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Saudi Aramco

The state oil company that operates the East–West pipeline system to Yanbu — the largest of the partial alternatives to the Strait of Hormuz, and a capacity figure rather than a demonstrated sustained rate.

Active State-owned Announcements only

Assessed as of
2026-08
Last reviewed
2026-10-03

AssessmentModerate confidence

No financials and no forecasts. A record carries what a published source states about an organisation, its published facilities and its dated claims, with each claim kept apart by kind. Nothing here is a view on any company.

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Locator — land outline from Natural Earth 110m (public domain); 5 places this record names, at the coordinates the module already publishes. No routes, boundaries, control or activity are drawn.

What this organisation is

Saudi Aramco operates the kingdom's production, the Abqaiq processing complex, the Ras Tanura terminal on the Gulf and the East–West (Petroline) system that carries crude across the peninsula to Yanbu on the Red Sea. The Petroline carries a roughly 7 million b/d emergency ceiling established in 2019 — never a demonstrated sustained rate — and Aramco announced a ramp to full capacity on 10–11 March 2026. Wartime handling at Yanbu is estimated commercially at about 3 million b/d, of which roughly 2 million goes to Aramco's own Red Sea refineries before export crude can load, and an Iranian drone strike in April 2026 temporarily disabled about 700,000 b/d of it. Every alternative to Hormuz combined is estimated at 3.5 to 5.5 million b/d against a normal strait volume of about 20 million: a capacity comparison, not a measurement of what moved.

The organisation whose system is the module's central bypass number — and the reason that number is a ceiling, not a flow.

Confidence: Moderate As of 2026-08Reviewed 2026-10-03

Official name: Saudi Arabian Oil Company

Published facilities

Each is a marker the module already publishes; the relationship is this record’s own claim, with its own grade and source.

Dated claims — announced against delivered

Every claim on this record is an announcement or a target. Nothing here is recorded as commissioned or delivered.

Systems it belongs to

SystemEnergy system

Supply systems it runs on

LogisticsSaudi east–west crude transitLogisticsHormuz-dependent crude and products export system

Commodities and outputs

Crude oil and refined products

Owners, controllers and arrangements

ProfileSaudi Arabia

Watch questions bearing on it

What remains unknown

  • No published sustained throughput for the East–West system under wartime conditions was read; the module carries the ceiling and the commercial estimate of Yanbu handling, labelled as such.
Sensitivity: public-contextual Confidence: Moderate Sources: IEA electricity and energy-security analysis · Congressional Research Service — Iran, the Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz · Public market and insurance data Methodology Corrections

Assessed as of — 2026-08 Last reviewed — 2026-10-03