Sharjah National Oil Corporation (SNOC) Chief Executive Officer Khamis Al Mazrouei told Gulf News it is discussing a roughly 100-kilometer pipeline carrying crude and refined products around the Strait of Hormuz to bolster supply resilience.
The proposed corridor would begin at Al Hamriyah port, with SNOC considering Kalba, Khor Fakkan and Fujairah as possible endpoints on the Gulf of Oman. Al Mazrouei said the company is speaking with prospective suppliers, customers and project partners.
Gulf News said the proposal is intended to make residents and businesses in Sharjah and other parts of the UAE less vulnerable to supply interruptions. Al Mazrouei linked the plan to broader resilience, saying disruptions in a region that supplies energy worldwide can affect global energy supplies.
A separate UAE route, the Habshan-to-Fujairah pipeline, already avoids the strait. The International Energy Agency puts the line’s capacity at 1.8 million barrels of crude per day, as EconoTimes previously reported in coverage of UAE oil exports.
