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🚨 BREAKING: Saudi Arabia quietly built a 1,200-km oil pipeline from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea 45 years ago all to prepare for a worst-case scenario.
Back in the early 1980s, Saudi Arabia constructed the East-West Pipeline (Petrolane) to ensure its oil could still reach global markets even if the Strait of Hormuz was ever blocked.
⛽ The pipeline runs from the oil fields in the Eastern Province across the desert to the Red Sea port of Yanbu, bypassing one of the world’s most critical and vulnerable shipping chokepoints.
📊 Key facts:
• Length: ~1,200 km (750 miles)
• Built: Early 1980s during regional tensions
• Capacity: Up to 5 million barrels of oil per day
• Purpose: Strategic backup route if the Strait of Hormuz is closed
🌍 Why it matters:
Nearly 20% of the world’s oil supply normally passes through the Strait of Hormuz. If that route were disrupted, this pipeline allows Saudi Arabia to export massive volumes of oil without using the Gulf shipping lane.
In other words, Saudi Arabia planned decades ago for a scenario the world still worries about today.
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