Ras Tanura, a tiny finger in the Persian Gulf, already has a 550, 000-barrel-per-day refinery, Aramco's biggest.

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Ras Tanura's site on Saudi Arabia's east coast puts Dow closer to emerging markets.

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Unlike Freeport, which must bring in some of its natural gas and liquid feedstocks by ship and railcar, Ras Tanura's chemical plants will get their daily diet of some 40, 000 barrels of oil-derived naphtha and 70 million cubic feet of natural gas by (very short) pipelines.

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