{"id":193226,"date":"2026-07-14T00:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T06:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=193226"},"modified":"2026-07-14T00:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T06:00:17","slug":"oil-prices-hit-1-month-high-as-us-iran-attacks-dim-strait-of-hormuz-outlook-oil-and-gas-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=193226","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices hit 1-month high as US-Iran attacks dim Strait of Hormuz outlook | Oil and Gas News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">Oil prices have surged to their highest level in a month as renewed hostilities between the United States and Iran continued for a third consecutive day, dampening hopes for a return to normality in the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude, the primary international benchmark, rose 2 percent on Tuesday, extending a 9.6 percent gain from the previous day.<\/p>\n<section class=\"more-on\">\n<h2 class=\"more-on__heading\">Recommended Stories<!-- --> <\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list of 4 items<\/span><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>Brent futures for September delivery stood at $84.91 a barrel as of 03:30 GMT, the highest since June 15.<\/p>\n<p>After easing to pre-conflict levels following Washington and Tehran\u2019s signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for peace last month, Brent has risen about 17 percent from its price before the start of the US-Israel war on Iran in late February.<\/p>\n<p>US Central Command on Monday announced a third day of strikes on Iran, saying its forces had targeted Tehran\u2019s ability to attack \u201cinnocent civilians and commercial shipping\u201d in the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it attacked two oil supertankers in the strait and launched missile and drone strikes against US military assets in Kuwait and Bahrain in retaliation for the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Adding to the market volatility, US President Donald Trump said on Monday that Washington would reimpose its blockade of Iranian ports and begin charging vessels transit fees as the \u201cguardian\u201d of the critical waterway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrude oil is fast losing its strategic petroleum reserve buffer, and a violent repricing up cannot be discounted until the market sees toned-down rhetoric from both parties,\u201d June Goh, a senior oil market analyst at Sparta Commodities in Singapore, told Al Jazeera, referring to the US government\u2019s emergency oil stockpile, which the Trump administration has drawn on to mitigate supply constraints.<\/p>\n<p>After ticking up in recent weeks amid hopes for a permanent peace deal between Washington and Tehran, traffic in the Strait of Hormuz has plummeted amid the renewed threat of violence against commercial shipping.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 57 transits were recorded from Friday through Sunday, a more than 50 percent drop compared with the previous week, according to ship-tracking platform MarineTraffic.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly 130 vessels transited the strait daily before the US and Israel launched their initial strikes on Iran in late February.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTraffic through Hormuz is grinding to a halt, back to \u2013 or even below \u2013 our immediate pre-MoU pace,\u201d Rory Johnston, the founder of oil market research firm Commodity Context, told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe oil market has proven extremely patient through this crisis, in large part thanks to an ample stock cushion upon which we were able to draw to blunt the sharpness of the supply shock,\u201d Johnston said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, much of that cushion has now been depleted, leaving us much more vulnerable to a rerun of March and April.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has sought to assure markets that the strait remains open to shipping, despite Iran\u2019s declaration on Sunday that the waterway is closed \u201cuntil further notice\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The US Department of Energy said on Monday that 8.5 million barrels of oil passed through the strait the previous day with the assistance of the US military, describing the flow as \u201cconsistent with the recent average\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe US military will ensure oil flows continue, with or without the Iranians, to keep markets well supplied,\u201d the department said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Bart Melek, global head of commodity strategy at TD Securities in Toronto, Canada, said oil prices are likely to rise again substantially amid the resumption of US-Iran hostilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI suspect that a move to $100 is quite possible, should it become apparent that physical shortage risks are real and increasingly likely,\u201d Melek told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/economy\/2026\/7\/14\/oil-hits-1-month-high-as-us-iran-fighting-clouds-strait-of-hormuz-outlook\" target=\"_blank\" 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Brent crude, the primary international benchmark, rose 2 percent on Tuesday, extending a 9.6 percent gain from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AP26167496323276-1783994234.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":193296,"url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=193296","url_meta":{"origin":193226,"position":0},"title":"US bombs Iran again, Tehran strikes Gulf, tankers: What\u2019s the latest? | US-Israel war on Iran News","author":"Ajay Kumar Verma","date":"July 14, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"The United States carried out attacks against Iran for a third consecutive night late on Monday. 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