Iran Oil Terminal That Bypasses Strait of Hormuz Is Filling Up
- Satellite imagery shows that storage tanks have filled
- Jask terminal has limited ability to ship nation’s oil
Satellite view of Kharg Island, located in the Persian Gulf off the coast of Iran.
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An oil terminal Iran built to bypass the vital strait of Hormuz appears to have partially filled with crude — offering Tehran a means to get a little of its oil into the world without using the waterway.
The Jask oil terminal — officially opened in July 2021 but largely inactive as a loading facility ever since — was about half filled late last month, an image from the Sentinel Hub website shows. By mid-October, another of its tanks also appeared to have been filled.