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Gulf LNG, Pipelines and Alternative Export Routes
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What this topic covers
The routes and infrastructure Gulf producers use to export oil and gas, covering pipelines, LNG export projects and terminals, bypass corridors that avoid the Strait of Hormuz, and new regional energy links to the Mediterranean and beyond.
The Hormuz crisis and repeated attacks on Saudi Arabia's East-West Pipeline have turned Gulf export geography into a security question, and producers are now planning new bypass lines.
This topic page tracks Saudi Arabia's reassessment of its alternative crude routes and its plans for a crude pipeline to Oman, Aramco's Petroline expansion and repairs after the September and 26 October attacks and its tenders for three new gas pipelines, Kuwait's study of a buried pipeline route and a Kuwait-UAE crude pipeline to terminals outside Hormuz, ADNOC's West-East pipeline to Fujairah and Ruwais LNG, QatarEnergy's LNG restart, Saudi Mediterranean exports through Egypt, the Tobruk-Alexandria pipeline, Iraq's Basra-Haditha line and the Iraq-Syria corridor, and the IMEC corridor.
Indispensable for LNG offtakers, midstream investors, European energy security planners and pipeline financiers.