Pipeline to Salalah could work, just a bit expensive and takes a lot of time to build, and border crossings could be a diplomatic thing. But the pipeline would be an easy target for drone strikes and one as long as that is impossible to protect with anti air installations. Salalah - Oman already has a lot of harbor infrastructure (been there 4 times). But currently mostly for containers if I’m correct (last time there was 10 years ago though).
But theoretically it’s possible.
Trucks not so much, a single tanker would take thousands of trucks and there isn’t a straight and paved road through the desert. The trip would take days and loading-unloading would also take time, causing a traffic jam of oil trucks (just like the days long sewage truck traffic jam from the Burj Khalifa).
It’s not like the entire fleet of oil tankers is there. There are enough tankers to continue the journey after the oil has been transported over land while the stuck tankers can move the oil from the source to the drop-off point.
I thought Saudi Arabia was actually planning an oil pipeline to the Red Sea to avoid the strait of Hormuz a while ago. But seeing the mega projects they planned, which all have turned into failure (as expected) I don’t know what the status of the pipeline is. Boy do they now wish they did that instead of wasting money, time and resources on The Line.
Pipeline to Salalah could work, just a bit expensive and takes a lot of time to build, and border crossings could be a diplomatic thing. But the pipeline would be an easy target for drone strikes and one as long as that is impossible to protect with anti air installations. Salalah - Oman already has a lot of harbor infrastructure (been there 4 times). But currently mostly for containers if I’m correct (last time there was 10 years ago though).
But theoretically it’s possible.
Trucks not so much, a single tanker would take thousands of trucks and there isn’t a straight and paved road through the desert. The trip would take days and loading-unloading would also take time, causing a traffic jam of oil trucks (just like the days long sewage truck traffic jam from the Burj Khalifa).
And don’t forget that ships are still stuck in the gulf.
You can’t just order an oil tanker off Amazon.
It’s not like the entire fleet of oil tankers is there. There are enough tankers to continue the journey after the oil has been transported over land while the stuck tankers can move the oil from the source to the drop-off point.
I thought Saudi Arabia was actually planning an oil pipeline to the Red Sea to avoid the strait of Hormuz a while ago. But seeing the mega projects they planned, which all have turned into failure (as expected) I don’t know what the status of the pipeline is. Boy do they now wish they did that instead of wasting money, time and resources on The Line.
It took me roughly a day, after seeing the original version of it, to clue-in to the pipeline variant.
TigerAce, you’re quicker on the uptake than me.
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