Abu Dhabi is exporting its first cargo of oil today from a pipeline that bypasses the Strait of Hormuz, shipping the crude to a refinery in Pakistan, the head of the emirate’s International Petroleum Investment Co. said.
The oil, pumped though a new link from Abu Dhabi to the port of Fujairah, will go to Pakistan Refinery Co., Khadem Al- Qubaisi, managing director of the state-owned investment fund known as IPIC, said in Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates. IPIC owns a stake in the Pakistani plant.
The pipeline provides buyers with an alternative location from which to receive crude and will cut down on shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, Mohamed Bin Dhaen Al-Hamli, the U.A.E’s oil minister, said today at a ceremony in Fujairah to inaugurate the network. Al-Qubaisi of IPIC said the pipeline cost $4.2 billion.
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