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East-West (Petroline) pipeline, Saudi Arabia
Yanbu, Saudi Arabia24.50°N 40.00°E
computed criticality28/100
reading
≈5 Mb/d capacity, from the Gulf to Yanbu (Red Sea)
2024Fault line
The only partial overland bypass of the Strait of Hormuz: it shifts a fraction of Gulf crude to the Red Sea, but its capacity stays well below Hormuz's ≈20 Mb/d, and its Yanbu outlet falls back under the threat of Bab-el-Mandeb.
Actors
Saudi Aramco
Sources