Even if the Strait of Hormuz were to reopen tomorrow, the CEOs of the world's largest exporters of crude oil and LNG say a return to prewar Gulf export flows will take months. With 15% of the world’s oil supplies and 20% of its LNG now off the market for 2 ½ months, the shockwaves are increasingly acute. The sober assessment of both Saudi Aramco CEO Amin Nasser and his QatarEnergy counterpart, Saad al-Kaabi, is that things will get worse before they get better. Al-Kaabi this week told Energy Intelligence that it will take "two to three months minimum" after the strait reopens for flows to return to levels seen before the US and Israel launched attacks on Iran Feb. 28. Nasser, speaking on Aramco's first-quarter earnings call this week, said that "even in the most optimistic scenario, energy and commodity supply chains will need several months" to return to pre-conflict norms.