What the deal does establish is that global infrastructure capital is willing to price Gulf chokepoint assets as war-proof, tariff-backed yield instruments at the exact moment the chokepoint itself has never looked riskier. The question now is whether the consortium’s return assumptions can survive a prolonged disruption that forces Kuwait to rely on bypass routes still under construction—and whether the $16 billion price tag resets the benchmark for pipeline stake sales across the region.
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