US eyes Hormuz escorts by April as Trump downplays oil spike - Bloomberg EIG’s MidOcean Energy to Acquire Additional Gorgon LNG Interest from JERA; Parties Explore Strategic Alliance - MidOcean Energy US may loosen Jones Act shipping rules to combat fuel price spike - Reuters "Oil and Gas
Bottom line The clearest quiet beneficiaries were holders of prompt, uncommitted LNG outside the disrupted Qatar/Hormuz chain. This market did not reward scale in the abstract. It rewarded deliverability, flexibility, and non-Gulf optionality after the system lost all three.
Chubb set as main U.S. insurer for Persian Gulf shipping amid Iran war CNBC Shell, TotalEnergies and others declare Force Majeure to their clients who take LNG from Qatar - Reuters European gas prices rise on reports of Iranian mines in Hormuz Reuters Iran has laid about a dozen