Iran - Israel/US War: Israel-US declare war on Iran, Iran responds
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Oscar
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So I think we're getting confused by technical vs financial and so on.
On spare capacity, it’s more of a bandwidth issue than a hard zero. The East-West pipeline is spec’d for about 5 million bpd and can surge to 7 million. Since they recently pushed around 3.8 to 4 million bpd out of the Red Sea port of Yanbu, there is definitely some headroom. The real issue is that Hormuz handles roughly 20 million bpd.
Also, a pipeline doesn’t just brick itself because you introduce a different API gravity. You do have to manage complex blending, adjust pump station pressure, and handle batch contamination, but it’s an engineering and logistics workflow, not a law of physics.
As for it being a point to point system that can't be side-loaded, that is just how it was architected for Saudi’s internal supply chain. You absolutely can build cross border feeder lines, metering, and injection nodes. The real barrier is that doing so requires a massive, multibillion$ infrastructure sprint and years of political alignment.
So yes, the Saudi system can’t bail out the entire Gulf tomorrow, but it’s because of massive hardware and scale limitations that cannot be solved in a short timeframe, not because the pipes are magically allergic to foreign oil.
Shags101
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Any info on the last wave whenever there’s a very delay usually means impact @Immortals @Falcon29 @Persian Gulf
awais_487
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Shags101
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From what I have read overly priced toys that don’t work how they want them to work
Hamartia Antidote
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yes, it's Gaza
File:Damage in Gaza Strip during the October 2023 - 03.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
Gaza building collapses after airstrike
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Not sure what you are referring to, but if this is a serious question, then a 50 MT Tsar Bomba will actually create a crater 102 Meters deep, which would be pretty much a waste of the most powerful nuke at expense of huge destruction around it laterally/horizontally, just to get a 100 meter crater (as a best case scenario on softest of surfaces). For standard soil, the Formula is:
Crater Depth = 4 X {Kt Yeild} ^ 0.3, which comes to 102 Meters for 50,000 KT weapon.
Again, this is standard soil, we are not yet talking about reinforced concrete structures
The shockwaves might damage the structures right underneath it, but won't destroy the missile complexes completely.
Now if a bunch of bunker busters first penetrated deep enough where a nuke can be dropped, then that's a different story. A GBU-57 MOP penetrates anywhere from 30 to 60 meters, so 2 of them would do better than tsar bomba when it comes to creating craters .. and 4 to 5 might reach in, but they would have to be dropped very very, very precisely on on top of one another. Until now US and israel have been unable to do so and looks like they have given up already.
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