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Khobar

Al-Khobar is the southern point of the cluster it forms with Dammam and Dhahran on the Gulf coast. Aramco places its own headquarters between Al-Khobar and Dammam, which is the short version of why technology work here follows energy.

Last updated: 10 September 2026

One metropolitan area, three cities

Al-Khobar sits alongside Dhahran and Dammam in a single metropolitan area. Aramco describes its headquarters, in Dhahran, as being “between the two cities Dammam and Al-Khobar”, and for technology hiring the three behave as one labor market.

It is worth reading the listings for all three cities together rather than filtering to one.

The energy-technology institutions next door

Dhahran, a short distance away, holds Aramco's headquarters and KFUPM. Dhahran Techno Valley, operated by a KFUPM subsidiary and adjacent to both, reports more than 1,750 professionals and over 30 global organizations on site, among them SLB, Baker Hughes, Halliburton, Sinopec, Sipchem, Saudi Electricity and Yokogawa.

The SDAIA-KFUPM Joint Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (JRC-AI) was established at KFUPM in January 2022. King Salman Energy Park (SPARK), an Aramco-operated industrial city of roughly 50 km², sits near Buqayq.

No research-output figure for Dhahran Techno Valley

Published patent and publication counts for the valley conflict between sources, so this page states none.