-- The global energy landscape faces a protracted recovery, with the head of the International Energy Agency warning on Friday that it will take roughly two years to restore Middle Eastern output lost to the ongoing regional conflict, Reuters reported.
Supply gap is now hitting Asian markets after no new tankers were loaded in March, Reuters reported, citing IEA Chief Fatih Birol in an interview with the newspaper Neue Zuercher Zeitung.
He warned that if the strategic waterway does not reopen shortly, the world must prepare for "significantly higher energy prices" as current inventories are depleted, as per the report.
Addressing the possibility of further emergency measures, Birol confirmed that the agency remains on high alert following its massive strategic reserve release in March.
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