VOL. XXXII

NO. 37

19-JUNE-1989

SAUDI ARABIA

Rabigh Refinery Start-Up now Scheduled for Early 1990

The 320,000 b/d joint-venture export refinery at Rabigh on the Saudi Red Seacoast, owned 50-50 by Saudi Arabia's Petromin and Petrola of Greece, is nowexpected to come on stream "no earlier than January 1990," accordingto Dr. Ghazi Habib, the head of the International Marketing Division of therecently-created Saudi Arabian Marketing and Refining Company (Samarec). Thestart-up of the refinery was...