Iran looks to begin as soon as next month crude oil exports from the Jask terminal on the Sea of Oman, without the need to have tankers travel through the Strait of Hormuz, a top industry official said on Wednesday. Iran began sending crude oil through the Goureh-Jask Crude Oil Pipeline project, which will allow it to bypass the critical oil chokepoint the Strait of Hormuz, according to Masoud Karbasian, chief executive of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC). “After the oil reaches Jask, which takes less than a month, in the near future, the official opening ceremony and commissioning of this national project will be held in the presence of the President,” Karbasian said, as carried by the Shana news service of the Iranian oil ministry. According to Iran, the pipeline “aims to transfer one million barrels of crude oil per day, store and export it through a […]