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The Middle East war is scrambling markets and threatening to remake the energy industry.

"You'd see a tax for every ship that goes through" Hormuz if Trump quits now, Gen. Jim Mattis said.

TerraPower recently became the first company to secure a permit from the NRC to construct a full, commercial advanced nuclear reactor.

Jarrod Agen, the executive director of the White House National Energy Dominance Council, said he has not received pushback to the administration's calls to drill more amid the war in Iran.

The announcement marks the latest blow by the administration against the U.S. offshore wind industry.

Mike Wirth said it will take some time to rebuild inventories and supply chains after the Strait of Hormuz fully opens.

"Markets do what markets do," he said at the CERAWeek by S&P Global conference in Houston.

Industry executives are gathering in the U.S. energy capital this week as uncertainty mounts and crude costs soar.

At the world's largest energy industry gathering, there's one question on top of everyone's minds.

Traders are placing wagers on the likelihood of disasters, activists being jailed and oil depots exploding.