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Bro thinks they can just Mad Max a couple million barrels of crude through the deserts of Oman every day (lemmy.ml)

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[–] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

UAE has big money and likes megaprojects, have they started digging a channel between Ras Al-Khaimah and Zaghi? Some tidy profits if they can do it.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If these kingdoms had built a pipeline skirting the strait, I guess it would still have been susceptible to missile & drone attack, and a 500-mile long, deep-underground pipeline was out of the question.

[–] Egonallanon@feddit.uk 7 points 2 days ago

I know Saudi Arabia does have and east west pipeline that they can use to ship oil out and bypass the strait I just assume it doesnt have the capacity to match all the ships that usually take all the oil.

[–] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

A canal along that approximate path would be "only" 34km. Questionable whether that, or a 500km buried pipeline, would be easier.

[–] DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I always thought an Emirati Canal would probably make a whole lot of sense whenever Iran gets uppity (or vice versa, in this case).

Sure, it would still be susceptible to attack, but doing so would draw the UAE into war as well, and they'd have the ability to place land-based air defense along its route

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

i bet that's what they do if things return to normal