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Middle East Oil Producers Eye S. Korean Reserve Bases Amid Hormuz Crisis
Several Gulf producers are seeking storage as their tanks near capacity, and South Korea’s reserve bases offer 146 million barrels of underground capacity.
South Korea is drawing growing interest from Middle Eastern oil producers seeking to store crude oil at the country's petroleum reserve bases, the world's sixth largest, amid a prolonged blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, a South Korean official and an expert on the matter have said.