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âIt looks like there is a lot of worry in the market about a possible closure of the Suez Canal because of the escalating tensions in Egypt,â said Carl Larry, president of Oil Outlooks & Opinions LLC in Houston. âThat makes perfect sense about the rally weâre seeing in the crude market.â
The Suez Canal, which connects the Mediterranean and Red Seas, moved 1 million to 1.6 million barrels a day of oil and refined products north to Europe and other developed economies in 2008 and 2009, according to the Energy Information Administration, the statistical arm of the U.S. Energy Department. The EIA identified the canal as one of seven âworld oil transit chokepointsâ in a report earlier this month.