沙烏地原油重新經由當初興建輸油管所要避開的海峽輸出

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東西向輸油管自9月10日起關閉，沙烏地阿拉伯透過在阿曼Sohar港外海的船對船轉運，售出約六千萬桶供9月與10月裝載的原油。貨物在海灣內的Ras Tanura裝載，在美國海軍護航下以短程航段穿越海峽，並在海峽外轉運至長程船隻。Rystad Energy估計，9月前兩週經荷莫茲航線的出口超過每日兩百萬桶，比8月每日多約一百萬桶。據報9月初沙烏地原油出口總量約為每日2.1百萬桶，而1月與2月為7.5百萬桶。Sohar外海的船對船轉運並非新鮮事：衛星影像記錄了自2026年6月9日起的此類轉運，報導並描述船隻在航行期間關閉應答器。據報沙烏地阿美正尋求在數日內透過繞過受損段，恢復約一半的管線輸送能力，並在約六週內恢復全部能力；美國能源部長於9月15日表示，停運時間將以天計，一家通訊社的估計則認為修復需要三到五週。沙烏地官方尚未公布任何時間表、損害評估或輸送量數字。此紀錄上的日期，是該模式在報導中確立的日期，而非其開始的日期。

THE BYPASS ARITHMETIC INVERTED. For six months the honest answer to "what happens if Hormuz stays shut" was that Saudi crude has a pipeline to the Red Sea; since 10 September the answer has been that it does not, and the substitute is the strait itself. That is not a reopening and it must not be read as one — the commercial market that closed the strait in March has not moved, no war-risk cover is being written on terms charterers take up, and what is moving is state crude on escorted short legs with a warship alongside, which is the opposite of a market judgment about safety. Three things follow and are worth keeping apart. A bypass that can be interrupted is a thinner thing than a route, and this is what that looks like in practice. A route that depends on a foreign navy's escort is a route with a political dependency written into it, and the module has no basis for saying how long that escort holds. And a seventy per cent fall in total exports says that most of what the pipeline carried has not been rerouted at all but shut in — which is the number that matters and the one nobody publishes.

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