VOL. XLV

No 32

12-August-2002

SAUDI ARABIA

First Phase OfEast-West Gas Pipeline Project Completed

Saudi Aramco announced on 17 July that thefirst phase of a project to convert one of its east-west crude pipelines AY-1 to transport gas had been completed. The company described the operation asone of the most extensive and complex decruding andcleaning operations of its kind in the world, involving the removal of 7mnbarrels of crude oil residue and the cleaning of 1,000km of 48in pipeline over...