New AB4 Pipeline

A 118 km long 30-inch pipeline, connecting the Kingdom of Bahrain with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. with a maximum nameplate capacity of 400,000 bpd, and a normal operating capacity of 350,000 bpd was completed in 2018. This has replaced the existing 235,000 bpd pipeline built in 1945 and runs partly onshore and offshore. The New AB4 Pipeline links the Sitra Refinery to Saudi Aramco’s plant at Abqaiq, eastern Saudi Arabia. Abqaiq Plant is Saudi Aramco’s largest oil processing facility and the largest crude oil stabilisation plant in the world. The facilities receive sour crude oil from gas-oil separation plants, process it into sweet crude oil and then transport it. Fibre optic cable is also laid alongside the pipeline for data communication purposes.