Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LII

No 9

2-Mar-2009

SAUDI ARABIA

Saudi Aramco Acquires Final Strategic Storage Site

State-owned Saudi Aramco announced on 25 February that it had taken over running the al-Qasim Strategic Storage site, the last of five huge underground product storage facilities in the Kingdoms Saudi Strategic Storage Project (SSSP). Over the past few years Saudi Aramco has taken over the other four sites in secret locations near Madina, Riyadh, Jiddan and Abha in the south west ...