Personal recollections of eight interviewees whose careers and lives took them to Saudi Arabia from the 1930s through the 1980s to participate in the growth of an oil company. Aramco shareholders: Chevron (formerly Standard Oil Co. of California), Exxon (formerly Standard Oil of New Jersey), Mobil, Texaco; multicultural workforce, and efforts at cooperation; training Saudi workers; relationships with Saudi rulers and other Middle East governments; cultural differences: preservation of culture, and medical modernization; daily life in Saudi Arabia; engineering operations; Trans-Arabian Pipeline; Aramco management: officers and training; oil pricing difficulties; negotiations for ownership participation with Saudis; 1970s boycott and oil embargo. Interviews with FRANK JUNGERS (b. 1926), engineer, retired chairman and CEO; PAUL ARNOT (1908-1994), chief petroleum engineer and senior vice-president; ELIZABETH ARNOT (b. 1913), Aramco wife, nurse; BALDO MARINOVIC (b. 1925), treasurer, financial officer; WILLIAM L. OWEN (b. 1915), general counsel, negotiator; R. W. "BROCK" POWERS (b. 1926), geologist, corporate executive; PETER SPEERS (b. 1921), translation division head, policy planner; ELLEN SPEERS (b. 1921), Aramco wife, observer. [See also HEALTH AND DISEASES IN SAUDI ARABIA: THE ARAMCO EXPERIENCE under Public Health.]