Hormuz Strait: Here are alternative ways around the choke point

Islamic Republic managed to the Islamic Republic, when Israel was punished by Israeli airstrikes, which began a week and a week and a week and a week ago Launch missiles in the US base in Qatar Monday.

Again, the Strait of Hormuz is a critical point of choking in global energy trade that can be blocked by Iran. Iranian MPs approved the closure of the US attack, but security officers still signed and opened the road on Monday. Some tankers to move away from the throat anyway.

According to US Energy Information Management (EIA), an average of about 20% of global oil fluids a day, or about 20% of global oil liquids and about 20% of the total global marine fluids are equivalent.

Along with oil, one-fifth of the global liquefied natural gas trade, last year’s Hormuz passed in the throat.

Given the importance of energy trade, the closure of the throat will lead to mass confuse in the markets. In a note of this month in a note, FX Research President George Saravelos German bankIran estimated that the scenario, which is the worst case for the closure of oil supply and the throat of Hormuz. This brent will increase by 56% compared to the current price of crude oil.

Any parcel can use mines, patrol ships, planes, cruise missiles and diesel submarines. Although the US Navy places a huge ship series to the region, it can take weeks or months by cleaning the throat.

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But there are alternative ways that can help reduce some effects of any closure.

For example, the state energy giant Saudi Aramko According to EIA, the Abgai-oil pre-processing center is operating a crude oil pipeline from the Oil Processing Center near the Gulf of Oil and West.

The United Arab Emirates operate in the Gulf of Oman on a pipeline that enters the Strait of Hormuz by connecting its oil fields on land oil fields to the export terminal of Fujairah.

The EIA estimates that Saudi and UAE pipelines can be used to fall by 2.6 million barrels per day from the Strait of Hormuz.

This compares Saudi Arabia to 5.5 million barrels of rough and condensate from the Strait last year.

Iran has a pipeline and export terminal in the Gulf of Oman, which can pass the Strait of Hormuz. The capacity of the pipeline is about 300,000 barrels per day, but its true use was even less. In the summer of 2024, Iran exported less than 70,000 barrels of 70,000 barrels per day via this alternative route.

In contrast, the vast majority of Iran’s oil exports, which is about 1.5 million barrels per day, passes through the Strait of Hormuz.

Many analysts, we destroy their economy in this case and trigger the potential catastrophic response from the United States

One column Foreign affairs magazine This month ago, Kenneth Poll, the former director of the Farsi Gulf will close the Fars of the Farsi Gulf, the former CIA Persian Gulf, and the National Security Council will close the Strait of Iran.

The reason for this is that Iran will quickly go from a dangerous nemesis in the eyes of most countries in the eyes of most countries, and perhaps the power to reopen China’s throat.

“And Tehran would be worried that such a careless threat for the world’s economy would convince the removal of Washington’s Iranian regime.” “This fear commanded Iranian President Donald Trump’s office in January 2020, Iranian General Gassem Soleimani.”