Repairs to Saudi Arabia's East-West oil pipeline will take far longer than a month due to a lack of spare parts, with the pumping infrastructure catastrophically damaged and at least 8 locations on the pipe hit, per initial reports citing sources inside Saudi Arabia.
Bessent: "Ukraine has decided that they want to blow up Russian energy assets and refined products, so that is creating upward price pressure on a global basis"
Valero Energy Corp's 385,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Port Arthur, Texas, refinery was hit by a partial power outage on Tuesday night following the passage of Tropical Storm Edouard, people familiar with plant operations said.
Long lines formed at gas stations in Bandar Abbas on Saturday, May 16, amid what a citizen described as a crisis in access to gasoline, a video sent to Iran International shows.
Senior Trump advisers have pressed the UAE to take a larger role in the conflict with Iran, with proposals that include capturing Lavan Island. - Telegraph
Americans are told that they must absorb rocketing costs of war of choice on Iran.
Put aside gas price hike and stock market bubble. Real pain begins when U.S. debt and mortgage rates start to jump. Auto loan delinquencies are already at 30+-year high.
This was all avoidable.
Iran, within the framework of its national sovereignty and the guarantee of international trade security, has prepared a professional mechanism to manage traffic in the Strait of Hormuz along a designated route, which will be unveiled soon.
In this process, only commercial vessels and parties cooperating with Iran will benefit from it.
The necessary fees will be collected for the specialized services provided under this mechanism.
This route will remain closed to the operators of the so‑called “freedom project.”
Enbridge "definitely would consider" backing a new oil pipeline to Canada’s west coast, its CEO said, giving an early vote of confidence hours after Mark Carney signed an energy deal with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith - Bloomberg