Another important step recently was taken in Saudi Arabia's industrialization drive with the beginning of construction of Saudi Aramco's Hawiyah Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) Project, which will add hundreds of thousands of barrels of petrochemical feedstock daily to the industrial cities of Jubail on the Arabian Gulf and Yanbu' on the Red Sea. The massive construction project is a team effort of Saudi Aramco and contractors Snamprogetti, JGC, General Dynamics, Yokogawa, GE Nuevo Pignone and several in-Kingdom contractors, each of which has a piece of the petrochemical complex to complete. Ali A. Al-Ajmi, vice president of Project Management; Saad A. Turaiki, executive director of Southern Area Gas Operations (SAGO); and several members of Project Management and SAGO were on hand for the groundbreaking ceremonies and related festivities. "These facilities are vital for supporting the energy flow, both to the Kingdom and the world," Al-Ajmi told the construction team. "We're counting on you to deliver these NGL facilities on or before schedule." At the ceremony, Al-Ajmi turned the first shovelful of earth on construction of the NGL facility being constructed by JGC, according to an article written by Stephen L. Brundage and carried by Saudi Aramco web site. --MORE 1308 Local Time 1008 GMT
