Iran is exploring sending crude oil to China via rail to bypass the US nval blockade of Hormuz in another spectacular backfire which could see China and Iran linked even more closely by overland transport routes.
As a physical substance, oil flows can be dealt with relatively easily in 2026 especially with the engieering skills of China and its steel manufactuing and machine enegineering capacity.
Hugh Hendry s analysis, showed by Zerohedge, assumes that Iran does not a range of creative solutions to solve the problem of avoiding a shut down of its oil infrastructure and a drop in pressure.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/time-running-out-iran-market-has-wrecked-mainstreams-narrative-hugh-hendry-explains
But Iran does have a creative mindset and a will to find solutions.
However, as Axios reports, Iran is already considering different options.
With exports backing up, Tehran is reportedly reviving disused “junk storage” sites, using makeshift containers and exploring crude shipments by rail to China, in an effort to delay a wider infrastructure crisis and avoid a sharper shutdown in production.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/reports-iran-improvising-oil-storage-and-export-routes-as-us-blockade-cuts-shipments/
Iran can also open up the pipelines, add equipment and start buding crude to free up ever new storage.
Burning millions of tonnes of oil for a few months to keep its infrastructure should be easy.
If a pipe system is added to the complex bruring off crude oil is cllose to a town, the heat can provide heating to homes or power new factoriies.
A new pipeline can be built connecting Iran to China.
That takes time but there are ways to speed it up and to store oil by creating artificial oil lakes in natural hollows in Iran s terrain close to existing pipelines.
An extra pipeline can be built to link the existing system to an artififical lake built using dynamite to creae vast lakes which can be lined with concrete.
Oil can be burnt there.
Iran can also start buring crude oil to keep production flowing if a shut down leads to irreversible drops in pressure and damage.
However, my thinking is that Iran can just bore another well to tap the oil if any one particular well becomes inaccessible due to a shut down.
Meanwhile, the clock is ticking down on the irreversibe damage done by higher energy prices.
Higher energy princes destroying an economy are the truly ireversible damage Trump is causing.
The noton that if Europec collapses economically, the pain will be so great , it will join the blockade and so cause its own clollapse is delusional and yet that kind of fantasy is being pushed by the likes of Zerohedge.
Circular logic? Solve a problem by making it bigger? Open the Strait of Hormuz by closing it longer through doomed military action? And when Europe has no military power?No advanced missiles like Iran? And cannot afford more money for NATO as the economy crashes? And as the public is in revolt against their Epstein mastes and more likely to join Iran?
In general, the Epstein gang and their media like Zerohedge , themselves the paid propagandists of a dying empire lacking initiative, creativity and intelligence, appears to make the same mistake over and over. They assume that what has never before been a problem to Iran and so never had to be solved by Iran cannot be solved by Iran when it does become a problem.
And they never learn. Everything goes wrong. The China trade war turns into a disaster, cutting he US off from rare crticial minerals. The Ukraine war causes Russia and China and Iran to form a new alliance. The Iran war is now nealry 60 days old and the US is running out of ammo and the dollar is about to collapse. But they forget about all their other failurres and focus on their new failures.
They assumed that states are fixed and cannot change or be changed by human ingenuity because they have no ingenuity. They assume that states are affected by one or two variables because they cannot think of more than one or two variables.
Their analyses turn out to be wrong and they never understand the problem is how they replace wishful thinking with real thinking.
Likewise, they assume the US and European economies cannot collapse. They can. The result will not be vast numbers of people organized to fight Russia, China and Iran like Hitler nd Nazi Germany. It will social unrest, civil war and devastation which will open the eway for China to buy up everything.
From media
Iran has more cards to play to avoid the U.S. blockade halting its oil output — at least for now, analysts say.
Why it matters: Oil is Iran's economic lifeblood, and President Trump hopes blocking exports — which eventually causes production to halt — will force concessions.
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/28/iran-oil-options-blockade
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