Pay Attention to Ship Seizures, Not Threats to Close Strait of Hormuz
1/4 In this new INSIGHT, we assess Iran's threats to shipping in the Persian Gulf and the world's most vital chokepoint. The work is in collaboration with the super TankerTrackers.com, Inc.. Here's the link that takes…

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Those two tankers are boring us to tears.

A record (?) 8 pairs of Ship-to-Ship transfers totaling 16 million barrels of Iranian crude oil worth $1.4 billion (pre-discount) were visually identified today in the Riau archipelago in the South China Sea; all bound for China.

This is happening on the back of a recent record…

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Exactly as David said. We too run into situations where the press might not have a good understanding of how the price cap works and then they’re about to write negatively about how the EU imports fuel which India refined from Russian crude. The whole point of the cap is to make…

We've noticed a 60km long spill off the coast of Kuantan, Malaysia in today's satellite imagery. Based on the two imagery sources we've compared against (taken only 3 minutes apart), the spill may have reached shore 5 hours ago.

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Two OPEC member states, Kuwait and Nigeria, both launched very large oil refineries fairly recently in order to convert crude oil into usable products such as gasoline, diesel, plastics, and everything else in our lives.

On the one hand, Kuwait's crude oil exports (purple)…

It's time for austerity measures in the cocoa corner.

#Iraq 's PM محمد شياع السوداني has received #Turkiye 's president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at Baghdad Int'l airport. This is Erdogan's first visit to 🇮🇶 in 13 years.

Among agenda items is the restart of north 🇮🇶 crude exports through 🇹🇷's Ceyhan port, sources told Argus Media.
#oott

So far this year (particularly over the past two months), nearly 40 million barrels of oil exports deriving from #Russia and #Kazakhstan have departed the #BlackSea under irregular circumstances; and an escalation at that.

Most of the vessels had their Automatic Identification…

The Iranian 'spy ship' BEHSHAD (9167289), which had a hand in the Red Sea Crisis by assisting Houthis in launching attacks against commercial and naval vessels over the past several months, has now returned to Iran after a 3-year deployment. We were able to verify her in…

#Iran fires air defense batteries at Isfahan air base and nuclear site after drones spotted apnews.com/article/iran-i…

Experts react: The US just reimposed sanctions on Venezuela. What does this mean for energy markets and Venezuela’s election? - ⁦Atlantic Council⁩ ⁦Global Energy Center⁩

Check out my contribution on #oil markets & who will be impacted the most atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atla…

BREAKING: Biden administration to end sanctions waiver on Venezuelan oil #OOTT

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CNBC: ‘Iran is in for the long haul’ with oil tanker hijacks, expert says, as U.S. considers more sanctions

(Thank you Lori Ann LaRocco for reaching out to us for this story)

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