California now has a working countdown on its fuel supply after the last oil tanker from the Strait of Hormuz arrived at the Port of Long Beach, and state officials confirmed the state holds just four to six weeks of petrol and diesel under normal demand conditions.
The Hong Kong-flagged crude oil tanker New Corolla, which loaded two million barrels of Iraqi crude on 24 February 2026 just days before the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran, docked this week at the Marathon Petroleum terminal in Long Beach in what analysts and industry figures are describing as the last buffer between California's current fuel supply and an acute shortage.
