https://hormuz.net/tags/oil-price/ Recent content in Oil Price on Hormuz.net Hugo en-us Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://hormuz.net/after-leaving-opec-uaes-fujairah-pipeline-could-break-the-high-price-grip/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://hormuz.net/after-leaving-opec-uaes-fujairah-pipeline-could-break-the-high-price-grip/ <p>When the United Arab Emirates announced its departure from OPEC, most commentary focused on the diplomatic rupture — the end of a decades-long alliance, the tension with Riyadh, the signal it sent about the cohesion of the Gulf producer bloc. But the more consequential story is infrastructural. The UAE already has a pipeline that changes everything.</p> <h2 id="the-habshan-fujairah-pipeline-built-for-exactly-this-moment">The Habshan-Fujairah Pipeline: Built for Exactly This Moment</h2> <p>The Abu Dhabi Crude Oil Pipeline — running 400 kilometers from the onshore Habshan oil fields to the deepwater export terminal at Fujairah on the Gulf of Oman — was completed in 2012 and was always understood as a strategic hedge against Hormuz closure. It has a nameplate capacity of approximately 1.5 million barrels per day, with expansion potential that Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has publicly targeted at 1.8 to 2 million barrels per day.</p>