{"id":834,"date":"2026-05-12T09:39:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T09:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=834"},"modified":"2026-05-12T09:39:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T09:39:59","slug":"100-million-barrels-lost-every-week-strait-of-hormuz-is-shut-saudi-aramco-ceo-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=834","title":{"rendered":"100 million barrels lost every week Strait of Hormuz is shut, Saudi Aramco CEO says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices continued to climb on Tuesday, as US President Donald Trump said the ceasefire with Iran was &#8220;on massive life support&#8221;. Meanwhile, the CEO of Saudi Aramco, the world&#8217;s largest oil company, told analysts the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has generated a loss of 100 million barrels every week. Also in this edition: Trump wants to scrap the US federal gas tax to help consumers deal with the impact of the war in Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices continued to climb on Tuesday, as US President Donald Trump said the ceasefire with Iran was &#8220;on massive life support&#8221;. Meanwhile, the CEO of Saudi Aramco, the world&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=834\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}