US officials say Hormuz oil flows reaching half of pre-war levels
The US Navy is escorting dozens of vessels through the Strait of Hormuz each night, carrying millions of barrels of oil, senior US officials said on Friday.
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright said vessels under US protection were carrying about seven million barrels of oil per day through the Strait of Hormuz - a substantial amount, roughly half of what was transiting the waterway before the US-Israeli war on Iran began on 28 February.
“Flows today are approaching half of the gap, and they’re rising,” Wright told the Bloomberg Energy Security Executive Briefing in Houston, Texas.
US Interior Secretary Doug Burgum also said on Friday that the US was escorting as many as 20 vessels per night out of the Strait of Hormuz.
“Some nights, more than 20 ships [are] coming out,” Burgum told CNBC on Friday, adding that "substantial amounts of oil have come out of the strait”.
: US officials say Hormuz oil flows reaching half of pre-war levels