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Aramco commences production from revamped gas plants
26 February 2010: Saudi Aramco’s expanded Juaymah and Hawiyah gas plants have commenced production.
As per report, Aramco is focusing on meeting domestic gas demand after completing 2009 a crude expansion project to boost output capacity to 12.5 million barrels per day. Gas demand in the kingdom is growing annually by 7 per cent as oil revenues fuel economic expansion.
Aramco is boosting capacity at Juaymah by around 50 per cent to handle increased volumes of petrochemical feedstock ethane and light oils that form when gas is extracted, called natural gas liquids. The expansion at Juaymah will add 260,000 bpd of additional splitting capacity to the gas plant, taking capacity there to 815,000 bpd. The increased ethane and NGL output comes from the expansion of the Hawiyah and Khursaniyah gas plants.
Meanwhile, the plant at Hawiyah will process an additional 800 million cubic feet per day of non associated gas, raising the plant's capacity to 2.4 billion cubic feed per day. Last month, Aramco started operating the Khursaniyah gas plant which would process 1 billion cubic feet per day of gas from the 500,000 barrels per day Khursaniyah oilfield.
Source: Zawya