UAE starts up pipeline to bypass Strait of Hormuz

Fuel Fix ^ | July 15, 2012 | Associated Press

[GOPJ]

I'm in awe of their brilliance - thanks for the map. Maybe they could build in a wireless 'self destruct' button and place it in Teheran for safe-keeping...

[Iron Munro]

History shows us that one of the first acts taken by terrorists is to blow up pipelines and other transportation facilities.

Long pipelines, railroad tracks and highways are especially easy targets and hard to defend.

[Popman]

I long for the day when some tin hat dictator threatens world oil supply Americans can say “that's too bad but we don't import any oil from those hellholes, we produce all we need”

[thackney]

If you think you can keep the location of a major pipeline secret, you are mistaken. You may have a thousand or more of people working on it and it can be easily seen even after buried.

Trying for secrecy is only a waste of time and offers delusions of security that never exist. Better to deal with the threat straight on than “bury your head in the sand”.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks thackney.

Oil Pipeline Bypasses the Strait of Hormuz by Daniel Pipes, June 21, 2012

For a map of most of the Middle East pipelines... note that the Saudis have two petroleum pipelines and a methane pipeline running across to the Red Sea, and can move 6.5 million bbl a day.