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Iran, Iraq, Syria sign $10B gas pipeline deal

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Iran, Iraq, and Syria have signed a deal for the construction of the Middle East’s largest gas pipeline, which would carry gas from Iran’s South Pars gas field to Europe via Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon and beneath the Mediterranean Sea. Construction should take 3–5 years once funding is secured, Ouji said.

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US EIA reminder: Strait of Hormuz world’s most important oil chokepoint; almost 20% of oil traded worldwide

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million-bbl/d Tapline to Lebanon. Use of the alternate routes would increase the cost of transportation. Other alternate routes could include the deactivated 1.65-million million bbl/d Iraqi Pipeline across Saudi Arabia (IPSA), and the deactivated 0.5

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Opinion: Saudi Oil Strategy: Brilliant Or Suicide?

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Each producer, therefore, is incentivized to undercut other producers directly (price per barrel) or indirectly (absorbing shipping cost or delivery risk) to win sales in Asia (or displace incumbent suppliers in other major markets). National oil producers can and are shifting the cost of the lowered prices to other sectors of the economy.