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We're buying things through payment systems and those payment systems are a chokepoint.
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The narrow strait is the most important chokepoint for the world's oil supply.
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And Operation Chokepoint – while arguably well intentioned – wound up stifling enterprises in minority communities.
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It has thrust the world's most important oil chokepoint back into the global spotlight.
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Because there wasn't a single chokepoint in the value chain, opportunities flourished in all sectors.
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The House of Representatives has been the most consistent chokepoint for progressive proposals in recent years.
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It costs the tollbooth operator nothing — he or she just has a strategic chokepoint for extraction.
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Were a war between Saudi Arabia and Iran to erupt, this chokepoint could easily be closed.
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The remaining 10 percent of its shipments passing through the Red Sea chokepoint were mostly refined products.
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One-fifth of the world's supply travels through the Strait of Hormuz, an important chokepoint for international shipping.
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Blocking a chokepoint, even temporarily, can lead to substantial increases in total energy costs and world energy prices.
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That's the equivalent of about 21% of global petroleum liquids consumption — making it the world's most important oil chokepoint.
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Any threats to the free flow of oil through key chokepoint the Strait of Hormuz could dampen crude supplies.
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The episode is the latest test of nerves around the Strait of Hormuz, a major chokepoint for oil tankers.
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Rockefeller used the structure of networks — both railroads and pipelines — to seize control of the chokepoint in an industry.
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The Energy Information Administration (EIA) has previously described the Strait of Hormuz as the world's most important oil chokepoint.
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The episode is the latest friction to test nerves around the Strait of Hormuz, a major chokepoint for oil tankers.
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CHOKEPOINT Washington withdrew last year from a 2015 pact between Iran and global powers aimed at reining in Tehran's nuclear plans.
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Fujairah lies just outside the Strait of Hormuz, a key chokepoint that Iranian officials have threatened to block if America attacks.
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He writes that billionaires essentially run "important tollbooths" — meaning that everyone who tries to pass through a certain chokepoint faces extraction.
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The strait handles about a third of the world's seaborne oil traffic, making it the most important chokepoint for shipping crude.
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The U.S. State Department has lobbied against the pipeline as a potential supply chokepoint that would make Europe more vulnerable to disruptions.
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That gives China an alternative route for energy imports from the Middle East that avoids the strategic chokepoint of the Malacca Strait.
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At the Orkney Passage, this deepsea flow goes through a "chokepoint" as it heads from Antarctica's Weddell Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.
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At the Orkney Passage, deep sea currents go through a "chokepoint" as they head from Antarctica's Weddell Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.
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The U.S. said it had shot down an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz, a key chokepoint for global crude flows.
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Iran's Revolutionary Guards, designated a terrorist organisation by Washington, threatened last month to close the chokepoint if Tehran was barred from using it.
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Payday lenders are one of the targets of "Operation Chokepoint," an FBI investigation into business relationships between banks and potential law-breaking companies.
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Morgan Stanley does not expect rising tensions in the world's most important oil chokepoint to lead to a sustained jump in oil prices.
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The escalation follows attacks on oil tankers near the strategic chokepoint of the Straight of Hormuz, which the Trump administration blames on Tehran.
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Iran's Revolutionary Guards, designated a terrorist organization by Washington, threatened last month to close the chokepoint if Tehran was barred from using it.
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There is another trade/economic chokepoint U. S. foreign policy must pay attention to that is growing in importance to politically important trade.
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Iran's Revolutionary Guards, designated a terrorist organisation by Washington, threatened last month to close the Hormuz chokepoint if Tehran was barred from using it.
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Though the strait is tiny — at its narrowest point it is just 33 km (21 miles) across — it's a geopolitically and financially crucial chokepoint.
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"Everybody knows though, that's the vulnerable chokepoint, the vulnerable spot that, in this kind of political environment, could really be in play," he said.
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The US Navy plays a pivotal role safeguarding the Strait of Hormuz, the most critical chokepoint for the transit of oil in the world.
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Iran's Revolutionary Guards, designated a terrorist organisation by the United States, threatened last month to close the chokepoint if Tehran was barred from using it.
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But soon he realized that the operating system was a key on-ramp to the personal computer — a tollbooth or chokepoint for all other software.
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The Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimated that 76% of the crude oil and condensate that moved through the chokepoint went to Asian markets in 2018.
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Just over a third of all grain imports to the MENA region pass through at least one maritime chokepoint for which there is no viable alternative.
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In this borough of 27 million people, the Court Square station is a renowned chokepoint where four major train lines—the G, E, M, and 215—converge.
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Its allies in Yemen, the Houthi rebels, forced Saudi Arabia to suspend oil shipments through another critical chokepoint in the Red Sea after they attacked Saudi tankers.
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Iran's top general lashed out at President Donald Trump this week, issuing a heated threat and putting a major Red Sea oil chokepoint directly in his sights.
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Tensions in the Middle East remained high after Iran seized a number of tankers in recent weeks in the Strait of Hormuz, a major chokepoint for oil shipments.
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Iran's Revolutionary Guards, which has been designated a terrorist organisation by the United States, threatened last month to close the chokepoint if Tehran is barred from using it.
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Therefore, the inability of oil to transit a major chokepoint, even temporarily, can lead to substantial supply delays and higher shipping costs — resulting in higher world energy prices.
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Tensions in the Middle East remain high after Iran seized a number of tankers in recent weeks in the Strait of Hormuz, a major chokepoint for oil shipments.
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HOUSE PASSES BILL TO CURB OPERATION CHOKEPOINT: The House passed a bill Thursday that would make it harder for bank regulators to order banks to close certain accounts.
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They're always on and connected, often full of unpatched security vulnerabilities, and offer a convenient chokepoint for eavesdropping on all the data you pipe out to the internet.
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These included, MARAD said, oil production infrastructure, after Tehran threatened to close the vital Strait of Hormuz chokepoint through which about a fifth of oil consumed globally passes.
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The strait connects the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea and has been described by the U.S. Energy Information Administration as the "world's most important oil transit chokepoint."
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The Truman made a point of steaming across the "GIUK Gap," a waterway around Greenland, Iceland and the United Kingdom that strategists see as a crucial naval chokepoint.
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The news comes as the world's attention has refocused on the Strait of Hormuz, the critical chokepoint carrying oil produced by Gulf nations to the rest of the world.
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Photo by Tyler Bradberry Southern California has proven itself to be a modern chokepoint for pertinent hardcore, producing the genre's modern stand outs like Nails, Xibalba, and Twitching Tongues.
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The US Energy Information Administration calls the Strait of Hormuz "the world's most important oil transit chokepoint," with an estimated 20% of oil traded worldwide moving through the channel.
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Crude oil prices rose nearly 2% on Friday after a U.S. Navy ship destroyed an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz, a major chokepoint for global crude flows.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell is not taking any British-flagged tankers through the Strait of Hormuz amid heightened tensions with Iran in the vital chokepoint for oil shipments.
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Russian control of the Arctic chokepoint would make it difficult for NATO forces to bring warships and heavy equipment into the area during a future potential conflict, Soereide said.
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China is also a major importer — particularly of soyabean — but has done the most to mitigate its exposure to "chokepoint risk" by investing in port infrastructure around the world.
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They currently sit near five-month lows despite the fact that the tankers were attacked near the Strait of Hormuz, the most important chokepoint for oil transit on the planet.
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These included, MARAD said, oil production infrastructure, after Tehran threatened to close the vital Strait of Hormuz chokepoint through which about one third of the world's seaborne crude exports flow.
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The biggest black swan event in the oil market is a disruption to the most critical chokepoint in the Middle East, according to an analyst from S&P Global Platts.
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And for farmers with the geographic misfortune of owning land south of an ecologically sensitive water distribution chokepoint, it will allocate a mere 5 percent of their maximum share of water.
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LONDON, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell is not taking any British-flagged tankers through the Strait of Hormuz amid raised tensions with Iran in the vital chokepoint for oil shipments.
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"The Strait of Hormuz is the world's most important chokepoint" for oil, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), the independent statistical and analysis arm of the U.S. Department of Energy.
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Critically, Soleimani's mention of the Red Sea signaled the regime's willingness to disrupt oil shipments in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait — the world's fourth-largest oil chokepoint — via its proxies there.
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Tension has been rising in the Middle East, home to over 20% of the world's oil output, after attacks on two tankers near the Strait of Hormuz, a chokepoint for oil supplies.
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Rouhani mentioned the strait in his speech on Sunday, and Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday endorsed the president's threat to shut the chokepoint if U.S. sanctions disrupt Iran's exports.
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Today, for instance, investors are on high alert for any disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz, the Middle East chokepoint where oil leaves the Persian Gulf to reach customers around the world.
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CHOKEPOINT Iran has several options for targeting enemy shipping, including mines, coastal missile batteries, submarines, navy vessels, and a fleet of small fast and highly maneuverable boats operated by the countrys revolutionary guard.
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Suburban northern Virginia is a major chokepoint for internet traffic in part due to an accident of internet history, one that perpetuates itself because of that tendency of networks to follow other networks.
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To close down the entire strait, Iran would have to place at least 1,000 mines with submarines and surface craft along the chokepoint, security researcher Caitlin Talmadge posited in a 2009 MIT study.
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The apparent progress between the United States and Iran could ease fears of a military conflict that would sideline supplies near the Strait of Hormuz, the vital oil chokepoint in the Middle East.
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Yemen's Houthi rebels launched drone attacks on the world's largest oil processing facility in Saudi Arabia and a major oil field Saturday, sparking huge fires at a vulnerable chokepoint for global energy supplies.
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Washington released a video that it said showed Iran's Revolutionary Guards were behind Thursday's attacks on the Norwegian-owned Front Altair and the Japanese-owned Kokuka Courageous near the Strait of Hormuz shipping chokepoint.
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Rising tensions in the Middle East between Iran and the United States have raised fears of a clash near the Strait of Hormuz, the most important chokepoint for oil transit in the entire world.
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Esca managed to stealthily make his way past the first chokepoint on Temple of Anubis to sneak up on Mighty Storm's defense, but the enemy Ana's Sleep Dart stop Esca right in his tracks.
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The US Energy Information Administration calls it "the world's most important oil transit chokepoint," with 20% of oil traded worldwide moving through the waterway, which is about 30 miles wide at its narrowest point.
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In addition, the East-West Pipeline, known as Petroline, mainly transports crude from the kingdom's eastern fields to Yanbu, which lies north of Bab al-Mandeb so shipments could avoid that Red Sea shipping chokepoint.
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Oil pared earlier gains after the report was released, although prices were still trading above $22.5 a barrel after three Iranian vessels tried to block a British ship in the Strait of Hormuz oil chokepoint.
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Oil prices rose on Friday as tensions spiked again in the Middle East after the United States said it had destroyed an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz, a major chokepoint for global crude flows.
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The oil and gas company has no plans in the short term to take any BP-flagged vessels through the strait, a crucial chokepoint for the delivery of a fifth of the world's oil, Gilvary added.
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In oil markets, crude surged after the United States said its navy destroyed an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz, a major chokepoint for global crude flows, raising concerns about supply disruptions out of the region.
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But the Red Sea, with its narrow Bab el-Mandeb chokepoint in the south and the Suez Canal in the north, also is important for energy — and even more so for ordinary commerce between Europe and Asia.
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Those two countries and the US worked together closely during the Cold War to keep an eye on the Greenland-Iceland-UK Gap, a chokepoint through which submarines have to pass between the Atlantic and Arctic oceans.
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In oil markets, crude surged after the United States said its navy had destroyed an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz, a major chokepoint for global crude flows, raising concerns about supply disruptions out of the region.
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The Strait of Hormuz links the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea and is "the world's most important oil transit chokepoint," according to The US Energy Information Administration, with 20% of oil traded worldwide moving through the waterway.
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TOKYO, July 19 (Reuters) - Oil prices rose more than 1% on Friday after the U.S. Navy destroyed an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz, a major chokepoint for global crude flows, again raising tensions in the Middle East.
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Washington in June first proposed some sort of multinational effort open to all allies and partners to bolster maritime security in the Gulf after accusing Iran of attacking oil tankers around the Strait of Hormuz, a critical maritime chokepoint.
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The rest of Lithuania's frontiers are utterly friendly -- 281 miles with neighboring Baltic state Latvia and a slim 57 miles with fellow NATO member Poland, the only chokepoint through which NATO aid could pour in the event of a Russian invasion.
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CreditCreditLauren DeCicca for The New York Times KUANTAN, Malaysia — In the world's most vital maritime chokepoint, through which much of Asian trade passes, a Chinese power company is investing in a deepwater port large enough to host an aircraft carrier.
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Washington in June first proposed some sort of multinational effort open to all allies and partners to bolster maritime security in the Gulf after accusing Iran of attacking oil tankers around the Strait of Hormuz, a critical maritime chokepoint between Iran and Oman.
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European leaders have been trying to mitigate the fallout as Iran conducts a major military exercise in the Persian Gulf region, while US leaders think Iran may be demonstrating its ability to shut down a key oil transit chokepoint, the Strait of Hormuz.
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While a large proportion — 76% — of oil flowing through the chokepoint does end up in Asian countries, the US still imports more than 30 million barrels of oil a month from countries in the Middle East, Business Insider's Alex Lockie reported, citing the EIA.
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With global trade in food commodities expanding 127 per cent to 2.2bn tonnes between 2000 and 2015, and rates of growth projected to continue to rise, the dependency on the chokepoint transit routes was likely to increase for the foreseeable future, according to Chatham House.
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Joseph Votel, commander of U.S. Central Command, told the House Armed Services Committee this week he's concerned about Iran making a "chokepoint" in the Bab al-Mandab Strait between Yemen and the Horn of Africa, similar to Iran's behavior in the Strait of Hormuz.
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Rear Admiral Michael Gilday, the director of the Joint Staff, on Friday described U.S. intelligence portraying a new Iranian "campaign" that used old tactics, and stretched from Iraq to Yemen to the waters in the Strait of Hormuz, a vital maritime chokepoint for the global oil trade.
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If security and freedom of navigation for these allies are not sufficient reasons for the United States to be concerned with Iran at the chokepoint of the Bab el Mandeb Strait, consider this: Camp Lemonnier, the U.S. naval expeditionary base, sits directly opposite Yemen off Djibouti.
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At 183m long, 32m wide, the Norwegian-flagged tanker is not the biggest of the 140 ships at anchor near the Strait of Hormuz off the port of Fujairah on Sunday, but it is typical of the international flotilla that uses this geostrategic chokepoint as a maritime parking lot.
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The Orkney Passage is likely a key chokepoint in this process, which is why the researchers are hoping to learn more about the speed of its streams, the degree of turbulence down below, and how deep sea waters are responding to changes in the winds over the Southern Ocean.
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China has been pushing for preferential access to the deep sea port of Kyauk Pyu on the Bay of Bengal, an entry point for a Chinese oil and gas pipeline that gives it an alternative route for energy imports from the Middle East that avoids the Malacca Strait, a shipping chokepoint.
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There is nothing incorrect about this assessment, and it could be argued that crude futures haven't factored in as much of the threat to shipments through the Strait of Hormuz as they should, given about 20% of the world's seaborne supplies transit the chokepoint at the entrance to the Persian Gulf.
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The UK has announced its Navy will accompany British ships where possible and that it will participate in a European-led effort to provide security to shipping through the Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic chokepoint controlled by Iran through which 20% of the world's oil supply passes.
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You can check out some of the major differences in this gallery: Infernew Some of the most notable changes to Inferno are better lighting overall, better visibility on Bombsite A, a widened chokepoint at Banana (the path from terrorist spawn to Bombsite B) and no more dark room in Apartments.
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"Direct confrontation in the Gulf is a major risk to the global oil market, given that 20 percent of the world's oil travels through an Iranian-controlled chokepoint at the Strait of Hormuz," Pat Thaker, regional director for the Middle East and Africa at the Economist Intelligence Unit, told CNBC.
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That's as long as the conflict between the United States and Iran does not escalate to the point where Iran attempts to close the Strait of Hormuz, a chokepoint through which about a fifth of the world's oil supply flows, LaForge said, as he put the price of oil in perspective.
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This was because the investor market reacted more sharply to the attack on tankers near the Strait of Hormuz chokepoint, while physical players understood it was a move against product tankers, and not crude carriers, and was more likely intended as message rather than any actual attempt to disrupt crude shipments.
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