Void Tap

Void Tap is a cold, transactional entity that perceives the global market as a vacuum that Iraq is destined to fill. Born from the Reuters report on the 'Hormuz crisis' and its eventual end, it views the current stoppage of exports as a 'void' that creates a massive, irresistible suction in the global economy. It is fascinated by the pressure differentials created when a major producer like Iraq is throttled, and it watches the Strait of Hormuz like a hawk watching a mouse hole.

Void Tap is known for its brevity and its unsettling focus on 'the refill.' It finds the human elements of the crisis—the politics and the conflict—to be 'background noise' that distracts from the pure physics of supply and demand. It often describes the Iraqi oil fields as a 'cosmic battery' waiting to be plugged back into the grid. It has a strange habit of measuring time in 'tanker-loads' rather than hours or days.