VOL. XLIII

No. 28

10-July-2000

SAUDI ARABIA

Saudi Aramco Completes Eastern Province-Riyadh Gas Pipeline

Saudi Aramco has completed a pipeline to transport natural gas from the Shedgum treatment plant in the Eastern Province to Riyadh. The pipeline, the construction of which began in September 1998, will supply gas to an industrial zone to the south of Riyadh and to electrical power station No 9. The pipeline is part of a program to phase out liquids as an energy source for industry and the power...