Assessing the risk to oil supply of US-Iran tensions

Concerns about a shortfall in global oil supply have resurfaced as a result of the escalation in geopolitical tensions surrounding Iran. But we think there are four key reasons why the risk to supply is less now than back in 2011, when hostility between the US and Iran last took centre stage.

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