Syria’s Oil Corridor Plans Take Shape as Trump Looks Beyond Hormuz
- On September 3, 2026, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa pitched his country as an energy land bridge to the Mediterranean, backed by a Chevron-led, $5.7 billion pipeline that could move 2 million barrels daily.
- Exporters currently bypass the Strait of Hormuz using a desert highway jammed with 5,000 tanker trucks daily, hauling Iraqi oil to the Syrian port of Baniyas to circumvent the US-Iran conflict.
- Reuters reports the pipeline requires four years of construction and at least $15 billion, with the project receiving "initial support for feasibility studies from a consortium including Chevron."
- President Donald Trump recently secured US control of more than 65 billion barrels of proven oil reserves in Venezuela, aligning with the White House's broader push to ensure energy dominance.
- Syria hosts the Damascus International Fair through September 4, while Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani met Wednesday with a German delegation to discuss economic cooperation and reconstruction priorities.
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United States President Donald Trump welcomed the report of the Washington Post on Syria's growing role as an alternative corridor for energy transport and trade in the region, as freight traffic through the Strait of Hormuz was disrupted against the backdrop of the Israeli-Iranian war.
US President Donald Trump has welcomed the possibility of Syria becoming an alternative transit route to the Strait of Hormuz. "This is GREAT! Syria is offering itself as an alternative to the Strait of Hormuz," the American leader wrote on his social network Truth Social and shared a Washington Post article about Syria's intention to become a bypass route for regional energy and trade flows. The article notes that since April, trucks have been …
Syria offers itself to Washington as a route to bypass Iran and the Strait of Hormuz
Syria’s new government is pitching the country as an alternative energy corridor allowing Iraqi and potentially Gulf oil to reach the Mediterranean while bypassing the Strait of Hormuz.President Trump celebrated the proposal, with the words: “This...
Due to the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz, Iraq has begun shipping oil to the Mediterranean via Syria. With US support, a new $5.7 billion pipeline project extending from Basra to Banyas aims to transform Syria into an alternative energy corridor.
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