According to WPB, Iraq has moved its search for alternatives to the Strait of Hormuz from emergency planning toward a defined commercial mechanism. On August 18, 2026, the Iraqi Council of Ministers approved new arrangements allowing Iraqi...
According to WPB, two of China’s largest state-controlled tanker operators are no longer treating the Strait of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb as routine...
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According to WPB, China’s bitumen benchmark moved higher again on August 17, 2026, strengthening the argument that Asia may be entering another upw...
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According to WPB, the most important constraint in today’s oil market may no longer be the availability of crude alone. The pressure is increasingl...
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According to WPB, the Strait of Hormuz is approaching a point where the conventional way of pricing Gulf bitumen may no longer tell buyers enough abo...
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According to WPB, Indonesia is moving from a long-discussed ambition to reduce imported bitumen toward a more structured domestic-substitution policy...
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