-Li­bya, visited the terminal recently.

R. A. Dudley netted a good 68for 18 holes to win the Julymonthly golf medal.

Capt. and Mrs. A. A. Brick­house returned here from longvacation July 22. Mooring MasterM. K. Nesheim returned fromholiday three days later.

Off from Sidon on leave areCapt. K. E. Hopen and Assistant

uperintendent - Marine andMrs. A. D. Odegaarden.

\Velcome aboard to Fahed An­draos and Ahmad Habli whojoined the terminal workforce onJuly 24 and Aug. 3, respectively,as watchmen.

SidonDick De Boer

A 1951 engineering graduate ofWashington tate University, Mr.

tephens joined our ranks Aug. 3as Senior Engineer, Mechanical.Mr. and Irs. Stephens have twosons and t\\ 0 daughters.

Mr. Christman transferred hereJuly 27 from Aramco-Ras Ta­nura as Foreman Maintenance­Station. The Christmans havetwo children-son Gene Albertand daughter June Marie.

Mr. De Boer, who hails from1I0lland, was hired in July asLead Diesel Gas Turbine Me­chanic.

Dr. Gueyikianjoined the Turaifmedical staff July 31 as PhysicianGeneral Practice. He is a 1963

John L. Stephens

D. Berj A. Gueyikian

The Turaif welcoming wagonhappily receins John L. tephens,Albert M. Christman, Dick DeBoer and Dr. Berj A. Gueyikian.

Turaif

A Letter of Safety Achievement fr01ll President William R. Chandler and individual prizes ,cere presented Jllly11 by Jolm J. Kelberer to Qaisumah station employees for their 1963 safety efforts. Making the trip to Qaisumahwith Mr. Kelberer for the presentations were M. A. Kearney and Fawzi Najm. Sho,an above at the CommunityCenter during the function are the Qaisumah enlployees ,aith lIfessrs. Kearney, Kelberer and W. R. Pickett,seated in foreground.

A series of training sessions on plant protection were recently conducted at Sidon Terminal by Assistant Foreman­Special Services Richard Khattar (center). Attending one of the sessions held in July were, from left, watchmenPhilippe Obeid, Muhammad el-Ali, Khalil Taki and Ahmad Daher. (Photo by Soussi).