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re: ME will bypass the Strait
Posted on 7/13/26 at 10:38 am to SlowFlowPro
Posted on 7/13/26 at 10:38 am to SlowFlowPro
They got plenty of Filipino welders looking for work in Dubai.Could have that shite built in 90 days.
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Posted on 7/13/26 at 10:38 am to BCreed1
Trans-Alaskan Pipeline was 800 miles built in a much more unforgiving environment....
it transported 2m barrels a day at its peak
it transported 2m barrels a day at its peak
Posted on 7/13/26 at 10:38 am to BCreed1
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They will. In fact, they did. Now their efforts to do that has been neutered.
If that’s the case how are the still attacking ships in the strait and bases and infrastructure all over the region. Their drone and missile capabilities have certainly been degraded but they haven’t been “neutered.”
Besides, you don’t need high tech shite to blow up a pipeline. Couple of Houthis or Hezbollah dudes could just put some explosives on the pipeline and blow it up.
Posted on 7/13/26 at 10:40 am to BCreed1
We could ship them some Messicans to build it. We get rid of some illegals and the ME gets some cheap and effective labor....Win-win!
Posted on 7/13/26 at 10:42 am to B747Tiger
Saudi Arabia: Its existing East–West Pipeline carries crude across the country to Yanbu on the Red Sea. Its maximum capacity is approximately 7 million barrels per day, although export capacity is closer to 5 million after supplying western refineries. Saudi Arabia is considering adding another 1–2 million barrels per day and has discussed providing access for Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar.
United Arab Emirates: The Habshan–Fujairah pipeline already moves approximately 1.5–1.8 million barrels per day to Fujairah, outside Hormuz. ADNOC says a second pipeline is about halfway completed and is intended to roughly double UAE bypass capacity by 2027.
Iraq: Northern exports can travel through Turkey to the Mediterranean, but volumes remain limited. Proposed pipelines from Basra to Jordan’s Red Sea coast or Oman’s Duqm port would bypass Hormuz, but the Jordan project remains stalled and the Oman route is still conceptual.
Iraq has offically requested to move theirs through these.
From today:
July 13 (Reuters) - DP World is planning to build a ?new port and a ?container terminal on the United Arab Emirates' east ?coast in a ?move that would reduce Dubai's ?dependence on its ?flagship Jebel Ali hub and ?bypass the Strait of Hormuz, the Financial Times reported ?on Monday.
The Dubai-based port ?operator is in talks to ?develop ?a brand new multipurpose port in the coastal area of Fujairah and ?a ?new ?terminal at the existing harbour in ?the emirate, the newspaper ?added, ?citing people familiar with the matter.
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United Arab Emirates: The Habshan–Fujairah pipeline already moves approximately 1.5–1.8 million barrels per day to Fujairah, outside Hormuz. ADNOC says a second pipeline is about halfway completed and is intended to roughly double UAE bypass capacity by 2027.
Iraq: Northern exports can travel through Turkey to the Mediterranean, but volumes remain limited. Proposed pipelines from Basra to Jordan’s Red Sea coast or Oman’s Duqm port would bypass Hormuz, but the Jordan project remains stalled and the Oman route is still conceptual.
Iraq has offically requested to move theirs through these.
From today:
July 13 (Reuters) - DP World is planning to build a ?new port and a ?container terminal on the United Arab Emirates' east ?coast in a ?move that would reduce Dubai's ?dependence on its ?flagship Jebel Ali hub and ?bypass the Strait of Hormuz, the Financial Times reported ?on Monday.
The Dubai-based port ?operator is in talks to ?develop ?a brand new multipurpose port in the coastal area of Fujairah and ?a ?new ?terminal at the existing harbour in ?the emirate, the newspaper ?added, ?citing people familiar with the matter.
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Posted on 7/13/26 at 10:44 am to SlowFlowPro
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China and the US propped up the world during the Iranian closure of the SOH and, even then, supplies were in the danger zone internationally.
Clearly the world doesnt care as nobody other than the US is doing anything of substance to secure the strait
Posted on 7/13/26 at 10:44 am to SlowFlowPro
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How is non-Iranian traffic doing today through the SOH?
heck if I know. But I’m sure we and the world will be told to “Remain calm. All is well” when it probably isn’t right now. Or won’t be in the future with new strikes happening. 
Posted on 7/13/26 at 10:44 am to SlowFlowPro
Double post. My apologies.
This post was edited on 7/13/26 at 10:46 am
Posted on 7/13/26 at 10:49 am to B747Tiger
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If that’s the case how are the still attacking ships in the strait and bases and infrastructure all over the region. Their drone and missile capabilities have certainly been degraded but they haven’t been “neutered.”
We tested systems in The Ukraine. It's called the Sting. The US is bringing that anti-drone system to the Middle East that has been tested in Ukraine.
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Couple of Houthis or Hezbollah dudes could just put some explosives on the pipeline and blow it up.
And? You don't think we have had to deal with sabotage over the past 3 centuries?
Posted on 7/13/26 at 10:49 am to Cosmo
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Clearly the world doesnt care as nobody other than the US is doing anything of substance to secure the strait
If the US can't stop the Iranian strategy, what is anyone else going to do?
This isn't about raw force, also. Trump even tried to create a US-based reinsurance program to attack the real issue and it wasn't financially efficient enough.
Posted on 7/13/26 at 10:53 am to B747Tiger
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Why wouldn’t the Iranians just target the pipeline?
They can, but that's nowhere near the leverage that controling the straits is. With pipelines Lloyds isn't going to pull anybody's insurance because the mullahs started threatening to shoot a tanker and while they can threaten all they like, that oil will continue to flow through those pipelines until they actually get hit. And it's a quick fix to get it going again.
It's going to make all the noise and bluster they live on just noise. The rest of the world will move on while they stay there wallowing in their own feces.
Posted on 7/13/26 at 10:54 am to BCreed1
One pipeline is going to be complete before 2027.
Posted on 7/13/26 at 10:57 am to BCreed1
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We tested systems in The Ukraine. It's called the Sting. The US is bringing that anti-drone system to the Middle East that has been tested in Ukraine.
It’s pretty cool that YouTube has turned so many of yall into military experts.
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And? You don't think we have had to deal with sabotage over the past 3 centuries?
If pipelines were a more efficient, safer and cheaper way to move the oil out of the ME it would have been done 50 years ago.
Posted on 7/13/26 at 10:58 am to cusoonkpd
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It took 10 years to build the Suez Canal
Your first thought is building a canal?
The ME doesn’t export cars.
Posted on 7/13/26 at 10:59 am to Captain Rumbeard
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It's going to make all the noise and bluster they live on just noise. The rest of the world will move on while they stay there wallowing in their own feces.
If this were so simple and easy why haven’t we already done it?
Posted on 7/13/26 at 10:59 am to ragincajun03
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That said, building a 500 mile pipeline, while seems like a good plan for backups and such, is a hell of a lengthy undertaking from when you can start trenching, to stringing pipe, to commissioning. That's not going to resolve the current issues any time soon.
In WW2, the US built a 24" pipeline that spanned 1254 miles in just under a year.
It's still in use.
Building one 1/3 that length shouldn't that as long I'd think.
Posted on 7/13/26 at 11:05 am to Django Unchained
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President Trump mentioned building a 500 mile pipeline to replace the Straight of Hormuz.
Takes the Iranian tyrants out of the equation.
Yeah, but how long would a 500 mile pipeline take to build? Even if they're building it across relatively flat desert, 500 miles of underground pipeline is still a pretty big project.
And the pipeline construction sites would be prime targets for Iranian drone attacks until everything was completed and the pipeline safely buried underground.
Posted on 7/13/26 at 11:08 am to B747Tiger
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We tested systems in The Ukraine. It's called the Sting. The US is bringing that anti-drone system to the Middle East that has been tested in Ukraine.
It’s pretty cool that YouTube has turned so many of yall into military experts.
What a dumbass statement. This is you doing a very bad job of side stepping facts. Pretty damn pathetic.
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If pipelines were a more efficient, safer and cheaper way to move the oil out of the ME it would have been done 50 years ago.
Throughout history, man has found ways to accomplish things better and more efficient than the status quo.
BTW... What decade do you think it was when SA built their first? Do you even know why they built it?
Posted on 7/13/26 at 11:08 am to Tiger Prawn
And where would the pipeline even go? 500 miles isn’t that far. So oil from UAE to the southern coast of Oman maybe?
Posted on 7/13/26 at 11:10 am to Adam Banks
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If this were so simple and easy why haven’t we already done it?
There was no need or desire. Now the ME is tired of shite Iran is doing.
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