KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait’s once prosperous oil sector has stood largely paralyzed for months, with petroleum exports plummeting as fighting raged across the Gulf — triggering the country’s largest crisis in decades. Half a year into the war, Kuwait remains a hostage to its uncompromising need to access the Strait of Hormuz — where the war between the US and Iran has choked off the once plentiful energy exports that moved across its waters.

Some of the world’s largest energy exporters dislike the emerging deal to reopen the waterway but fear going back to war would be worse. | World News

Kuwait's once prosperous oil sector has stood largely paralysed for months, with petroleum exports plummeting as fighting raged across the Gulf -- triggering the country's largest…