UAE has access to the Red Sea?
Over 18 million barrels of oil per day through that waterway. There is not the ability to move 10% of that around to the Red Sea today. It would take at least 5 years to build the infrastructure to move half of it.
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Utter nonsense!
While the Emirates, Kuwait and Oman are on the Eastern side of
the Kingdom, they have access to the the Aramco pipeline system,
one of the most extensive in the world within a nation w/the 12th
largest land mass, exceeding 2.2 million square km.
Their pipe system traverses the vast Rub al-Khali (Empty Quarter)
to Asir to Najran to Qassim to Tabuk.
Access is the dual result of Treaties as well as Membership in
the Gulf Cooperation Council.
Even Bahrain an island nation (where I worked for a decade),
in the north-west of the Gulf, has access to leased port facilities in
Dammam, which allows it to store and transport oil.
Also, Saudi oil reaching its Red Sea Ports of Jazan, Jeddah and Yanbu
can be shipped down the Indian Ocean or up through Suez as Saudi
Arabia has a long term Agreement w/Egypt permitting them to ship
oil through the Canal into the Mediterranean.
It's direct and simple. The Saudi's have freedom and flexibility to
respond to their customers around the world while Iran does not!!