Saudi Aramco returns to Dammam the week of its $7 billion sulphur sale plan

Saudi Aramco's Boeing 737-8AL (tail N801XA) flew a short out-and-back from King Fahd International Airport on June 18, returning to Dammam after a 4-hour-48-minute flight that reached 32,025 feet. The route traced a loop across the Eastern Province, consistent with employee or cargo positioning to Aramco's sprawling network of oil-field airports and helipads.

The return to Dammam comes the same week reports confirmed Saudi Aramco invited banks to pitch for a stake in its sulphur business — Project Yellowstone — that could raise up to $7 billion, according to three sources quoted by Reuters [srnnews.com](https://srnnews.com/exclusive-aramco-seeking-tens-of-billions-of-dollars-lines-up-asset-sales-sources-say/). The oil giant is pursuing a broader strategy to raise tens of billions of dollars from infrastructure assets, including potential deals involving oil export terminals valued at up to $25 billion and a $10 billion real estate portfolio, per the same report. The sulphur deal is not expected to launch before next year.

The flight pattern mirrors Saudi Aramco's recent operational tempo: over the prior week, its fleet shuttled between Dammam, Riyadh, Abqaiq, and other company airstrips serving the Ghawar and Khurais fields. Mukamalah's fleet of Boeing 737s and Embraer 170s is the backbone of this internal logistics network, ferrying engineers and executives to remote gas and oil facilities. With Aramco targeting an 80% increase in gas production by 2030 and awarding a €900 million gas-plant contract to Saipem on June 15 [meyka.com](https://meyka.com/blog/saudi-aramco-awards-104b-gas-plant-contract-june-15-1506/), the aviation fleet is likely to stay busy.