{"id":47154,"date":"2026-08-22T14:31:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T18:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=47154"},"modified":"2026-08-22T14:31:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T18:31:27","slug":"47154","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=47154","title":{"rendered":"How the US and Middle East allies flipped the oil script on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/08\/22\/business\/oil-strait-of-hormuz-iran\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/gettyimages-2290383484.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:198px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>On the afternoon of July 25, the Greek-owned supertanker Kiku docked at Qatar\u2019s Mesaieed oil export terminal, a massive, 30-berth port on the country\u2019s west coast, 25 miles south of Doha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>tl;dr: tankers transit oil out of gulf with us protection, then transfer to other ships to get the oil out to final destinations.  as mentioned other places, greek shipping companies are willing to take the risk.  also, china &amp; usa have almost depleted reserves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the afternoon of July 25, the Greek-owned supertanker Kiku docked at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[364,33,564,2296,57],"class_list":["post-47154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-iran","tag-oil","tag-shipping","tag-spr","tag-usa","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47154"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47158,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47154\/revisions\/47158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}