{"id":572,"date":"2009-01-27T20:47:29","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T16:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/?p=572"},"modified":"2009-01-27T20:47:29","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T16:47:29","slug":"ruwais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/?p=572","title":{"rendered":"Ruwais"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had the &#8220;opportunity&#8221; to travel to Ruwais recently. It&#8217;s near the Saudi border if you travel along the coast Southwest towards Qatar. You can&#8217;t drive from the UAE to Qatar because Saudi Arabia sometime around 1974 got a 15 mile stretch of coast land from Abu Dhabi in return for guarantees that it would not challenge the UAE&#8217;s right to the Buryami Oasis, Al Ain and surrounding areas. But once in Ruwais, I was actually closer to Doha than to Dubai if by land. It is a company town and the company is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adnoc.ae\/\">ADNOC<\/a>, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. It&#8217;s one of the world&#8217;s largest oil companies and the backbone of the UAE economy. I was there to participate in a design workshop as a representative of Yamasaki.  Below are some images of the ADNOC executive retreat and residential compound where I stayed and the oil refinery at night.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/2009.01.11.08.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/2009.01.11.30.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/2009.01.11.24.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/2009.01.11.10.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the &#8220;opportunity&#8221; to travel to Ruwais recently. It&#8217;s near the Saudi border if you travel along the coast Southwest towards Qatar. You can&#8217;t drive from the UAE to Qatar because Saudi Arabia sometime around 1974 got a 15 mile stretch of coast land from Abu Dhabi in return for guarantees that it would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/?p=572\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ruwais&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}