Global oil chokepoints

Written on the original Movable Type site and recovered from the Internet Archive.

64% of the world’s oil runs thorugh 10 chokepoints in the distribution chain. Wonder what they are and how vulnerable the global Oil market is? Read this.
Choke points: Straits of Hormuz, Strait of Malacca, Abqaiq processing facility,
Suez Canal, Bab el-Mandab, Bosporus/Turkish Straits, Mina al-Ahmadi terminal
(Kuwait), Al Basrah oil terminal (Iraq), LOOP (United States), Druzhba pipeline
(Russia).

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