VOL. XLV

No 35

2-September-2002

SAUDI ARABIA

Second Stage Of $3Bn Petroleum Products Storage Project Inaugurated

The second stage of a project for the strategic underground storage of petroleum products at various locations throughout the kingdom was inaugurated at a ceremony on 27 August. The new facility, at Bahra, southeast of Jiddah, occupies an area of 41 sq km. The first underground storage, at al-Kharj, near Riyadh, was opened in February 1999 (MEES, 1 March 1999), and another...