{"id":696463,"date":"2026-04-28T11:49:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T15:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=696463"},"modified":"2026-04-28T11:49:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T15:49:56","slug":"us-energy-chief-says-hormuz-can-reopen-without-clearing-all-mines-warns-iran-shut-ins-could-be-devastating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=696463","title":{"rendered":"US Energy Chief Says Hormuz Can Reopen Without Clearing All Mines, Warns Iran Shut-ins Could Be Devastating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>US Energy Secretary Chris Wright said that not all mines placed by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz need to removed for ships to resume transiting the vital passageway: \u201cYou just need a pathway for ships to be moved in and out,\u201d<\/strong> Wright said in an interview on the sidelines of the Three Seas Summit and Business Forum in Dubrovnik. \u201cI think that can happen quickly\u201d he added suggesting that a restart can happen far sooner than the full demining timeline.<em><strong> Fully clearing the strait of mines could take six months, a Pentagon official said during a classified Congressional briefing last week, the Washington Post reported.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Iran has said it laid mines along the most frequently used routes of the narrow waterway, which has been effectively closed since February 28, and through which roughly one-fifth of the world\u2019s oil and gas transited before the US and Israel launched a war on the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Understandably, shipping companies have been highly reluctant to attempt to navigate Hormuz, fearing seizure, mines, and a lack of other safety guarantees.<\/p>\n<p>Last but not least, the US energy secretary\u00a0<strong>repeated verbatim\u00a0<\/strong>what we said over the weekend, when we pointed out that a prolonged shut in would be devastating to Iran&#8217;s oil reservoirs as over half of them are low pressure<em><strong>\u00a0&#8220;<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>putting them at risk for permanent loss after shut-ins, via near-wellbore water emulsions, clay swelling, and water blockages.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/us-energy-chief-says-hormuz-can-reopen-without-clearing-all-mines-warns-iran-shut-ins-could\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/us-energy-chief-says-hormuz-can-reopen-without-clearing-all-mines-warns-iran-shut-ins-could<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>So why doesn&#8217;t the US simply announce guaranteed replacement value of ships &amp; cargo to all shipping companies &#8212; it must be cheaper to risk having one of them blow up than to have the economy damaged by having hundreds of ships sitting idle????<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Energy Secretary Chris Wright said that not all mines placed by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz need to removed for ships to resume transiting the vital passageway: \u201cYou just need a pathway for ships to be moved in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=696463\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=696463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":696464,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696463\/revisions\/696464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=696463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=696463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=696463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}