US officials say Hormuz oil flows reaching half of pre-war levels

US officials say Hormuz oil flows reaching half of pre-war levels Submitted by Sean Mathews on Fri, 06/12/2026 - 18:32 The US secretary of interior attributes the drop in oil prices to millions more barrels leaving the Strait of Hormuz In this picture obtained from Iran's ISNA news agency, residents take a dip as cargo and commercial vessels lie at anchor in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas in Iran, on 8 June 2026 (Amirhossein Khorgooei/AFP) Off The US Navy is escorting dozens of vessels through the Strait of Hormuz each night, carrying millions of barrels of oil, senior US officials said on Friday. US Energy Secretary Chris Wright said vessels under US protection were carrying about seven million barrels of oil per day through the Strait of Hormuz - a substantial amount, roughly half of what was transiting the waterway before the US-Israeli war on Iran began on 28 February. “Flows today are approaching half of the gap, and they’re rising,” Wright told the Bloomberg Energy Security Executive Briefing in Houston, Texas.