VOL. XLVI

No 22

2-June-2003

SAUDI ARABIA

Saudi Aramco Plans Output Expansion At Juaymah NGL Plant

Saudi Aramco is planning to expand the output capacity of the Juaymah natural gas liquids (NGL) fractionation plant by 215,000 b/d of ethane and propane to reach 920,000 b/d with the installation of a new NGL train, according to Nasir al-Nafisi, a senior company official, quoted by the Saudi daily al-Watan on 7 May. The Juaymah plant was commissioned in 1980. In 1996, Japans JGC won a contract to...