Factbox: Middle East oil, gas shipping risks; alternative routes
Warplanes from Saudi Arabia and Arab allies struck Shi'ite Muslim rebels fighting to oust Yemen's president on Thursday, in a push by the world's top oil exporter to check Iranian influence in its backyard./ Below are facts about threats to the major energy transit routes of the Middle East and possible alternative routes. The most important oil transit channel in the world, with some 17 million barrels per day (bpd), or about 30 percent of all seaborne-traded oil, passing through in 2013, according to the U.S. Energy Information ...
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