Saudi East-West Pipeline Oil Flow Reaches About 3.5 Million Barrels Per Day

The East-West line matters less as a volume story than as optionality: it is the one Saudi export route that does not pass through Hormuz, so its throughput is effectively a measure of how much chokepoint risk Riyadh can sidestep. At roughly 3.5 million barrels per day, that bypass capacity is meaningful but still a fraction of the kingdom's total exports, which is why Hormuz remains the dominant variable for anyone tracking Gulf supply risk. Whether this throughput holds, and how much of it reflects a deliberate shift toward Red Sea loadings, is the open question.