Tag: Oil

In this Sunday, July 21, 2019 photo, an aerial view shows a speedboat of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp moving around the British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero, which was seized in the Strait of Hormuz by the Guard, in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas. | (Morteza Akhoondi/AP)

US retaliated against Iran with secret cyberattack after Saudi oil strike

John Gage · October 16, 2019 1:13 pm

This photo taken and released by the official news agency of the Iranian Oil Ministry, SHANA, on Friday, Oct. 11, 2019 shows Iranian oil tanker Sabiti traveling through the Red Sea off the coast of Saudi Arabia. Two missiles struck the Iranian tanker Sabiti traveling through the Red Sea off the coast of Saudi Arabia on Friday, Iranian officials said, the latest incident in the region amid months of heightened tensions between Tehran and the U.S.

National Security

Missiles hit Iranian oil tanker off coast of Saudi Arabia

Zach Halaschak · October 11, 2019 1:15 pm

The U.S. is home to the Permian Basin, the world's most productive oil field.

The US shale oil boom has made a Middle East war less likely

Merrill Matthews · October 7, 2019 1:50 pm

FILE - In this July 21, 2019, file photo, a speedboat of the Iran's Revolutionary Guard moves around a British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero, which was seized on Friday by the Guard, in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas.

British-flagged tanker seized by Iran leaves port after being held for months

Caitlin Yilek · September 27, 2019 12:04 pm

The sun rises over the Neftyanye Kamny, or Oil Stones, rigs at the shore of the Kaspian Sea in Baku, Azerbaijan.

The 25-year-old deal that still sends Russia and Iran into fits

Geovanny Vicente Romero · September 20, 2019 4:00 am

Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Magazine - Washington Briefing

Trump touts oil boom as he tries to turn New Mexico red

Rob Crilly · September 20, 2019 3:00 am

FILE - In this Feb. 21, 2010 file photo, Iran's Jamaran guided-missile destroyer fires during an exercise in the Persian Gulf, off the coast of Iran. Iran has announced the deployment of ship-based missiles that can target shorelines from international waters, and its naval commander said that Islamic Republic warships could someday be cruising near America's Atlantic seaboard.

Beltway Confidential

Military strikes on Iran? Here are 5 possible targets

Michael Rubin · September 19, 2019 3:01 pm

Somalia President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed

Beltway Confidential

10 topics the Somali president should address when he visits the US

Michael Rubin · September 18, 2019 4:05 pm

Workers refuel the tank at a gas station in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019.

Energy and Environment

Saudi Arabia restores half its lost oil production after attack

Josh Siegel · September 17, 2019 6:58 pm

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani waits for Turkey's parliament speaker and former Prime Minister, Binali Yildirim, for their meeting, after a six-nation conference on fighting terrorism in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

Stand up to Iran’s oil market terrorism

brenda-shaffer, Mark Dubowitz · September 17, 2019 5:46 pm

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Sept. 16, 2019, in Washington.

Beltway Confidential

Why, and how, Trump should retaliate against Iran

Quin Hillyer · September 16, 2019 8:02 pm

This Saturday, Sept. 14, 2019, satellite image from Planet Labs Inc. shows thick black smoke rising from Saudi Aramco's Abqaiq oil processing facility in Buqyaq, Saudi Arabia.

Beltway Confidential

The US should support Saudi Arabian retaliation against Iran

Tom Rogan · September 16, 2019 6:42 pm