I have seen maps of pipelines, but don't know if that is a figment of imagination.

In any case, the desert is hot, hot, hot during the day, and can freeze at night. Oh and soft sand, which behaves like water, so the pipeline needs deep foundations, to prevent it sinking.

This means a hyper-technical pipeline with weird expansion joints in it to expand and contract, that needs to be built by contractors with desert experience, and physical resilience to the brutal temperature and lack of water, oh wait up.

The complexity may put a damper on enthusiasm for it, and Hormuz was working with existing infrastructure, before...