Every Chokepoint That Isn't Hormuz
For six months the entire conversation about oil logistics has been about one strait, and you can hardly blame anyone for that. Hormuz has been effectively closed since late February, when the war between Iran and the U.S.
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Key Facts
- Fact 1: and Israel started, and the EIA reckons only 4.9 million barrels a day of crude and liquids made it through in the second quarter.
- Fact 2: In the last quarter of 2025 that number was 21.6 million.
- Fact 3: But 16.7 million barrels a day don't vanish off the map…They get rerouted, and rerouting oil means shoving it through some other narrow place that was already busy.
- Fact 4: Brent was around $91.62 on Wednesday and WTI at $85.56, and a fair slice of that is just the cost of the detour.
For six months the entire conversation about oil logistics has been about one strait, and you can hardly blame anyone for that. Hormuz has been effectively closed since late February, when the war between Iran and the U.S.
and Israel started, and the EIA reckons only 4.9 million barrels a day of crude and liquids made it through in the second quarter. In the last quarter of 2025 that number was 21.6 million. Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said in June that management of the strait “will never return to the way it was before the war,” which is about as clear as Tehran has been on anything lately.
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Original source: OilPrice.com
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