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Abqaiq

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Abqaiq

а Saudi Aramco gated community and oil-processing facilities located in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia

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Examples

It is a low steady sound, that medley, and one familiar to Dhahran, Abqaiq and Ras Tanura, all bases for operations of the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco) in Saudi Arabia. Source: Internet

I went to the Abqaiq 'oil patch,' worked as a foreman and in 69 was promoted to superintendent; 72 to assistant manager of Southern Area Producing, and in 73 to manager. Source: Internet

The most vulnerable point and the most spectacular target in the Saudi oil system is the Abqaiq complex—the world's largest oil-processing facility, which sits about twenty-four miles inland from the northern end of the Gulf of Bahrain. Source: Internet

It was shut in for a few weeks in 1950, when 600,000 barrels of oil a day were flowing from the Abqaiq and Qatif Fields, and the Abu Hadriya, Ghawar and Fadhili Fields had been discovered, and then it was back on line for most of the next 25 years. Source: Internet

The second Abu Hadriya well was suspended and the first shut in immediately after the bombing; Abqaiq No. 1 was shut in the following February. Source: Internet

Last year, Washington blamed Tehran for sabotage attacks on supertankers and a missile and drone attack on Saudi Arabia’s Abqaiq crude-processing plant in September — the largest single supply halt in the industry’s history. Source: Internet

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