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Hormuz bottleneck may take ‘few weeks’ to fix: Hamm

  • Märkte: Crude oil, Natural gas
  • 11.03.26

The bottleneck in the strait of Hormuz, a key oil choke point in the Mideast Gulf, could take a "few weeks" to be cleared, according to shale billionaire Harold Hamm.

"Everybody's guessing how long it's going to take to free that up," Hamm, a major donor to US president Donald Trump, said Wednesday in New York City. "It will be done fairly quickly, but it may be a few weeks."

Traffic through the waterway has all but ground to a halt following the threat of missile and drone attacks by Iran, sending crude prices to multi-year highs. Trump has promised insurance guarantees as well as naval escorts to get traffic moving again.

While there had previously been concerns that oil prices would soar to $100/bl due to the fall-out from the escalating US-Iran conflict — a level it reached earlier this week before falling back — the "biggest worry" should be the risk of prices hitting $200/bl, Hamm warned.

"We certainly do not need that — it wouldn't be good for the world, it wouldn't be good for our industry," Hamm said at the Argentina Week conference.

The sooner that regular tanker traffic can resume safe passage across the strait, the "better off everybody will be," he added.

Hamm, the founder and chairman of US independent Continental Resources, has recently made inroads into Argentina's Vaca Muerta shale basin.


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