Some of the technology will come from Dow's biggest plant, in Freeport, Texas, an hour's drive from Al-Tunisi's Houston office.

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Among other assignments, Al-Tunisi launched Aramco's first commodity forecasts--which she broached, with trepidation, before a dozen directors, including Chairman Ali Al-Naimi and President Abdallah Jum'ah.

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"I had been in the U.S. seven years almost, " says Al-Tunisi.

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By the time she was 30, Al-Tunisi was modernizing the Abqaiq oil processing plant in part by replacing thousands of manually operated valves with electric ones.

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Al-Tunisi had to turn down a lot of projects.

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Houston was a kind of homecoming for Al-Tunisi.

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Nabilah Al-Tunisi was wrapping up an executive M.

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In the mid-1990s Al-Tunisi reached a crossroads.

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Al-Tunisi's group is also planning the water, power, logistics and safety backups for an industrial park adjacent to the plant, where manufacturers will be lured in to transform raw plastics into the likes of PVC pipe, injection-molded automotive parts, packaging and carpets.

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