By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Jan. 12, 2004 -- Saudi Aramco Monday said it has completed its major natural gas and oil development project at Haradh, 280 km southwest of Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, and plans to inaugurate the facilities Jan. 18. The complex consists of a 1.5 bcfd gas processing plant, a gas-oil separation plant capable of processing 300,000 b/d of crude oil, and a 130 MMscfd associated gas-gathering facility.
In addition to the sales gas, the Haradh gas plant can deliver as much as 170,000 b/d of condensate to Saudi Aramco's Abqaiq processing facility and can produce 90 tonnes/d of sulfur for export.
Haradh is Saudi Aramco's second facility built primarily to process large amounts of nonassociated gas. The first was Hawiyah gas plant, brought on stream in 2002.
