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Ted Cruz: “Iran has 50 to 55 million barrels of total onshore oil…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Published | Video Starts at 14:18

Yeah, this. This gets dramatically worse under a blockade. Blockade will hopefully allow offloading of the humanitarian cargoes. Final couple of points. Extremely important topic is the storage clock. Iran has 50 to 55 million barrels of total onshore oil storage, roughly 60% full spare capacity, about 20 million barrels. With 1.5 million barrels a day of surplus production that normally exports. Storage fills in 13 days. And that was from the start of the blockade. After that, Iran must shut in wells. (14:18–14:24)

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