Map of Abqaiq Region

Abqaiq (also Buqayq, Arabic: بقيق buqayq, meaning "father of the sand flies") is a small city in the interior of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia located in the desert southwest of the Dhahran-Dammam-Khobar metropolitan area. Built in the 1940s by the national oil company Saudi Aramco, Abqaiq is predominantly an industrial oil-company town with a population of approximately 1,950 in 2005. Image File history File links Saudi_dhahran_rt_abqaiq_jubail. ... Image File history File links Saudi_dhahran_rt_abqaiq_jubail. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... The East Province (French Province de lEst) occupies the southeastern portion of the Republic of Cameroon. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Dammam Corniche Dammam (Also Damman or Ad Dammām) is the capital of the Ash Sharqiyah province in Saudi Arabia. ... Khobar Corniche Khobar (also written al-Khobar or al-Khubar ; Arabic: الخبر) is a large city located in the Eastern Province of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on the Arabian/Persian Gulf. ... Saudi Aramco, the national oil company of Saudi Arabia (formerly just Aramco, standing for the Arabian American Oil Company), is the largest oil corporation in the world and the worlds largest in terms of proven crude oil reserves and production. ...

Oil processing

After the oil well products (oil, natural gas, water, sand, etc.) are processed by the GOSP's (Gas Oil Separation Plants), the sour oil (containing H2S, hydrogen sulphide) is sent by pipeline to Abqaiq. The Abqaiq site sweetens the oil, then pumps it to Ras Tanura (where it is exported), or further refined at a domestic refinery. Abqaiq also has NGL (Natural Gas Liquids) plants that extract natural gas liquids (butane, propane, hexane, etc.) from the oil. These NGL's are sweetened by Abqaiq, then sent to other sites for further separation and purification. Natural gas is commonly referred to as gas. ... Sour crude oil contains the impurities hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and carbon dioxide,or mercaptans. ... For other meaning link to H2S radar. ... Ras Tanura (more accurately Ras Tannūrah, Arabic: رأس تنورة meaning top/head/cape of the skirt) is a city in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia located on a peninsula extending into the Arabian or Persian Gulf. ... Natural gas liquids are the liquids that, combined with methane, form natural gas. ... Butane, also called n-butane, is the unbranched alkane with four carbon atoms, CH3CH2CH2CH3. ... Propane is a three-carbon alkane, normally a gas, but compressible to a liquid that is transportable in inexpensive containers. ... the 3rd ingredient in big mac ...

Community and region

The Abqaiq resident's compound (Aramco code: AB) is one of four residential compounds built by Saudi Aramco, including Dhahran (the main administrative center), Ras Tanura (the main refinery and oil port), and Udhailiyah. It is located between the smaller company outpost of Udhailiyah to the south and larger Dhahran to the north. Saudi Aramco, the national oil company of Saudi Arabia (formerly just Aramco, standing for the Arabian American Oil Company), is the largest oil corporation in the world and the worlds largest in terms of proven crude oil reserves and production. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Ras Tanura (more accurately Ras Tannūrah, Arabic: رأس تنورة meaning top/head/cape of the skirt) is a city in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia located on a peninsula extending into the Arabian or Persian Gulf. ... Udhailiyah (Arabic: العضيلية ?u ayliyyah) is a small oil company compound in the interior of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia located in the desert southwest of the Dhahran-Dammam-Khobar metropolitan area. ...

Similar to the other three, Abqaiq compound is surrounded by security fences, upper and mid level Saudi Aramco employees, contractors, and their dependents live inside. Saudi employees also maintain some of their extended families inside the camp. Built originally to house only company employees, the community today is now a multi-ethnic mosaic of Americans, Saudis, other Arab nationalities (e.g. Egyptian and Jordanian), Indians, Pakistanis, etc. - with English as the common language. The presence of religious authorities (Mutawa or "decency" committee) within the camp has made it a more rigorous islamic shuriyah environment. Abqaiq is famous for its 18 hole golf course with the oiled-sand fairways and sand "greens", now one of the last of its kind since Dhahran's own golf course was converted to grass starting 2003 leaving only 9 holes of the sand course Saudi Aramco, the national oil company of Saudi Arabia (formerly just Aramco, standing for the Arabian American Oil Company), is the largest oil corporation in the world and the worlds largest in terms of proven crude oil reserves and production. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Climate

Abqaiq's weather is 50 degrees Fahrenheit (10 degrees Celsius) on winter nights to 140 degrees Fahrenheit (60 degrees Celsius) in summer daytime. On rare occasions, Abqaiq has reached freezing temperatures during the winter. There are only a few inches of rain each year. Dust storms are a regular occurrence. Satellite photo of a Saharan dust cloud (2000) over the Eastern Atlantic Ocean. ...

Media coverage

Abqaiq was the site of a terrorist attack attempt by Al Qaeda on February 24th, 2006 to attack the oil processing facility. [1] This is a timeline of the terrorist incidents in Saudi Arabia derived from reports in the Saudi media and other sources. ... al-Qaeda or al-Qaida (, translit: ; the Law, the foundation, the base or the database) is an armed Sunni Islamist organization with the stated objective of eliminating foreign influence in Muslim countries, eradicating those they deem to be infidels, and reestablishing the califate. ...

A moderate to severe attack on Abqaiq would slow production from an average of 6.8 million barrels a day to 1 million barrels. As mentioned earlier, the chief purpose of Abqaiq is to remove hydrogen sulfide from crude oil and reduce the vapor pressure, making the crude safe to be shipped in tankers. Abqaiq's is the world's largest facility for this stabilization. [2] The barrel is the name of several units of measurement. ...

See also

• Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
• Saudi Aramco
• Dhahran
• Ras Tanura
• Udhailiyah

Eastern Province (Arabic: المنطقة الشرقية al-Mantaqa ash-Sharqiyah) is the largest province of Saudi Arabia, located in the east of the country on the coasts of the Persian Gulf, and has borders with Kuwait, Qatar, the United... Saudi Aramco, the national oil company of Saudi Arabia (formerly just Aramco, standing for the Arabian American Oil Company), is the largest oil corporation in the world and the worlds largest in terms of proven crude oil reserves and production. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Ras Tanura (more accurately Ras TannÅ«rah, Arabic: رأس تنورة meaning top/head/cape of the skirt) is a city in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia located on a peninsula extending into the Arabian or Persian Gulf. ... Udhailiyah (Arabic: العضيلية ?u ayliyyah) is a small oil company compound in the interior of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia located in the desert southwest of the Dhahran-Dammam-Khobar metropolitan area. ...

External links

• Aramco Services - Photo tour and info about Abqaiq (and other Aramco communities) under "communities" link

• Aramco-Brats.com - Abqaiq - City-specific images and documents

• Satellite Image from Terraserver.com

Saudi Arabian Cities

List of main Saudi Arabian cities

|`Afif | `Ar`ar | Abha | Abqaiq | Al Bahah | Buraidah | Ad Dammam | Dhahran | Ad Dir`iyah | Duba | Ha'il | Al Hufuf | Al Jawf | Jeddah | Jizan | Al Jubayl | King Abdullah Economic City | Khamis Mushayt | Al Kharj | Khobar | Layla | Al Majma'ah | Mecca (Makkah) | Medina | Najran | Qal'at Bishah | Al Qatif | Ras Tanura | Ra's al Khafji | Riyadh (National Capital) | Sudair | As Sulayyil | At Ta'if | Tabuk | Udaliyah | `Unayzah | Yanbu' al Bahr |

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