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Old 05-06-2026 | 10:08 AM
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jerryleber
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Originally Posted by OpieTaylor
I mean the straight (sic) was moving 20m a day, the pipelines to bypass it are probably moving half.
The Saudi East-West pipeline system (Petroline) can transport up to 7m bpd, though in early 2026, about 2m bpd was being used, leaving some spare capacity, but the Red Sea port of Yanbu can only handle about 5m bpd. So that is an additional 3m bpd and the UAE's Abu Dhabi Crude Oil Pipeline (ADCOP) is now pumping near its max of 1.8m bpd up from its normal 1.0m bpd. So that would mean an additional 3.8m bpd or about 20% of what typically goes through the Strait of Hormuz. And if the Yanbu crude heads south it has to go by Yemen and the Houthi’s and Iran has been targeting the ADCOP Fujairah terminal.
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