Saudi Arabia has completed the establishment of the 3.4mn barrel Yanbu Distribution Center for Petroleum Products, says the Ministry of Energy. In an announcement this month, the ministry says that the North Jeddah Distribution Center's storage capacity has also been expanded by 1mn barrels, and two 348km pipelines with capacity to handle 384,000 b/d of products linking the two centers have been constructed. The ministry says that this new connection between Yanbu’s three refineries with combined capacity of 1.08mn b/d and demand centers in the region will help strengthen security of supply, especially during the Hajj season.