''We are expanding dramatically and we need people - and we aren't getting them in the numbers we want.'' Renewed Urgency to HireĪramco officials say there is a renewed urgency to this recruiting drive because of the continued need for more manpower in the company's traditional activity - oil production - and Aramco's rapid expansion in areas such as electrification and gas production. ''Our biggest problem is manpower,'' an Aramco executive said in an interview at company headquarters in Dhahran, about 800 miles north of here.

Because of the problems in finding workers Aramco has embarked on a new recruiting drive in the United States and Europe and is stepping up its program to recruit and train Saudi nationals. On an around-theclock basis, they drill for oil, certain that it lies miles below these sandy wastes but unsure exactly where.ĭrilling for oil here is difficult business, and so, too, is getting drillers to come to Saudi Arabia, according to the Arabian American Oil Company, which produces nearly all the crude oil in this country of eight million people. In the wilderness of the Empty Quarter, amid red sand dunes that rise hundreds of feet and where the mercury can soar above 140 degrees, the working day never ends for Don Harday and Roy Korbut, both Canadian nationals.

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