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2 ships carrying 4 million barrels of oil from Saudi bombed in Strait of Hormuz

short by Ankush Verma / on Tuesday, 1 September, 2026
Two supertankers carrying oil from Saudi Arabia were bombed within minutes of each other while transiting the Strait of Hormuz. The supertankers each loaded 2 million barrels of Saudi crude at the Juaymah terminal last week. Efforts to reopen the strait, which carried about a fifth of global oil supplies before the Middle East war, have so far proven inconclusive.
read more at Reuters