Hormuz Crisis Week Five: Saudi East-West Pipeline Now Global Oil Market Lifeline
Saudi Aramco CEO Amin Nasser told analysts on March 10 that full capacity was days away. Bloomberg confirmed the pipeline hit that mark on March 28, 2026. The route runs from the Abqaiq oil processing hub in the east across the Arabian Peninsula to the Red Sea port of Yanbu.
Aramco built it in the 1980s during the Iran-Iraq War for exactly this kind of contingency. In normal times, the pipeline carried