Hormuz is the Channel that separates Iran (north) from the Arab Peninsula (the south), at the same time connecting the Persian Gulf (west) with the Bay of Oman and the Arab Sea (north East). However, the Channel was almost closed after the U.S. and Israel began attacks on Iran on 28/2, causing the price of oil and gas to skyrocket, while also raising concerns about a severe energy crisis.
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), at the narrowest point, the Hormuz Channel is only about 54 km wide, consisting of a wide 3.7 km (3.7 km) of ocean currents for ships coming out of the same 3.7 km wide buffer zone. The reason for such a narrow escape from the Persian Gulf is the same reason that the area has an abundance of oil: a continental collision that lasts for millions of years.
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Iran is located on the boundary where the Arab creative array collides with the Asian-Canada. This collision disfigures the terrain, creating Zagros - the long mountain range in Iran, pressing down the Arab area and causing it to bend up. This curve creates a valley point in the Earth's crust called the precognition basin, which accumulates large amounts of oil. The basin also accumulates water, creating long and narrow Persian Gulf.
"The combination of many geologic elements caused the Middle East to store massive oil reserves on both sides of the Persian Gulf", Mark Allen, Professor of Earth Science at Durham University, told Scientific American.
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According to Edwin Nissen, Professor of Earth Science and Ocean at the University of Victoria, hundreds of millions of years ago, the northern edge of today's Arab array is "absolutely passive", which plays the boundary between the continental shell and the ocean shell, with little creative activity. Over the centuries the sea level has continued to rise and fall, causing the edge to accumulate numerous layers of organic rock, styrofoam, limestone, crevasse, salt, and solid rock. The organic material is buried deep, transformed into oil and natural gas under temperature and pressure and extremes. The sandstone and limestone create cracks where the oil can accumulate, while the layer above holds everything in place.
According to the research published in the magazine Results in Earth Sciences in 2024, the site contained about 12% of the world's oil reserves.
Those mile-deep subdivisions still existed 30 million years ago, due to the expansion of the Red Sea in the southwest, the Arab region began to move northeast and then crashed into the Asian-Canada. Like the caps of the two cars in the traffic crash, continents are smashed together, shrinks and curls up. The Arab and Ádámang have continued to rush each other at about 20 mm per year, sometimes causing deadly earthquakes.
Get out! [Pressions of Zagros Mountains (Iran) see from the International Space Station (ISS). Image: NASA](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAACH5BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACACACACATATATAEAAAAEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEAAAAAATATATATAAEAEAAAAAEAAAEAAAAAAAAAAAAEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- The oscillation of the Zagros Mountains (Iran) sees from the International Space Station (ISS). Image: NAA*
The collision also created the folded ring and broke Zagros, including the 1600 km long mountain range from eastern Turkey to the Straits of Hormberg at the end of the Persian Gulf, processes such as ice and erosion that play a vital role in shaping the majority of the world's mountains, but the Zagoros again express the folds from the continental collision with long and continuous mountain life. The mountain range itself was so disfigured that it could not contain petroleum, but in the vicinity, where less disfigured, similar folds below the ground kept huge amounts of gas.
"Zagros gathers all conditions favorable for oil", Nissen remarked.
Eo the narrow Sea Hormuz is a key embolism point with oil
The weight of the Zagros series sinks the Earth's crust in a narrow and shallow area so that the Persian Gulf is only about 110 m and is about 340 km wide. The Sea of Hormuz, which lies between the Persian Gulf and the Bay of Oman, is also the place where the Musandam Peninsula consists of a northern part of Oman and UAE unfolded, even just 54 km wide.
According to Renas Koshnaw, researcher at Georg August Gottingen University, Hormuz narrower than the rest of the Persian Gulf due to the hard rock structure of the Musandam Peninsula, which is capitalised to the corner with the Zagros. As the collision between the Arab and the Asian sections pushed these two structures together, the peninsula caused the front of the mountains and both the Persian Gulf to curl up as the twisting part of the drainage.
Professor Allen remarked, the narrow Hormuz Channel was mainly due to the geologic process, but now became a "necked bottle" with the maritime industry. Oil carriers do not have a lot of operational space and are mooring very near the coast of Iran.
Get out! [ The ships avoid passing through the Hormuz Sea Ego. Photo: LSEG, Reuters](edata:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlAQABAAAAACH5BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
The ships avoid passing through the Hormuz Sea Ego. Image: LSEG, Reuters
IEA rated Hormuz as one of the world's most important oil traffic points. In 2025, an average of 20 million barrels of oil, equivalent to 25% of the oil shipped by global seaways, passed through this Channel every day, 80% of which headed for Asia. While Saudi Arab and UAE have several oil export routes that do not pass through Hormuz, many other countries around the Persian Gulf such as Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Qatar still depend on this Channel to transport much of the export oil.
The Channel also has a significant impact on the global gas trade because approximately 93% of the naturalized gas (LNG) exports of Qatar and 96% of UAE pass through this Channel, making up 19% of the world's total LNG trade.
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