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UAE Pipeline Expansion to Double Export Capacity, Bypassing Hormuz

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UAE Pipeline Expansion to Double Export Capacity, Bypassing Hormuz

🛢️ ABU DHABI — Doubling capacity suggests Abu Dhabi no longer expects a short blockade. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Yesterday's story was acceleration; today's is scale. Doubling capacity is an infrastructure commitment — not a hedge, a structural bypass. Every barrel Abu Dhabi reroutes permanently erodes Iran's Hormuz leverage. Tehran's carve-out diplomacy loses value as Gulf states rebuild independent arteries. This is a long-war bet placed in concrete.

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