Construction work to expand the second Shaybah – Abqaiq oil pipeline (SHBAB-2) at Saudi Arabia’s Shaybah oil field will be completed in a month, according to local media sources.
The 217 km pipeline will connect a new plant, which separates gas and oil at Shaybah, to an existing pipeline that carries crude oil to a processing facility at Abqaiq.
The existing 640 km SHBAB-1 pipeline transports crude to Abqaiq from the other three gas and oil separation plants located in Shaybah.
Saudi Aramco awarded the contract to construct the SHBAB-2 pipeline to Russian company Stroytransgaz in 2007.
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Shaybah gas and oil separation plant. Image courtesy of Saudi Aramco.