Ras Gharib

Ras Gharib (Egyptian Arabic: راس غارب Rās Ġāreb pronounced [ɾɑːs ˈɣæːɾeb]) is a municipality in the Red Sea Governorate, Egypt, situated on the African side of the Gulf of Suez. It is the second-largest city in the governorate after Hurghada, and one of the leading centers of petroleum production in Egypt, having housed the main operations for first the Anglo-Egyptian Oil Company (a branch of Royal Dutch Shell) and then the Egyptian national petroleum company. For a time it was the capital of the Red Sea Governorate.