Strait of Hormuz

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• LNG exports through the Strait of Hormuz represent nearly 20% of all global LNG trade

• Iran announced a new prohibited zone outside the Strait of Hormuz that will cover parts of the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea.

• Dozens of South Koreans urged their government not to deploy troops to the Strait of Hormuz.

• Crude oil exports through the Strait of Hormuz will remain low through the end of the year, and pre‑war levels won't return until the second quarter of 2027.

• Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has paralysed much of the world’s economy

• Average crude transit through the Strait of Hormuz was over 14 million barrels per day in 2025

• Trump repeatedly claimed that the Strait of Hormuz was open and under U.S. control.

• About 84% of crude shipments through the Strait of Hormuz in 2024 were headed to Asian markets

• A sustained closure of the Strait of Hormuz would pull over 300 million cubic metres per day off the global market

• Ahron Bregman said Donald Trump is desperate for an exit at any price and only cares about opening the Strait of Hormuz

• The Strait of Hormuz is the sole maritime exit from the Persian Gulf to the open ocean

• Americans say they don't need the Strait of Hormuz and the oil of the Persian Gulf

• Roughly 20 million barrels of oil per day transited the Strait of Hormuz in 2025, about 20% of global seaborne oil trade

• Even if everything opened up today and traffic was flowing through the Strait of Hormuz, the repair and maintenance work required to get the systems functioning again is going to be delayed by weeks and, quite possibly, years.

• The Strait of Hormuz was open before the war.

• The amount of ships traveling through the Strait of Hormuz will remain constrained through the end of 2026, leaving an average of 5.7 million barrels of oil per day shut in.

• About 93% of Qatar's and 96% of the UAE's LNG exports transit the Strait of Hormuz

• Oil and LNG tankers are allowed to exit the Gulf via the Strait of Hormuz.

• The United States wants the Strait of Hormuz open to all ships and strongly opposes Iran charging any fee for ships entering or leaving the Persian Gulf.

• The United States' plan is to squeeze Iran economically and force it to open the Strait of Hormuz.

• Neil Atkinson said every day the strait stays shut, that assessment gets harder to argue with

• Iran and Yemen have complete control over the Strait of Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab.

• Iranian forces shut the Strait of Hormuz to all shipping

• The Strait of Hormuz has been largely closed for seven months, and Iran says it won't open it without meeting its conditions.

• The Strait of Hormuz can reopen in a day.

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Questions it figures in

• Which countries would be most exposed to a closure of the Strait of Hormuz?

Origin: first recognised while reading Iran War Updates: Oil tops $100 per barrel as U.S. fighter jets damaged in Iranian strikes on Jordan · 2026-09-11 07:43