Senior Gulf energy official: only way to reopen Hormuz is to stop the war

A senior Gulf energy industry official told reporters on condition of anonymity that stopping the Iran war is the only viable path to reopening the Strait of Hormuz. When asked whether there were technical or diplomatic measures that could get oil and gas moving through Hormuz again without ending the war, the official answered simply: stopping the war is the only option. The statement rules out the partial workarounds — escorted convoys, tanker corridor negotiations, UAE/Oman bilateral assurances — that some analysts had speculated could partially restore Hormuz traffic without a full ceasefire. The Strait has been effectively closed for 11 days — the longest sustained Hormuz closure in history. The previous longest closure, during the 1980s Tanker War, never fully shut the strait. The Gulf energy official's assessment, combined with Saudi Aramco CEO Amin Nasser's 'catastrophic' warning and Bloomberg's report of 6.5 million barrels per day offline, paints a picture of an energy market with no short-term relief unless the war ends.