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.