Strait of Hormuz Crisis: Closure, Shipping and Reopening

The security of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz and its effect on Gulf energy exports, covering Iranian disruption and closure of the waterway, transit arrangements and negotiations over reopening, maritime risk, and the contingency measures producers use to keep exports flowing.

The Strait of Hormuz is disrupted again after a brief post-MoU reopening, with Tehran continuing to interrupt transit and tying full reopening to broader conditions.

Oman is negotiating a Hormuz transit arrangement with Iran while fending off US objections, a Trump threat against Muscat and reported US plans to seize parts of the Musandam peninsula; a planned Iran-GCC-Iraq meeting on Hormuz in Oman was postponed; and Iraq has secured tanker passage through bilateral talks with Tehran.

QatarEnergy is cautiously restoring LNG carrier movements to Ras Laffan after exports collapsed, while Saudi Aramco relies on ship-to-ship sales off Oman and the UAE and on the East-West Pipeline to Yanbu, itself attacked on 10 September.

This topic page tracks transit risk and Iran's Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA), Qatari, Omani and Turkish de-escalation efforts, overseas crude and LNG storage by Aramco, ADNOC, KPC and QatarEnergy, and bypass corridors through the Red Sea, Fujairah, Egypt and overland pipelines.

Critical for shipping operators, marine insurers, commodity traders and energy security planners.