barrel

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Airport travelers on the East Coast were already facing a difficult Sunday with a blizzard barreling toward New York and much of the Northeast.

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There are around 300 million barrels of Russian and Iranian oil at sea, according to ship tracker Vortexa.

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Still, Brent crude futures rose 5.9% for the week to $71.76 a barrel, with investors bracing for a potential U.S. strike in Iran.

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U.S. inventory data added support to prices, with the EIA reporting an unexpected 9 million barrel crude stock draw for last week.

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Saudi Arabia and the UAE have pipelines bypass the strait, but their spare capacity would cover only a fraction of the roughly 20 million barrels a day usually flowing through Hormuz.

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