The oil giant Saudi Aramco is criticized on social media heavily. The reason is that In the Internet pictures, which is a guest worker from Bangladesh, at the premises of the Saudi group as a human hand disinfection dispenser has to run to circulate.

Although the images were not allocated by Geotagging clearly a place, and have identified a number of User of the premises as the headquarters of Saudi Aramco in Dhahran.

On the pictures of the workers in the Lobby and in front of the building of the oil giants is to see. Several men make use of the disinfectant dispenser. The guest workers wearing gloves and a protective mask. On Twitter, the images are referred to as evidence of "modern slavery" and "racism" and "humiliating".

Bless the uncle who had to endure this obscene level of humiliation.

A South Asian worker in Saudi Arabia was forced to walk round the Aramco offices wearing a large hand sanitizer.

(H/t @HishamFageeh) pic.twitter.com/T7KlBPwXAv

— Areeb Ullah (@are_eb) March 10, 2020

The oil giant itself has called the action in a Tuesday Statement released on Twitter "miss bäuchlich". The managers would only want the current importance of hand disinfection to highlight. "The company has stopped the action immediately and measures taken to ensure that such a thing will not be repeated," writes Saudi Aramco.

Saudi Arabia was already in the past because of the poor treatment of foreign guest workers under attack. According to media reports, Bangladesh confessed in the past year, to have workers from the Kingdom brought back, after they from their Saudi employers have been sexually and physically abused.

Coronavirus causing oil war with Russia

The Situation in the case of Saudi Aramco is tense because of the spread of the Coronavirus. Due to the subsiding oil Consumption, the Oil price falls for weeks. But the big oil promoters don't want to cut production.

The rift between the Kingdom and Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin sees no reason to reduce the Oil production – the revenue were sufficient.

Saudi Arabia, the Situation is now completely escalate and is looking to expand despite the sharp drop in prices, the Oil production even further. The Kingdom will increase its supply in April to a quantity of 12.3 million barrels per day, said Amin Nasser, CEO of Saudi Aramco, in a statement. So the Saudis are reacting to the refusal of Russia, in the case of a throttling of production to join (read here: How Corona and the oil price war, the stock market panic triggered). (aru)

Created: 11.03.2020, 22:03 PM