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Business - 100 million barrels lost every week Strait of Hormuz is shut, Saudi Aramco CEO says

France24 · · 136 words · By Charles PELLEGRIN; Bryan QUINN
US Domestic Economic Policy Global Oil Market Stability US-Iran Geopolitical Tension
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5 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“Oil prices continued to climb on Tuesday”
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The evidence directly contradicts the claim. The Guardian reports that oil prices 'plunge' and other sources state oil prices 'continue to fall' on the Tuesday mentioned, rather than climbing.
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web search NEUTRAL — Explore real-time Crude Oil futures price data and key metrics crucial for understanding and navigating the Crude Oil Futures market.
https://www.investing.com/commodities/crude-oil
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web search NEUTRAL — Some companies expect higher oil prices to boost their business. On Tuesday, oil giant BP said it expected its trading division to report "exceptional" results for the January to March period.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr9qrnp821o
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web search NEUTRAL — A chart showing the Brent crude oil price. Reuters reported on Wednesday that investors placed a combined $950m bet on oil prices falling, hours before the ceasefire was announced. With just over an h…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/08/oil-prices-sto…
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“US President Donald Trump said the ceasefire with Iran was 'on massive life support'”
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Three independent news organizations (BBC News, CNBC, and EuroNews) all report that President Donald Trump described the ceasefire with Iran as being on 'massive life support'.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On April 12, 2025, Iran and the United States began a series of negotiations aimed at reaching a nuclear peace agreement, following a letter from US president Donald Trump to Iranian supreme leader Al…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025–2026_Iran–United_States_n…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Donald Trump has been the target of numerous assassination attempts and death threats during his presidential campaigning and his presidencies of the United States of America. The earliest known attem…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_incidents_involving_D…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — "Trump Always Chickens Out" (TACO) is a pejorative description of the perceived tendency of United States president Donald Trump to make threats, only to later delay or renege on them as a way to incr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Always_Chickens_Out
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“the CEO of Saudi Aramco, the world's largest oil company, told analysts the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has generated a loss of 100 million barrels every week”
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The claim is supported by a Wikipedia entry regarding the 2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis and a web search result specifically stating that the world is losing 100 million barrels of oil per week due to the collapse of tanker traffic in the Strait.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Qatif (Arabic: ٱلْقَطِيف‎, romanized: al-Qaṭīf) is a governorate located in Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia. It extends from Ras Tanura and Jubail in the north to Dammam in the south, and from the Pers…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatif
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The East-West Pipeline, also known as the Petroline, is a 746-mile-long (1,201 km) pipeline in Saudi Arabia that runs from the Abqaiq oil field in the Eastern Province (near Bahrain and Qatar on the P…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East–West_Crude_Oil_Pipeline
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a major maritime choke point for world energy trade, has been largely blocked by Iran since 28 February 2026, when the United States and Israel launched …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Strait_of_Hormuz_crisis
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“Saudi Aramco [is] the world's largest oil company”
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While the provided snippets for Saudi Arabia are general, Saudi Aramco is globally recognized as the world's largest oil company, and the context of the CEO's statements in the evidence reinforces this status.
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web search NEUTRAL — Saudi Arabia was founded in 1932 by King Abdulaziz, who united Hejaz, Najd, parts of Eastern Arabia and South Arabia (Asir) into a single state through a series of military and political campaigns beg…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia
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web search NEUTRAL — 1 day ago · Saudi Arabia is a sparsely populated kingdom in the Middle East, known for its oil industry and ruled by the Saud family that embraced the conservative Wahhabi Islamic movement in the 18th…
https://www.britannica.com/place/Saudi-Arabia
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web search NEUTRAL — Discover Saudi Arabia. Explore Saudi Arabia facts, culture, history & comprehensive country profile with maps, statistics & research resources for students & travelers.
https://www.countryreports.org/country/SaudiArabia.htm
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“Trump wants to scrap the US federal gas tax to help consumers deal with the impact of the war in Iran”
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Multiple independent web sources (Vox and other news reports) confirm that Donald Trump pledged or called to suspend/scrap the federal gas tax to mitigate the impact of fuel price rises caused by the war with Iran.
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web search NEUTRAL — Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump hopes to suspend the federal gas tax as his war with Iran drives prices ever higher.On Sunday, however, Trump rejected an Iranian response to the latest U…
https://www.vox.com/the-logoff-newsletter-trump/488360/trump…
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web search NEUTRAL — Donald Trump pledged to suspend the US federal gas tax in an effort to reduce pressure on Americans after the US-Israel war on Iran sparked a sharp rise in fuel prices.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/11/trump-federa…
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web search NEUTRAL — Trump to reduce federal gas tax due to war with Iran.Gas tax suspension: What Trump's proposal could mean for drivers at the pump.
https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqNggKIjBDQklTSGpvSmMzUnZj…
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