{"id":472,"date":"2026-05-10T16:52:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T16:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=472"},"modified":"2026-05-10T16:52:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T16:52:03","slug":"aramco-ceo-warns-1-billion-barrels-lost-will-slow-oil-market-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=472","title":{"rendered":"Aramco CEO warns 1 billion barrels lost will slow oil market recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DUBAI: The world has lost about 1 billion barrels of oil over the past two months and energy markets will take time to stabilise even if flows resume, Saudi Aramco\u2019s CEO said on Sunday, as shipping disruptions choke traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur objective is simple: keep energy flowing, even when the system is under strain,\u201d Amin Nasser told Reuters in a statement after Aramco reported a 25% jump in net profit in its first-quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Global energy supplies have been sharply squeezed by Iran\u2019s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, which has curtailed shipping and driven prices higher following the U.S.-Israeli war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReopening routes is not the same as normalizing a market that has been deprived of about one billion barrels of oil,\u201d Nasser said, adding that years of underinvestment have compounded the strain on already-low global inventories.<\/p>\n<p>Aramco has used its East-West Pipeline to bypass Hormuz and transport crude to the Red Sea, an asset Nasser described as a \u201ccritical lifeline\u201d to mitigate the global supply crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Despite shifts in shipping routes, Nasser reiterated that Asia remained a key priority for the company and was central to global demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: The world has lost about 1 billion barrels of oil over the past two months and energy markets will take time to stabilise even if flows resume, Saudi Aramco\u2019s CEO said on Sunday, as shipping disruptions choke traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. \u201cOur objective is simple: keep energy flowing, even when the system [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}