<h1>Energy supply disruption raises oil prices and fuels market volatility with implications for fuel costs and economic risk.</h1> Oil prices rose above one hundred dollars per barrel after conflict involving Iran disrupted production and shipping through the Persian Gulf, reducing tanker transits via the Strait of Hormuz, prompting production cuts and storage fill-ups among regional producers, and following attacks on oil and gas facilities that tightened global crude availability and heightened market volatility.