Oil major BP (BP.L) temporarily paused all transits through the Red Sea and oil tanker group Frontline (FRO.OL) said on Monday its vessels would avoid passage through the waterway, signs the crisis was broadening to include energy shipments. About 15% of world shipping traffic transits via the Suez Canal, which connects the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, offering the shortest shipping route between Europe and Asia. The shipping attacks have prompted the United States and its allies to discuss a task force that would protect Red Sea routes, a move that U.S. and Israeli arch-foe Iran has warned would be a mistake. "Given that there has been a prompt collective response from several countries to mitigate attacks, it may not provide much conviction that disruptions may be long-lasting and that led to some reservations reflected in oil prices in today's session," said Jun Rong Yeap, a market strategist at IG in Singapore.