Saudi Proposal for a 400km [Pipeline] — to link Gwadar with Muscat!

[Umair Nawaz]

Sounds weird to be honest,,,and if i do buy this, how will we ensure security of Gwadar since Oman is a well known India base....Heck even their Navy has a listening post there too.

 

[Clutch]

The distance is 400 km but people are getting it wrong. They are talking about undersea oil pipeline and not a tunnel or bridge for toyota corollas and bedford trucks..

I think you are correct.

 

[Turingsage]

Road Tunnel costs on land are about a $1 billion per KM. An underwater tunnel would cost many times more. lets say twice. Then this tunnel would cost $800 billion or near to a trillion $'s.
Thats more than 3 times Pakistans GDP

 

[Clutch]

Longest tunnel in the world

The Seikan Tunnel (青函トンネル Seikan Tonneru) or 青函隧道 Seikan Zuidō, is a 53.85 km (33.46 mi) dual gauge railway tunnel in Japan, with a 23.3 km (14.5 mi) long portion under the seabed. The track level is about 100 m (330 ft) below the seabed and 240 m (790 ft) below sea level.[1] It extends beneath the Tsugaru Strait — connecting Aomori Prefectureon the main Japanese island of Honshu with the northern island of Hokkaido — as part of the standard gauge Hokkaido Shinkansen and the narrow gauge Kaikyō Line portion of the Hokkaido Railway Company (JR Hokkaido)'s Tsugaru-Kaikyō Line. The name Seikan comes from combining the on'yomireadings of the first characters of Aomori (青森), the nearest major city on the Honshu side of the strait, and Hakodate (函館), the nearest major city on the Hokkaido side.

Seikan Tunnel

Map of the Seikan Tunnel

Longest Bridge in the world

The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway is the world's longest continuous bridge over water.
Credit: Gary Fowler/Shutterstock
The world's longest bridge is the Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge in China, part of the Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway. The bridge, which opened in June 2011, spans 102.4 miles (165 kilometers). Another part of that train line, the 70.8-mile (114-km) long Langfang–Qingxian viaduct, is the second longest bridge in the world.

Road Tunnel costs on land are about a $1 billion per KM. An underwater tunnel would cost many times more. lets say twice. Then this tunnel would cost $800 billion or near to a trillion $'s.
Thats more than 3 times Pakistans GDP

It's a pipeline... Stupid Pakistani reporters

 

[war&peace]

I think you are correct.

A 400 km bridge or tunnel is not possible or the cost will be prohibitively high at least in the next 50 years and there is not a single reason for doing that.

However oil and gas pipelines make a lot of economic sense and longer oil and gas pipelines exist. The project is being developed to provide oil to Pakistan and mainly to China which is a huge market so loading, and unloading oil tankers, and transporting through tankers will be more expensive and slow than building a pipeline in parallel to the development of the oil city with refineries and storages. In 3-5 years both can be completed.

 

[enquencher]

Pipeline form saudia....bye bye iran pakistan frendship plans.
Above that with every saudi investments come strings attached

 

[Kabira]

Road Tunnel costs on land are about a $1 billion per KM. An underwater tunnel would cost many times more. lets say twice. Then this tunnel would cost $800 billion or near to a trillion $'s.
Thats more than 3 times Pakistans GDP

That sound like 22th century project.

 

[Maxpane]

Lambi lambi chorty hain

 

[war&peace]

Pipeline form saudia....bye bye iran pakistan frendship plans.
Above that with every saudi investments come strings attached

from Iran, we get gas pipeline.

Sounds weird to be honest,,,and if i do buy this, how will we ensure security of Gwadar since Oman is a well known India base....Heck even their Navy has a listening post there too.

Oil pipelines pass through many different regions and countries.

 

[Turingsage]

Oil industry does NOT build OIL pipelines over long distances as leakage from such a pipeline would put all other oil spills as spilling a drop of milk.

The cost to BP of cleaning up the Horizon leak was $62 billion.

China to construct world's longest underwater oil pipeline
ANI
4/6/2005

Beijing: China has started laying a 2.3 kilometer-long oil pipeline beneath the Yangtze River, which will be the world's longest under a river. The planned oil pipeline will travel beneath the Yangtze River in Jiujiang, east China's Jiangxi Province, reports The News. The pipeline section will be the world's longest underneath a river and it will travel about 60 meters below the riverbed.

http://www.asianresearch.org/articles/2577.html

That is old news. Uganda and Tanzania have a much longer oil pipeline BUT it transports a oily wax and the whole pipeline has to be heated to keep it fluid. Any leakage would seal itself

 

[Crystal-Clear]

seeing is believing .

 

[enquencher]

from Iran, we get gas pipeline.


Oil pipelines pass through many different regions and countries.

Good for you..but saudis n trumph will not allow

 

[Mrc]

Must b done immediately

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

We recently had a island formed outside of Gawadar after brief earth quake
There might be more seismic activity or volcanic activity if we see that new island just appeared out of no where

 

[Sugarcane]

Didn't understand logic/reason for building tunnel/pipeline with Muscat? How much oil we import from Oman? Is there already any pipeline from KSA to Muscat?