Thiry-eight people were killed when a fire broke out in a gas pipeline near the Hawiyah gas plant in Saudi Arabia in last saturday.
The state oil and gas firm said in a statement the fire was caused by a gas leak in a pipeline around 30 km (18 miles) from the natural gas liquids plant but that the blaze was now under control.
The sources said the fire was unlikely to cause serious delays to the Hawiyah project, as it broke out some distance away in the Haradh-Othmaniya.
It was not immediately clear how many people were injured and the nationalities of the victims were unknown. Aramco is undertaking projects to boost output at a natural gas liquids recovery plant in Hawiyah.
The project will provide petrochemical feedstock to the industrial cities of Jubail and Yanbu in the kingdom, the world’s largest oil exporter.
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