SAUDI ARABIA

Saudi Arabia Reviews Plans for East-West Pipeline Expansion

Saudi Arabia is now reviewing its plans for the expansion of the Kingdom's East-West pipeline (Petroline), MEES understands. Until recently Saudi Aramco, which is supervising the expansion project on behalf of Petromin, was envisaging a full looping of the 1,200-km., 48-inch pipeline which runs from the Abqaiq/Ghawar oilfields in the Eastern Province to Yanbu' on the Red Sea coast, thereby permitting a...