Saudi Aramco recently joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Energy Initiative (MITEI) as a sustaining member. The five-year alliance will support MITEI's research and development of new energy technologies and improve processing techniques for cleaner fuels. Isam A. Al-Bayat, Saudi Aramco's vice president of Engineering Services, and Rafael Reif, MIT provost, signed a letter of acknowledgement at MIT's offices in Cambridge, Mass. to formalize the relationship, according to a report carried by Saudi Aramco"s web-site. --MORE