{"id":6861,"date":"2015-03-26T18:38:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T23:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6861"},"modified":"2015-03-26T18:38:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T23:38:26","slug":"the-worlds-greatest-oil-chokepoints-and-why-yemen-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6861","title":{"rendered":"The World&#8217;s Greatest Oil Chokepoints, And Why Yemen Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-03-26\/worlds-greatest-oil-chokepoints-and-why-yemen-matters\" target=\"_blank\">The World&#8217;s Greatest Oil Chokepoints, And Why Yemen Matters<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>About half the world&#8217;s oil production is moved by tankers on fixed maritime routes,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fingfx.thomsonreuters.com\/2015\/03\/25\/1655109add.jpg\">according to Reuters.<\/a>\u00a0<strong>The blockage of a chokepoint, even temporarily, can lead to substantial increases in total energy costs\u00a0<\/strong>and thus, these checkpoints are crucial to global energy security. While Hormuz remains the largest chokepoint (and along with Bab el-Mandeb\u00a0<strong>explains why Yemen matters so much<\/strong>),\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fnews%2F2014-04-20%2Ffueling-new-world-order-where-does-china-import-its-crude-oil&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNFzZJKKq1LcIK7ZsceaF4UMst3F-Q\">Malacca (as we noted previously) is quickly becoming another area of potential problems<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And while Yemen is key for The Strait of Hormuz&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2015\/03-overflow\/20150326_choke.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2015\/03-overflow\/20150326_choke_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"448\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With Bab el-Mandeb even more specifically problematic if Yemen tensions get too extreme&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World&#8217;s Greatest Oil Chokepoints, And Why Yemen Matters About half the world&#8217;s oil production is moved by tankers on fixed maritime routes,\u00a0according to Reuters.\u00a0The blockage of a chokepoint, even temporarily, can lead to substantial increases in total energy costs\u00a0and thus, these checkpoints are crucial to global energy security. While Hormuz remains the largest chokepoint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[4454,588,4453,3644,901],"class_list":["post-6861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-malacca","tag-oil","tag-oil-transit-chokepoints","tag-oil-transport","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6862,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6861\/revisions\/6862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}