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      "date": "2026-10-12",
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      "title": "Saudi minister set a 10 million b/d pipeline-capacity target",
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      "title": "Aramco tells shareholders Petroline reached its maximum 7 million barrels a day, the number the IEA said had never been tested",
      "summary": "In its first-quarter results Aramco said the East-West Pipeline had \"sharply ramped up\" to reach its maximum capacity of 7.0 million barrels a day during the quarter, supporting exports from Saudi Arabia's west coast, and chief executive Amin Nasser said the line had proven itself. It is the operator's own number for the figure the IEA had recorded in March 2025 as a claim whose sustainable flows had not been tested — and it arrived in a results release rather than an engineering disclosure, so it still states a capacity reached rather than a volume sustained.",
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      "date": "2026-02",
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      "title": "Two pipelines, three different numbers each: design capacity, operator claim, and what is actually flowing",
      "summary": "The UAE's Abu Dhabi Crude Oil Pipeline runs 400 km from Habshan to Fujairah with a nameplate of 1.5 million barrels a day and a reported current capacity near 1.8 million; the UAE was already using about 1.1 million of it, leaving room for perhaps 700,000 more. Saudi Arabia's Petroline is two lines from Abqaiq to Yanbu with a design capacity of 5 million barrels a day, which Aramco said in March 2025 it had raised to 7 million — a level the IEA notes has not been tested at sustainable flows. In early 2026 only about 2 million barrels a day of it was in use.",
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          "quote": "The system is composed of two lines with a total design capacity of 5 mb/d of crude oil. In March 2025, Aramco reported that it had increased capacity to 7 mb/d, but sustainable flows have not been tested at this level. As of early 2026, it is estimated that about 2 mb/d of the pipeline’s capacity is used, leaving between 3 and 5 mb/d of spare capacity, depending on operational conditions and available export capacity on the Saudi West Coast."
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