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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent

IEA to consider release of more oil reserves as Iran war keeps prices high

A fuel tanker approaches the Kobe oil terminal in Japan
A fuel tanker approaches the Kobe oil terminal in Japan. About 100m barrels of emergency oil stockpiles will be made available to buyers in Asia this week. Photograph: Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images

The world’s energy watchdog will consider releasing further emergency crude stocks into the global market to cool rising oil prices after warning that it will take time for markets to recover from the ongoing crisis in the strait of Hormuz.

Fatih Birol, the head of the International Energy Agency, said its members continued to hold large reserves of emergency oil stocks even after agreeing to the biggest release of government crude in the history of the market, meaning more emergency oil reserves could still be released “as and if needed”.

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