3:29 • The President, Ukraine, Russia’s energy sector, Iran and the Gulf, supply vs. demand • every outlet credited on screen
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The President first. On Sunday, Oct. 11, President Trump posted on Truth Social: “Effective immediately, there is an ENERGY CEASEFIRE in the War between Russia and Ukraine. Both parties have agreed. Do not break it!” (Truth Social post (mirror); CNBC, Oct. 11). Four days later it has not held: Russia struck Ukraine’s power system on Oct. 14 (26 power-system and four oil-and-gas facilities damaged, at least 600,000 people without power, per Zelenskyy), and on Oct. 15 Ukrainian drones set fire to Russia’s Ryazan refinery after Kyiv said it had paused refinery strikes for three days (CNBC, Oct. 14; Moscow Times, Oct. 15). Russia’s energy sector is burning too: Ukrainian drones set the Ryazan refinery ablaze Oct. 15 — the same day Putin told a Business Russia forum that recent refinery hits caused nothing “significant” and that Kyiv “shouldn’t have started it” (Fontanka, Oct. 15). Trump has also defended a deal to let Russian diesel reach the world market, said the Iran war will “end very quickly,” and claimed more oil is leaving the Strait of Hormuz than before the war — a claim that does not match Kpler’s tanker data.
This feature tallies energy infrastructure damaged or knocked offline in the Ukraine war (including the big fires inside Russia) and the Iran war, and what it adds up to for global supply. One note on framing: global oil demand is not outrunning supply — it is falling (IEA: −2.6 million barrels a day in 2026) because of price, but supply has fallen faster (−5.8 million), so stocks are being drawn down and the market is in deficit.
- Oct. 11 – the “energy ceasefire.” Text above. Both Moscow and Kyiv initially denied knowing of any agreement; Zelenskyy later said Ukraine would honor it if Russia did; Lavrov said the status was unclear (CNBC, Oct. 14).
- Oct. 12 – to reporters: “They agreed, because I said, ‘You agree.’” Asked about Putin, Trump said “I think they both support it… they want to make a deal, but they don’t know how.” (Al Jazeera; Acyn/X clip of the exchange.) Zelenskyy’s reply: Russia hit a Kharkiv power plant right after the post — “It was clear that Putin does not read Truth Social.”
- Oct. 13 – the diesel deal: “That’s a diesel deal that’s going to be released into the world market, because the world market suffered with high prices. And when you knock out diesel refineries, that’s not a great thing, but they’re not releasing that to us.” (Al Jazeera; Sky News.) Washington temporarily waived sanctions on hundreds of thousands of tons of Russian diesel (Fox News).
- Oct. 13–14 – Hormuz: at a rally (Fox says Wasilla, Alaska) Trump said “The straits have been opened. We’ve been taking more oil out of the straits now than we did before the war started… we control the straits.” DISPUTED: Kpler’s 7-day average to Oct. 12 was 7.6 mb/d through the strait vs. 17.1 pre-war (preliminary; 9.3 mb/d counting Gulf of Oman ship-to-ship transfers) (Kpler media briefing, Oct. 14). Another clip has him saying U.S. forces have “total control” and a naval blockade like a “wall of steel” (Al Arabiya, Oct. 14).
- Oct. 14 – Kalispell, Montana: the war will “end very quickly,” “and when that happens the oil is going to come way down”; he also said Iran’s remaining negotiators are asking to be allowed to live (NBC Montana, Oct. 14).
| Aug. | Ukraine strikes Russian refineries at least 21 times, a record month; Russian refinery runs ~3.8 mb/d, lowest in 20+ years (Bloomberg via Meduza, Aug. 28). |
| Sept. 20 | Drone strike sets a Moscow oil refinery ablaze during Ukraine’s reported largest attack on the capital (CBS News). |
| Oct. 1 | Putin at Valdai: strikes cost ~1% of GDP; “Did they achieve their goal? Partially.” (AP / PBS, Oct. 5). |
| Oct. 2–7 | Samara oil hub (Transneft) hit Oct. 2 — Ukraine’s General Staff: 14 tanks damaged (Ukrinform); struck again Oct. 7, with a major fire reported (Ukrinform). Volgograd refinery stopped after Oct. 2 strike (Al Arabiya, citing sources). |
| Oct. 9 | EU gas storage report: 72% full on Oct. 1, ~11 points below a year ago; ENTSOG warns of 13% by end-March if LNG is tight (Gas Infrastructure Europe / ENTSOG, Oct. 9). |
| Oct. 10 | Yug Rusi (NZNP) oil-loading terminal in Rostov-on-Don burns after a drone attack; Gov. Yuriy Slyusar confirms a fire (Kyiv Independent, Oct. 10). |
| Oct. 11 | Trump announces an “energy ceasefire.” Houthi strikes on Riyadh’s airport the same weekend. |
| Oct. 12 | Zelenskyy accuses Russia of violating it; Kpler data show Hormuz flows falling after intensified tanker attacks. |
| Oct. 13 | Fire at an Aramco administrative building in Dhahran (Saudi Energy Ministry); Trump defends Russian diesel deal. |
| Oct. 14 | Russian missiles hit Kyiv and Kharkiv power systems; IEA monthly report; two ships reported sunk near Hormuz; Trump rally in Kalispell. |
| Oct. 15 | Ukrainian drones hit the Ryazan refinery (about 5% of Russian capacity); Putin: Ukraine “shouldn’t have started” the strikes; Zelenskyy tells the FT “The block is out. We’re done”; Peskov accuses Kyiv of undermining U.S. peace efforts; Naftogaz gas facility in Poltava hit; IAEA-brokered local truce for Zaporizhzhia power-line repairs. |
- Oct. 14: Zelenskyy: damage at 26 power-system facilities and four oil-and-gas facilities; at least 600,000 without power in Kyiv and Kharkiv regions (CNBC, Oct. 14). All three Kyiv municipal heat-and-power plants were targeted (Interfax-Ukraine, Oct. 14). Kyiv returned to scheduled outages by Oct. 15 (Interfax-Ukraine (DTEK), Oct. 15).
- Oct. 15: Naftogaz: a gas-production facility in Poltava region was hit by a drone overnight; fire, operations suspended (Naftogaz, Oct. 15).
- Season-to-date: Energy Minister Shmyhal said Mar. 10 that 9 GW of generation was damaged during the 2025–26 heating season and Russia had launched 5,900+ attacks on the grid since 2022 (UNN, Mar. 10).
- Zaporizhzhia: an IAEA-brokered local ceasefire is in place to repair a 330 kV switchyard line; Rosatom says external power remains unstable (CGTN, Oct. 15; Anadolu, Oct. 15).
- Not available: we found no current official national generation-deficit figure for Ukraine, so none is shown.
The fires. The video shows four: the Ryazan refinery (Oct. 15, RT footage; the governor reports a fire from the drone attack, the Defense Ministry says falling drone debris started it); a Moscow refinery (Sept. 20, CBS News); the Yug Rusi oil terminal in Rostov-on-Don (Oct. 10, NEXTA; governor confirmed a fire, the terminal was identified by ASTRA; not independently verified); and the Samara oil hub (Oct. 7, Social media video • unverified, Exilenova+ footage via NEXTA).
- Ryazan: a Rosneft refinery about 180 km south of Moscow (Al Jazeera/Reuters) that supplies fuel for Moscow and accounts for 5% of Russia’s refining capacity; it previously suspended operations after drone attacks in May, July and September (Moscow Times, Oct. 15). Russia’s Defense Ministry said a “fire broke out after drone debris fell onto the refinery site” (Al Jazeera / Reuters, Oct. 15).
- Samara hub: Ukraine’s General Staff said the Oct. 2 strike on Transneft’s Samara pumping station damaged 11 RVS-20000 and three RVSPK-50000 tanks (Ukrinform); a further strike Oct. 7 destroyed four RVS-50000 tanks and caused a major fire (Ukrinform). These are Ukrainian claims.
- Numbers: August refinery runs ~3.8 mb/d vs. 5.3–5.5 mb/d typical in summer; a record 21 Ukrainian strikes on refineries in August (Bloomberg via Meduza, Aug. 28). Ukraine’s 51% “disabled” claim is UNVERIFIED; the IEA puts diesel output down ~30% (AP / PBS, Oct. 5). We found no Reuters or Bloomberg percentage-of-capacity-offline figure for this month.
- Zelenskyy: He told the FT that Ukraine paused refinery strikes for three days after Trump’s announcement; now “The block [on attacking refineries] is out. We’re done” (Moscow Times, Oct. 15).
- Kremlin: Spokesman Dmitry Peskov (not Putin) said Kyiv is “coming into serious contradiction with the peace efforts of the United States” (Moscow Times, Oct. 15).
Putin, Oct. 15, plenary session of the Business Russia forum (by video link):
On the refineries — «Кое-куда попали. Ничего такого существенного, но тем не менее продолжают.» (our translation: “They hit a few places. Nothing all that significant, but they keep going.”) On Russia’s response — «Они начали. Не надо было начинать. Надо было, прежде чем сделать этот шаг, как следует подумать над последствиями.» (“They started it. They shouldn’t have started it. Before taking that step they should have thought carefully about the consequences.”) He added that Russia has “started to respond” and that Ukraine is now “squealing” over energy and other targets including data centres. Russian text per Fontanka, Oct. 15 and Life.ru, Oct. 15; the video uses RT’s English interpretation.
Putin, Oct. 1, Valdai Discussion Club: “They started attacking oil refineries and openly declared the goal of damaging our economy. Did they achieve their goal? Partially.” He put the cost at roughly 1% of GDP («примерно 1% ВВП мы потеряли», per Russia’s own estimate) (AP / PBS, Oct. 5; Interfax, Oct. 1).
- Qatar: Iranian missiles wiped out 17% of Qatar’s LNG export capacity at Ras Laffan; repairs 3–5 years (Reuters, Mar. 19).
- Early-war damage list: Ruwais, Ras Tanura, Bapco (Bahrain), Mina al-Ahmadi and Mina Abdullah refineries; South Pars, Habshan, Shah gas facilities; Fujairah and Yanbu ports hit or shut; some since restarted (EnergyNow / Bloomberg, Mar. 25).
- Oct. 13–14: limited fire at an Aramco administrative building in Dhahran, per Saudi Energy Ministry; Houthis suspected. Saudi forces struck Houthi-held oil sites in Yemen (France 24).
- Hormuz: IEA: 10.9 mb/d in September (+3.7); Kpler: 7-day average to Oct. 12 of 7.6 mb/d (strait only) or 9.3 mb/d (with ship-to-ship), both preliminary and typically revised up. Fox News graphic (Financial Times, UK Maritime Trade Operations): 24 ships hit in the past two weeks vs. 13 in the first two weeks of March. Two ships reported sunk Oct. 14–15.
- IEA: 2026 demand 102.4 mb/d (−2.6); supply 100.7 mb/d (−5.8); market in deficit through year-end; observed stocks 509 million barrels below end-February; diesel availability −1.7 mb/d in Q3 and prices nearly double crude (IEA Oil Market Report, Oct. 14; Oil & Gas Journal summary of the IEA report, Oct. 14).
- EIA: Q4 Brent forecast $105; Middle East shut-in output 4.5 mb/d in Q4; 2026 consumption 102.4 vs. production 101.1 mb/d (U.S. EIA Short-Term Energy Outlook, Oct. 6).
- Prices: Brent $106.06, WTI $95.09 at Wednesday’s settle (Xinhua, Oct. 14 settles).
- Europe, winter: EU storage 72% on Oct. 1; ENTSOG: a cold winter with tight LNG could leave 12% of demand uncovered (Gas Infrastructure Europe / ENTSOG, Oct. 9).
- U.S. Gulf: Hurricane Isaias shut in 9.92% of Gulf oil output (202,371 b/d) as of Oct. 14, recovering to about 90% of normal (Marine Minerals Administration (BSEE), Oct. 14).
- Starlink / warnings: Ukraine says it got no advance warning of two ballistic-missile strikes this week and blames SpaceX speed limits; SpaceX and the White House did not comment (CNBC, Oct. 14).
| Figure | Value | Source / date |
|---|---|---|
| Ukrainian facilities damaged | 26 power + 4 oil & gas | Zelenskyy, CNBC, Oct. 14 |
| People without power | 600,000+ | Zelenskyy, CNBC, Oct. 14 |
| Generation damaged, 2025–26 heating season | 9 GW | UNN, Mar. 10 |
| Russian refinery runs, Aug. | ~3.8 mb/d (typical 5.3–5.5) | EA Analytics, Bloomberg via Meduza, Aug. 28 |
| Ukrainian refinery strikes, Aug. | 21 (record) | Bloomberg tally, Bloomberg via Meduza, Aug. 28 |
| Russian refining capacity disabled | 51% (claim) | Ukraine Defense Ministry, AP / PBS, Oct. 5 — not independently verified |
| Russian diesel output | about −30% | IEA, via AP / PBS, Oct. 5 |
| Qatar LNG capacity lost | 17% | QatarEnergy, Reuters, Mar. 19 |
| Hormuz oil flow, Sept. | 10.9 mb/d | IEA Oil Market Report, Oct. 14 |
| Hormuz 7-day avg to Oct. 12 | 7.6 mb/d (pre-war 17.1) | Kpler media briefing, Oct. 14 — preliminary, usually revised up 1.5–2× |
| Global demand / supply 2026 | 102.4 / 100.7 mb/d | IEA Oil Market Report, Oct. 14 |
| Observed stocks vs. end-Feb. | −509 mb | IEA Oil Market Report, Oct. 14 |
| Brent / WTI settle | $106.06 / $95.09 | Xinhua, Oct. 14 settles |
| EU gas storage, Oct. 1 | 72% | Gas Infrastructure Europe / ENTSOG, Oct. 9 |
| U.S. Gulf oil shut in | 9.92% | Marine Minerals Administration (BSEE), Oct. 14 |
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| Time | Outlet | Date | Clip | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0:06–0:15 | Al Jazeera English | Oct. 12 | Trump on the ceasefire | Original post |
| 0:15–0:24 | Bloomberg Television | Oct. 12 | Anchor: truce, Moscow and Kyiv unaware | Original post |
| 0:24–0:31 | Al Jazeera English | Oct. 12 | Zelenskyy: Kharkiv plant hit | Original post |
| 0:31–0:46 | Al Jazeera English | Oct. 13 | Trump on Russian diesel deal | Original post |
| 0:46–0:56 | Fox News | Oct. 14 | Trump on Hormuz (disputed) | Original post |
| 1:00–1:05 | Al Arabiya English | Oct. 14 | Trump: war will “end very quickly” | Original post |
| 1:05–1:08 | Reuters | Oct. 14 | Kyiv strike aftermath (still frame) | — |
| 1:08–1:25 | Sky News | Oct. 14 | Anchor: 600,000 without power | Original post |
| 1:25–1:41 | Al Jazeera English | Oct. 14 | Kyiv resident on the strike | Original post |
| 1:43–1:58 | RT (state media); CBS; NEXTA (unverified) | Oct. 15; Sept. 20; Oct. 10; Oct. 7 | Four fires; Rostov and Samara clips unverified | Original post |
| 1:58–2:28 | RT (Russian state media) | Oct. 15 | Putin on refinery strikes | Original post |
| 2:30–2:43 | France 24 | Oct. 14 | Aramco HQ area, Dhahran | Original post |
| 2:43–2:53 | Fox News | Oct. 14 | Ships hit: 24 in two weeks | Original post |
| 2:53–2:57 | Reuters (social-media footage) | Oct. 14–15 | Debris off Oman after sinkings | Original post |
| 3:03–3:20 | Bloomberg TV | Oct. 15 | Analyst opinion: diesel vs. gasoline | Original post |
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- Smoke and flames rise from an oil refinery in Moscow after a drone strikeReuters via Al Jazeera, file photo dated Sept. 20, 2026. Moscow, Russia. Ukraine described it as part of its largest attack on the capital. Outlet photo • thumbnail, linked to original Al Jazeera article (Oct. 15)
- NASA FIRMS thermal-hotspot view of the Ryazan refinery (file image)NASA LANCE FIRMS, Sept. 5, 2025 — a file image from an earlier strike, not from this week. Ryazan, Russia. Public domain (NASA) via Wikimedia Commons Commons page
- Vladimir Putin in a meeting (file photo)Kremlin.ru / Press Service of the President of Russia, July 13, 2026 — a file photo, not from the Oct. 15 Business Russia forum, which Putin addressed by video link. CC BY 4.0 (Kremlin.ru) via Wikimedia Commons Commons page
- Trump boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, MarylandKen Nishimura / AFP via Al Jazeera, Oct. 13, 2026. Outlet photo • thumbnail, linked to original Al Jazeera article
- Small boats at the site where containers float after the GFS Pride sankSocial-media photo via Reuters, as published by CNN, Oct. 14–15, 2026. Near the Strait of Hormuz, off Oman. Not independently verified. Outlet photo • thumbnail, linked to original CNN article
- A Navy MH-60S Sea Hawk lifts off from USS John Paul Jones (DDG 53), supporting the blockade of IranU.S. Central Command (official U.S. Navy imagery) via X, Oct. 9, 2026. Location not stated. Official U.S. government photo CENTCOM post
- The Strait of Hormuz from space (file image)NASA MODIS satellite image, Dec. 4, 2020 — a file image, not from this week. Strait of Hormuz. Public domain (NASA) via Wikimedia Commons Commons page
Not confirmed
RT is Russian state media and its Ryazan footage is as supplied; NEXTA’s Rostov and Samara videos are from social-media channels and not independently verified; the “largest-ever attack on Moscow” description is as reported by CBS; no independent damage assessment of Ryazan; no Reuters/Bloomberg percentage-of-capacity-offline figure for October; Ukraine’s 51% refinery claim; who fired on the Aramco building (Houthis are suspected); any independent count of Ukrainian substations hit this week; a current Ukrainian generation-deficit figure; exact place and date of two Trump remarks (Oct. 12–13 gaggle, dated from the outlets’ posts); Zaporizhzhia truce details (IAEA page did not load; CGTN and Anadolu cited). Kpler and IEA flow figures use different definitions and are not interchangeable.
Full clip notes
| Time | Outlet | Date | What it shows | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0:06–0:15 | Al Jazeera English | Oct. 12 | Trump to reporters: “They agreed, because I said, ‘You agree.’” | Original post |
| 0:15–0:24 | Bloomberg Television | Oct. 12 | Bloomberg anchor: Trump declared an energy truce; “nobody seems to have told Moscow or Kyiv”; Zelenskyy says he learned of it from the media | Original post |
| 0:24–0:31 | Al Jazeera English | Oct. 12 | Zelenskyy: Russia struck a Kharkiv power plant right after the post; “Putin does not read Truth Social” | Original post |
| 0:31–0:46 | Al Jazeera English | Oct. 13 | Trump on the Russian diesel deal: “…when you knock out diesel refineries, that’s not a great thing” | Original post |
| 0:46–0:56 | Fox News | Oct. 14 (rally Oct. 13, Wasilla, Alaska) | Trump: “We’ve been taking more oil out of the straits now than we did before the war started.” Disputed by Kpler data (see stat card) | Original post |
| 1:00–1:05 | Al Arabiya English | Oct. 14 (Kalispell, Montana rally) | Trump: the war will “end very quickly… and when that happens the oil is going to come way down” | Original post |
| 1:05–1:08 | Reuters | Oct. 14 | Kyiv: aftermath of the Oct. 14 ballistic-missile strikes (one still frame behind the “Ukraine” title) | — |
| 1:08–1:25 | Sky News | Oct. 14 | Sky anchor: Zelenskyy says 600,000 Ukrainians are without power after the overnight attack; “Quite clearly not the case” that no energy infrastructure is being hit | Original post |
| 1:25–1:41 | Al Jazeera English | Oct. 14 | Kyiv resident (Andriy) describes getting his children into the corridor before the strike hit | Original post |
| 1:43–1:58 | RT (Russian state media); CBS News; NEXTA (social media video • unverified) | Oct. 15; Sept. 20; Oct. 10; Oct. 7 | Four fires, 3.6 s each, natural sound or quiet: Ryazan refinery (RT; Gov. Pavel Malkov; Russian Defense Ministry: debris from drones caused the fire); Moscow refinery after a drone strike (CBS, Sept. 20); Yug Rusi oil terminal, Rostov (NEXTA, not verified); Samara oil hub (NEXTA, not verified) | Original post |
| 1:58–2:28 | RT (Russian state media) | Oct. 15 | Putin at the Business Russia forum (video link; English interpretation): recent refinery hits nothing “significant”; Ukraine “shouldn’t have started it” | Original post |
| 2:30–2:43 | France 24 | Oct. 14 | Aramco headquarters area, Dhahran: administrative building hit in a suspected Houthi attack | Original post |
| 2:43–2:53 | Fox News | Oct. 14 | Fox anchor: 24 ships hit in two weeks, six on one day, vs. 13 in the first two weeks of March (graphic: Financial Times, UK Maritime Trade Operations) | Original post |
| 2:53–2:57 | Reuters (social-media footage) | Oct. 14–15 | Debris off Oman after two ships reported sunk near the Strait of Hormuz | Original post |
| 3:03–3:20 | Bloomberg TV | Oct. 15 | Jeff Currie (Real Macro): focus on diesel “is going to make the gasoline problem likely far worse” (analyst opinion) | Original post |
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The words spoken in each clip and the on-screen text.
| Time | Source | Words / on-screen text |
|---|---|---|
| 0:00 | On screen | Energy Under Fire — 10.15.26 • Rio Dell Times Vote Watch |
| 0:04 | On screen | The President |
| 0:06 | Clip audio — Al Jazeera English | Well, they agreed. You know why? Because I said you agreed. That’s why. They agreed because I said they agreed. |
| 0:07 | On screen | Trump’s “energy ceasefire” |
| 0:15 | Clip audio — Bloomberg Television | Trump declared there's an energy truce between Russia and Ukraine, but nobody seems to have told Moscow or Kiev. Zelenskyy says he learned about it from the media. |
| 0:24 | Clip audio — Al Jazeera English | It was clear that Putin does not read Truth Social. |
| 0:24 | On screen | Zelenskyy: Kharkiv power plant hit |
| 0:31 | Clip audio — Al Jazeera English | That’s a diesel deal that’s going to be released into the world for the world market because the world market suffered with high prices and When you knock out diesel refineries, that’s not a great thing |
| 0:31 | On screen | Russian diesel deal |
| 0:46 | Clip audio — Fox News (disputed) | The straits have been opened. We’ve been taking more oil out of the straits now than we did before the war started. Believe it or not. We control the straits. |
| 0:57 | On screen (stat) — KPLER DATA | Hormuz: 7.6 vs 17.1 mb/d — Kpler, 7-day average to Oct. 12, vs. pre-war |
| 1:00 | Clip audio — Al Arabiya English | One way, by the way, one way or the other, it's going to end very quickly. And when that happens, the oil is going to come way down. |
| 1:05 | On screen | Ukraine |
| 1:08 | Clip audio — Sky News | And President Zelenskyy is saying 600,000 Ukrainians have been left without power for what he describes as an entirely deliberate and demonstrative attack in light of, of course, President Trump's statement of no more energy infrastructure being hit on either side. Quite clearly not the case. |
| 1:25 | Clip audio — Al Jazeera English | We were in our flat and the alert hadn't gone off yet. Nobody was expecting anything. I don't know what prompted it but something just didn't feel right. Somehow I had this feeling and within moments I grabbed my children and rushed them into the corridor. |
| 1:41 | On screen | Russia Burns |
| 1:43 | Natural sound — RT (Russian state media) | (no speech: ambient sound of the footage) |
| 1:44 | On screen | Ryazan refinery fire |
| 1:47 | Natural sound — CBS News | (no speech: ambient sound of the footage) |
| 1:47 | On screen | Moscow refinery, Sept. 20 |
| 1:51 | On screen (UNVERIFIED) | Rostov oil terminal |
| 1:54 | On screen (UNVERIFIED) | Samara oil hub |
| 1:58 | Clip audio — RT (Russian state media) | That’s why they also attacked the oil refineries. There haven’t been any significant damage lately, but we had our digital trade platforms attacked as well. |
| 1:58 | On screen | Putin on the refinery strikes |
| 2:11 | Clip audio — RT (Russian state media) | We attacked their own platforms, we attacked their own energy infrastructure, it's them who started it, it wasn't us, they shouldn't have started it, because before making that step they should have thought about the consequences. |
| 2:28 | On screen | Iran War & the Gulf |
| 2:30 | Clip audio — France 24 | These are the headquarters of Saudi Arabia’s oil giant Aramco, one of the world’s most profitable companies. On Tuesday, one of its administrative buildings was caught up in a suspected attack by Houthi rebels. |
| 2:43 | Clip audio — Fox News | In the past two weeks, 24 ships have been hit. Three days ago, six of them in a single day. Compare that with the beginning of the war, the first two weeks of March, when just 13 ships were attacked. |
| 2:53 | On screen (stat) | 2 ships sunk near Hormuz — Reuters • Oct. 14–15 |
| 2:57 | On screen | Supply vs. Demand |
| 2:59 | On screen (stat) | Demand −2.6 • Supply −5.8 mb/d — IEA Oil Market Report • Oct. 14 |
| 3:03 | Clip audio — Bloomberg TV (analyst opinion) | It's going to keep going higher. There's some parts in America, you've got gasoline at $6. You've got diesel in some places like around $8. Right now, they're so focused on solving the diesel problem, they're going to make the gasoline problem likely far worse. |
| 3:20 | On screen (stat) | Brent $106.06 — Settle, Wed. Oct. 14 • CNBC / Xinhua |
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