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Weather and waterEast–West pipeline, Riyadh region
You run the line the strait made vital
Seven Hundred Miles Of Pipe
You run the East–West pipeline, 07:40. Drones from Iraq have hit a pumping station; it is burning. The line carries five million barrels a day to Yanbu; Hormuz is shut. Shut it, throttle it, or isolate the station?
Barrels a day5 million
Fires burning1 fire
The lineflowing
The clockYanbu loads a tanker at noon
What keeps flowing this morning?