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Aramco Calls for the Implementation of 4.0 Industrial Revolution

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Aramco Calls for the Implementation of 4.0 Industrial Revolution

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Saudi Aramco encouraged representatives of the oil and gas industries to press ahead with implementing Fourth Industrial Revolution (4.0) technologies, during its participation at the 2019 Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (ADIPEC).

Speaking at a panel titled “How is the industry embracing digital innovation?” on the industry’s digital transformation and the latest trends in technology, Aramco’s Senior VP of Operations and Business Services Muhammad al-Saggaf, discussed the company’s research and development (R&D).

He also addressed the deployment of the TeraPOWERS technology, which models reservoir physics from the original generation to final production. This technology enables Aramco to model the physics of its reservoirs to prioritize prospects, reduce exploration risks and costs, and manage its reservoirs.

Senior Vice President of Downstream Abdulaziz al-Judaimi will participate on Wednesday in panel “Downstream 4.0: Refining and Petrochemicals, Growth Through Innovation and Digitization,” on new strategies around digital, people and business partnership.

He is expected to shed light o the opportunities presented by 4th Industrial Revolution technologies and reaffirm Aramco’s commitment to continue developing, harnessing, and fully utilizing the emergent technologies for value creation.

World Economic Forum (WEF) recognized Aramco’s efforts in the energy sector’s 4.0 transformation in September 2018 when the company’s Othmaniyah Gas Plant was named one of the Fourth Industrial Revolution 4.0 “lighthouses”.

Aramco is the first energy company globally to be included in this group of 16 manufacturing sites selected from an initial list of 1,000 manufacturers from around the world.

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Syria Forms Committee to Draft Transitional Constitutional Declaration

Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa talks to attendees during a national dialogue, a key milestone in the transition to a new political system after decades of Assad rule, in Damascus, Syria February 25, 2025. (Reuters)
Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa talks to attendees during a national dialogue, a key milestone in the transition to a new political system after decades of Assad rule, in Damascus, Syria February 25, 2025. (Reuters)
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Syria Forms Committee to Draft Transitional Constitutional Declaration

Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa talks to attendees during a national dialogue, a key milestone in the transition to a new political system after decades of Assad rule, in Damascus, Syria February 25, 2025. (Reuters)
Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa talks to attendees during a national dialogue, a key milestone in the transition to a new political system after decades of Assad rule, in Damascus, Syria February 25, 2025. (Reuters)

Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa announced on Sunday the formation of a committee to draft a constitutional declaration for the country's transition after the overthrow of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad.

The new authorities are focused on rebuilding Syria and its institutions after Assad's removal on December 8, ending more than half a century of his family's iron-fisted rule and 13 years of devastating war.

The presidency announced "the formation of a committee of experts", including one woman, tasked with drafting "the constitutional declaration that regulates the transitional phase" in Syria.

The seven-member committee would "submit its proposals to the president", it said in a statement, without specifying a timeframe.

In late January, Sharaa, leader of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group which spearheaded Assad's overthrow, was appointed interim president for an unspecified period.

Syria's new authorities have repealed the Assad-era constitution, and Sharaa has said rewriting it could take up to three years.

In late January, Sharaa promised a "constitutional declaration" to serve as a "legal reference" during the country's transitional period.

Sunday's announcement came "based on the Syrian people's aspirations in building their state based on the rule of law, and building on the outcomes of the Syrian national dialogue conference", said the presidency.

It also came "with the aim of preparing the legal framework regulating the transitional phase", it added.

A national dialogue conference held this week in Damascus set out a path for the new Syria.

The committee includes Abdul Hamid al-Awak, who holds a doctorate in constitutional law and lectures at a university in Turkiye, and Yasser al-Huwaish, who was appointed this year as dean of Damascus university's law faculty.

It also includes Bahia Mardini, a journalist with a doctorate in law who has been living in Britain, and Ismail al-Khalfan, who holds a doctorate in law specializing in international law, and who this year was appointed law faculty dean at Aleppo university.

Another committee member, Mohammed Reda Jalkhi, holds a doctorate in law specializing in international law from Idlib university, where he graduated in 2023.

The final statement of this week's dialogue conference called for "a constitutional committee to prepare a draft permanent constitution for the country that achieves balance between authorities, sets the values of justice, freedom and equality, and establishes a state of law an institutions".

Syria's conflict broke out in 2011 after Assad brutally repressed anti-government protests.

It spiraled into a complex conflict that has killed more than 500,000 people, displaced millions more domestically and abroad and battered the economy, infrastructure and industry.

In December, a caretaker government was appointed to steer the country until March 1, when a new government was due to be formed.