VOL. XLV

No 36

9-September-2002

SAUDI ARABIA

Saudi AramcoReported To Have Decruded Tapline

SaudiAramco has decruded theunused Tapline pipeline (with a nameplate capacity of500,000 b/d) that runs from the northeast of the kingdom to Zarqain Jordan after a study revealed that it would be uneconomic to reopen it, accordingto the Saudi daily al-Watanon 31 August. In the 1980s, Tapline supplied around60,000 b/d of Arabian Light crude to the Zarqarefinery. But the volume had decreased significantly...