How Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline is easing the Hormuz chokehold on global oil markets

LONDON: It was created four decades ago in the shadow of an earlier regional conflict that threatened the flow of oil and gas through the Strait of Hormuz. Now, Saudi Arabia’s Petroline is back in the headlines and easing pressure on world energy markets once again. Saudi Arabia’s East-West Pipeline consists of twin pipes and a series of pumping stations that carry oil more than 1,200 km across often challenging terrain, connecting the Abqaiq oil field in the Eastern Province to the port of Yanbu on the Red Sea.

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