Saudi Arabia's growing petrochemical industries got a boost as Saudi Aramco unveiled plans to raise natural gas liquids (NGL) and ethane production for use as available feedstock through a series of new construction projects.
Called the Hawiyah NGL Recovery Program, Saudi Aramco intends to expand existing plants and add pipelines in addition to construction a new recovery facility near the Hawiyah Gas Plant atop the sprawling Ghawar Oil Reservoir in the Kingdom's Eastern Province.
According to Arab News, the new program, with completion of the project by 2007, will make available hundreds of thousands of barrels daily of additional petrochemical feedstock.
