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Major oil price shock looming as Israel-Iran conflict threatens critical global shipping passage

Buddy DoyleBy Buddy DoyleJune 18, 2025No Comments3 Mins Read
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If the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran significantly cuts supply in the global oil market, prices could surge to as much as $120 a barrel due to a potential threat to a significant shipping lane, according to industry experts.

The price of West Texas Intermediate, a key crude oil benchmark, is sitting around a one-year high, while global benchmark Brent Crude is nearing a five-month high Wednesday as the conflict between Israel and Iran enters its sixth day.

President Donald Trump met with his national security team Tuesday to discuss the escalating conflict, sparking speculation the U.S. could be preparing to join the attack, creating more volatility in the market, according to Ewa Manthey, commodities strategist at ING Financial Service. 

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But Manthey said the “key worry for the market” is the potential for disruption to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, a critical waterway that connects the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea. The waterway is not only wide enough to handle the world’s largest crude oil tankers. It is considered one of the world’s most important oil chokepoints, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA). 

ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods echoed those concerns, saying that while global oil supply is sufficient to withstand a disruption to Iranian exports, the greater concern is the potential impact on oil shipments through that waterway, which moves almost a third of global seaborne oil trade. 

smoke from refinery

In 2024, 20 million barrels of oil per day, about 20% of global petroleum liquids consumption, flowed through the waterway. There are also very few alternative options to move oil out of the strait if it is closed, according to the EIA. 

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A significant disruption to these flows would be enough to push prices to $120 per barrel, according to Manthey. But if disruptions persist toward the end of the year, she noted that Brent could trade to new record highs, surpassing the record high of close to $150 per barrel reached in 2008. 

Trump and Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

“If this occurs, we would need to see governments tap into their strategic petroleum reserves,” Manthey said, noting that it includes the U.S., which sits on more than 400 million barrels of crude oil in its strategic petroleum reserves. 

Manthey said another solution would be if the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC+) tapped into its spare production capacity of more than 5 million barrels per day. 

“While they are in the process of bringing supply back online, a disruption to Iranian supply may prompt them to bring this supply back at an even quicker pace,” Manthey said. 

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