UAE to construct second pipeline to double exports without using Strait of Hormuz

The UAE currently relies on a single pipeline to surpass the strait — the Habshan-Fujairah pipeline — which was completed in 2012 and can transport up to 1.8 million barrels per day. The 235-mile-long pipeline transports oil and gas from the oil and gas-rich western regions, through the desert, to the port of Fujairah on the Gulf of Oman.

The new pipeline, if ADNOC’s estimates are correct, would allow the UAE to export its current full capacity by land — the country produces 3.2 to 3.6 million barrels per day under the former OPEC quota, an organization that it left at the beginning of the month. Even at an extended capacity, however, the new pipeline, allowing it to transport roughly 3.2 million barrels per day around the Strait of Hormuz, would drastically decrease its reliance on the strait.

Earlier this week, ADNOC CEO Sultan bin Ahmed Jaber bashed Iran over the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, demanding its reopening without conditions or delay.

“The world is already 1 billion barrels short, because of the closure of Hormuz. 1 billion barrels. That is the arithmetic of extortion. Every day the Strait is held hostage, the costs go up … for families, farms, factories and economies around the world,” he said in a post on X.