Hormuz crisis hides a deeper oil threat that could outlast the war - Fox News

Hormuz crisis hides a deeper oil threat that could outlast the war - Fox News

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The 4.3 million barrel-per-day supply loss from Hormuz is acute. The deeper threat is that replacement capacity — Saudi spare production, U.S. shale response time, strategic reserve drawdowns already spent — was gutted during the decade oil traded below break-even for new projects. When the strait reopens, the industry that's supposed to refill the gap will still be running at the capital starvation levels of 2020-2024.

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