For months, traders have largely dismissed the risk of a supply disruption in the Middle East, but the threat is growing.
The oil market faces a rising risk of supply disruptions as war spreads in the Middle East, geopolitical and crude market analysts say.
OPEC member Iran is producing at a five-year high of more than 3 million barrels per day, Croft said. U.S. intelligence in the past has highlighted the potential risk to Iran's Kharg Island oil terminals, through which 90% of the country's crude exports pass, according to a Tuesday note from RBC Capital Markets.
Iran, in turn, would likely retaliate by threatening the 13 million bpd of crude and 5 million bpd of products that are produced in and flow through the Persian Gulf, McNally said. An escalation on this scale could send oil prices higher in increments of $10 per barrel, the analyst said.
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