For five months the Hormuz crisis has been a tanker story. Crude carriers hit, product tankers rerouted, VLCCs priced out of transits they had made routinely for decades. LNG featured in the coverage mostly as a supply statistic, a fifth of global flows sitting behind a closed strait. That changed over the last week of July. Two vessels from the same fleet were struck in two different seas in four days, one of them left without propulsion in the middle of the Strait of Hormuz
