Map view showing the distance between Yanbu on the Red Sea coast and Al-Jubail in the Gulf, the two strategic endpoints of Saudi Arabia’s East-West oil pipeline linking key export routes across the kingdom. (Image: Google Maps)
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (R) and Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa address a joint press conference after talks at the Chancellery in Berlin on March 30, 2026. (AFP)
The Valero logo is displayed on a tank at the Valero Wilmington Oil Refinery adjacent to the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles in the Wilmington neighborhood of Los Angeles, California on April 10, 2025. (AFP)
Kirkuk’s Saralu oil facility, where operations and the flow of crude resumed through the Kurdistan Region’s pipeline network on March 18, 2026. (Kurdistan24)
Kurdistan Region and federal Iraqi oil technicians and engineers oversee the launch of crude exports from Kirkuk’s Saralu oil facility through the Kurdistan Region’s pipeline network to the Turkish port of Ceyhan on March 18, 2026. (Kurdistan24)
