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The sun's high in the sky and behind me to my left and to my right

I think to see rows and rows of

enormous oil storage facilities.

Earlier this year, the F.T's energy correspondent Tom Wilson

took a trip to Fujaira.

It's a port city in the United Arab Emirates. The city is roughly an hour's

drive east from Dubai and sits along a major shipping route in the Gulf of Oman.

The port symbol is a big blue F on a white circle and the entrance is a big sweeping

concrete blue wave. Cars queue up to get access.

Behind the barriers, you can see oil terminals,

a network of pipes, heavy goods vehicles

and other trucks moving back and forth.

Lately, business at the port has exploded.

Today has been a hive of activity this year. As commercial activity in the UAE booms, in particular flows of oil into the area of jumps.

Horsesistic suggests it's been a record year

for the number of oil vessels calling at the border for

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