Posted AT 9:59 PM EST on 12/11/07
As in oil sands, workers come from away
RABIGH, SAUDI ARABIA — It's 35 C and humid on the shore of the Rea Sea north of Jeddah as a sprawling industrial facility and construction cranes emerge through the bright haze in the near distance.
For Saudi Arabia, a crude oil producer and refiner, the site is a first step into a future of doing more with the black gold that lies in vast quantities beneath the desert kingdom.
A $10-billion (U.S.
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