VOL. XXXI

NO. 24

21-MARCH-1988

SAUDI ARABIA

Saudi Arabia Plans to Expand Petroline Capacity to 5mn b/d

Saudi Arabia is planning to expand the throughput capacity of its East-Westpipeline (Petroline) by some 55% to around 5mn b/d. This was confirmed to MEESrecently by authoritative Saudi sources. The pipeline, which runs from the Abqaiq/Ghawar oilfields in the Eastern Province to Yanbu' on the Red Sea, has acurrent capacity of around 3.2mn b/d. Capacity was raised to this level from theprevious...