HOUSTON: Roughly 7 million barrels a day of oil are getting out of the Arabian Gulf with US military help, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said on Friday at an event in Houston. That is about half of the flow of oil that has been stuck in the Strait of Hormuz since the US-Israeli war with Iran began, Wright said. “We have a military effort that we’ve not talked a lot about, which started more recently to get cargoes out,” Wright said.

Hormuz is now a lot less blocked, with transits becoming more steady and greater in volume... About 2 million barrels a day of oil and related products are now flowing out of the…

Speaking at a Bloomberg Energy event in Houston on Friday, Wright said the U.S. military is now helping move roughly 7 million barrels per day (bpd) of oil out of the Persian Gulf.