🔶 “About 13 million barrels of oil pass through the Strait of Hormuz every day”

Chris Wright, the U.S. energy minister, said on Saturday in an interview with Lara Trump’s program on Fox News that about 13 million barrels of oil are being shipped out through the Strait of Hormuz with the help of U.S. military forces every day. He added that on one day of the past week, the amount of oil passing through this waterway reached more than 20 million barrels, and that figure was even higher than the level before the war.

Wright confirmed that U.S. forces have been actively playing a role in operations to facilitate the transfer of oil, gas, and fertilizer through the Strait of Hormuz. He described the U.S. military presence not only as a mechanism for implementing a maritime blockade against Iran, but also as a factor for facilitating the logistics of global energy trade.

Before the start of the war in Iran, about 20 million barrels of oil were moved through the Strait of Hormuz per day, which was equivalent to one-fifth of global supply. The average of 13 million barrels per day that the U.S. energy minister mentioned in his interview with Fox News is roughly equal to 65% of the pre-war oil flow level.