A spokesperson at the Department of Energy has said staff were ?responsible for a quickly-deleted post on Energy Secretary ?Chris Wright’s official X account that had ?incorrectly stated that the U.S. Navy ?had escorted an oil tanker through the Strait ?of Hormuz. “A video clip was deleted from Secretary Wright’s official X account ?after it was determined to be incorrectly captioned by Department ?of Energy staff,” a department spokesperson told Reuters in an emailed statement. The post had raised hopes in the global oil industry of resumed oil and gas shipments through the crucial waterway.
