Fujairah pipeline UAE to Oman
At least seven major pipeline projects are under construction, in the planning stage or being considered as countries seek to bypass the Strait of Hormuz.

At least seven major pipeline projects are under construction, in the planning stage or being considered as countries seek to bypass the Strait of Hormuz, a new report detailed.

Citing sources familiar with the planning, the Associated Press noted that countries and producers in the region have seen the war as a wake-up call to reduce their reliance on the waterway.

Some routes will make the transporting of energy more expensive, but producers realized they can no longer depend on the Hormuz Strait for most of their exports.

Last Friday, Iraq and Syria signed an agreement to rebuild a long-dormant oil pipeline that would give Baghdad a critical export route.

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The proposed project would restore the pipeline connecting the oil-rich city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq with Syria's Mediterranean coast. The route has a nameplate capacity of about 700,000 barrels per day, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration figures. The pipeline has been out of service since it was damaged during the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.

Iraq is OPEC's second-largest oil producer, but most of its crude exports currently move through terminals near the southern city of Basra. Tankers departing those facilities must pass through the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz before reaching global markets.

Elsewhere, the United Arab Emirates is building another pipeline to the Port of Fujairah on the Gulf of Oman, which could double the country's capacity to export oil without entering the waterway.

Saudi Arabia is also considering expanding its East-West pipeline by up to 2 million barrels per day, Reuters noted. The system carries crude from Saudi Arabia's eastern production centers to the Red Sea port of Yanbu, allowing some exports to bypass Hormuz entirely.

Still, analysts caution that new pipelines would reduce the region's reliance on Hormuz without eliminating the broader security threat."The problem isn't the waterway," Bob McNally, founder of energy consulting firm Rapidan Energy, told CNBC's "Power Lunch." "It's that Iran can use weapons to attack loading facilities, pumping stations, the end stations, these terminals, and the storage units of these pipelines."

In fact, oil prices soared on Thursday after Iran's Houthi allies struck two vessels carrying Saudi oil in the Red Sea. Brent crude, the international benchmark, topped $100 per barrel again.

Reuters detailed on Wednesday that seven vessels heading to Asia had already reversed course since the announcement earlier this week. The group, which operates in Yemen, said on Monday that the decision is based on the "equation of 'an eye for an eye'" and will "respond to all escalation with all escalation, thus solidifying this equation."

It went on to threaten Riyadh further, saying it is ready "for all options, and any foolish act committed by the reckless Saudi enemy through all escalation will be met with a comprehensive and decisive escalation by Allah's will and power."