Yanbu, Saudi Arabia

Yanbu
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/yanbu.htm

Yanbu [also spelled Yenbo] is located in western Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea north of Jidda. Yanbu Commercial Port is located on the East coast of Red Sea approximately 460 nautical miles South of Suez Canal and 168 nautical miles North-West of Jeddah. It is a natural harbor sheltered by the mainland to the North and East and by coral reefs to the South and South-East.. ..Yanbu Industrial City occupies a linear coastal site that straddles the highway connecting Jeddah with communities to the northwest. The development area is approximately 24 Kilometers long and 7 Kilometers wide, encompassing approximately 185 square Kilometers in total. The Industrial City of Yanbu functions not only as a prominent port on the Red Sea and as an industrial city but also as a home and community for the inhabitants of the city.  [more]

Saudi Arabian Information Resource - Jubail and Yanbu
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Jubail and Yanbu constitute a unique experiment in development which has proved outstandingly successful. These are two cities which were conceived on the drawing board and were planned to provide a purpose-built and highly efficient environment for modern industrial production.  These industrial complexes, built at Jubail on the Arabian Gulf and Yanbu on the Red Sea by the Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu, are the key to the Kingdom's national industrialization plans. These two industrial cities provide the basis for the Kingdom's program to develop hydrocarbon-based and energy intensive industries. The massive investment in these industrial cities has as its major objective a reduction in the Kingdom's dependence on oil revenues by gaining access to the world's petrochemical markets. This route to industrialization exploits the Kingdom's natural advantages, in terms of cheap energy and cheap raw materials for petrochemical manufacture.

Jubail & Yanbu: The East-West Pipeline
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As part of the Kingdom's determination to optimize its energy resources, the Royal Commission for Jubail & Yanbu implemented a two stage project to conserve and then exploit the Kingdom's enormous reserves of natural gas in the eastern region. 

First, the Royal Commission established a vast network to gather and process natural gas in the industrial city of Jubail. Then it proceeded with the construction of a double pipeline, running from east to west across the Kingdom to transport oil and gas from Jubail to Yanbu in order to supply energy for the many industrial projects which Yanbu undertook and to facilitate the export of these energy products from the Red Sea coast. The pipeline which runs for 730 miles (1,170 km) was completed in 1982.

ADDITIONAL MATERIAL

Royal Commission on Jubail and Yanbu

Yanbu (Yanpet) Petrochemical Complex, Saudi Arabia 

Saudi Yanbu Petrochemical Company (Yanpet) - ExxonMobil

Industries in Yanbu

The Natural Gas Liquid terminal at ' Yanbu (Photo by Nik Wheeler/ Aramco/PADIA)

Industrial development, Yanbu, Saudi Arabia (Photo by B.H. Moody/Aramco/PADIA)

Yanbu' Refinery Test & Inspection (Aramco/PADIA)

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