{"id":90428,"date":"2026-04-30T05:12:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T05:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/90428\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T05:12:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T05:12:28","slug":"iran-is-flooded-with-so-much-unsold-oil-that-its-stashing-it-in-derelict-tanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/90428\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Is Flooded With So Much Unsold Oil That It\u2019s Stashing It in Derelict Tanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-type=\"paragraph\" data=\"[object Object]\" class=\"css-i0p3hh epyej6v0\">Iran is scrambling to find new ways to store its oil, hoping to avoid a crippling production shutdown as a <a data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/livecoverage\/iran-war-strait-of-hormuz-2026?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">U.S. naval blockade<\/a> bottles up its exports and negotiations to end the war remain deadlocked.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\" data=\"[object Object]\" class=\"css-i0p3hh epyej6v0\">With oil backing up at home, Iran is reviving derelict sites known as \u201c<a data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/livecoverage\/iran-war-strait-of-hormuz-2026\/card\/u-s-blockade-pushes-iran-toward-extreme-measures-to-keep-pumping-oil-dy8LdflRMCkzFmc6j0Xx?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">junk storage<\/a>,\u201d using improvised containers and trying to ship crude by rail to China. The unusual steps are aimed at delaying an infrastructure crisis and blunting Washington\u2019s leverage in the standoff over the Strait of Hormuz. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-16aepit e1jdulti0\">Copyright \u00a92026 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran is scrambling to find new ways to store its oil, hoping to avoid a crippling production shutdown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[488,19461,19455,5955,154,31991,911,897,31998,19463,5966,31990,5953,19462,34,31993,31994,31992,49,857,1737,213,31985,5954,31986,19450,31996,31988,31995,31987,19456,19457,31989,31997,2042,5965,69,51,5967],"class_list":{"0":"post-90428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tehran","8":"tag-asia","9":"tag-corporate","10":"tag-corporate-industrial-news","11":"tag-developing-economies","12":"tag-energy","13":"tag-erica-downs","14":"tag-fossil-fuels","15":"tag-gas","16":"tag-gas-extraction","17":"tag-gas-upstream-operations","18":"tag-gcapi","19":"tag-hamid-hosseini","20":"tag-hard-commodities","21":"tag-industrial-news","22":"tag-iran","23":"tag-linki18-wp-wsj-0003531296","24":"tag-linki4-wp-wsj-0003531296","25":"tag-linki5-wp-wsj-0003531296","26":"tag-middle-east","27":"tag-middle-east-and-north-africa","28":"tag-north-america","29":"tag-oil","30":"tag-oil-extraction","31":"tag-oil-gas","32":"tag-oil-gas-extraction","33":"tag-oil-gas-upstream-operations","34":"tag-product","35":"tag-product-service-disruptions","36":"tag-products","37":"tag-products-services","38":"tag-risk-topics-geopolitics","39":"tag-risk-topics-supply-chain","40":"tag-sanam-vakil","41":"tag-service-disruptions","42":"tag-services","43":"tag-synd","44":"tag-tehran","45":"tag-united-states","46":"tag-wsj-pro-wsj-com"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}