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Article: YEMEN - The Logistics.
- Article from:
- APS Review Oil Market Trends
- Article date:
- July 15, 2002
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There are three crude oil terminals in Yemen, one on the Red Sea at Ras Isa, which exports Maarib Light and Jannah crudes, and two in the south on the Gulf of Aden and Arabian Sea: at Ash Shihr for the export of Masila Blend, and Balhaf for the Shabwa Blend. Each terminal is linked by a pipeline to corresponding oilfields.
Sanaa has considered a strategic system, to be built through spur lines, to link the country's three main crude oil pipelines and the Aden refinery. This would make Sanaa more flexible and less vulnerable to problems at Bab El Mandeb, the southern entrance to the Red Sea where Eritrea in late 1995 occupied one of the strategic Hanish islands. ...