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Iran’s Disappearing Oil Is Becoming Everyone’s Problem
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Iran’s Disappearing Oil Is Becoming Everyone’s Problem

Iranian oil is disappearing from the market just as its biggest buyer returns for more. China’s recovering crude demand is colliding with the loss of a supplier that sustained its independent refiners through the crisis, forcing them to compete for increasingly expensive alternatives. The consequences reach beyond China: every replacement barrel tightens supplies for other buyers, while Tehran faces a growing incentive to disrupt the Strait of Hormuz, which is now carrying an unexpectedly strong 13 million barrels a day (just 5 million below…

Helena Marsh

Iran’s bottleneck is Hormuz, not the buyer

Iran’s bottleneck is Hormuz, not the buyer

The Iranian crude that reached Asia is being taken. The crude that has not reached it is standing at the strait and behind it, and there is nearly twice as much of that. AXSMarine · Data to 15 August 2026 · All volumes million barrels Iranian crude sitting in Asian waters peaked at 44.4 million ...

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