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Tajikistan announced that it is now receiving oil and petroleum products from Iran, opening a potential new energy source for a country whose fuel supplies have long been dominated by Russia. The deliveries began in late August, Tajikistan's Energy and Water Resources Ministry told the Asia-Plus news agency, following…
Physical oil markets tighten sharply as Dated Brent surges above $120 despite ICE Brent slipping toward $101. Friday, October 02, 2026 The European diesel stock release, droned tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, and China reinstating its refined product export ban have all played their part in this week’s extremely vola…
Venezuela’s oil exports fell nearly 9% in September to 1.08 million barrels per day as soaring tanker costs forced traders to demand steeper discounts and delayed cargoes leaving the country. Global trading houses, including Vitol and Trafigura, pressed PDVSA for better terms as freight costs chew into margins, and ta…
Canada is fast-tracking a proposed 1 million-barrel-per-day oil pipeline to the Pacific coast, giving Alberta another route to Asian buyers and another way around its overwhelming dependence on the U.S. market. Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday that Ottawa will list the project as one of national interest, send…
Indian refining companies are looking for tankers for hire to carry oil out of the Persian Gulf via the Strait of Hormuz, according to a Bloomberg report citing unnamed sources. Two shipping companies have won tenders for Persian Gulf oil, the sources told Bloomberg, while another two submitted bids but their tenders …
Three oil tankers have been hit by unknown projectiles while transiting the Strait of Hormuz this week, shipping intelligence and security companies say. Three Liberia-flagged tankers with their transponders switched off were transiting the Strait on Tuesday and Wednesday when they were hit by projectiles, shipping in…
The key OPEC+ producers are set to leave their current crude oil output quotas unchanged for November at a meeting this weekend, anonymous sources familiar with the plans told Reuters on Wednesday. The Gulf producers in OPEC+ have been producing and exporting much lower volumes sin ce the Iran war crippled traffic thr…
India needs to boost domestic oil and gas exploration to enhance its energy security amid supply disruptions that drive energy prices higher, according to a senior official at state-owned exploration and production company Oil India Limited (OIL). “Disruptions to global supply chains and major energy corridors can hav…
Saudi Arabia has restarted crude oil loadings at the Yanbu port on the Red Sea after the East-West pipeline resumed partial service, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing vessel-tracking data and trade sources. Saudi Arabia shut down the East-West onshore pipeline for two weeks following drone attacks that damaged pumpi…
The U.S.–Iran and Russia–Ukraine wars are more than regional or military conflicts. They are exposing weaknesses in the global energy and economic system and demonstrating that energy security can no longer be seen as independent of financial security, transportation, military security, strategic autonomy, and even ti…
Refinery production figures, export contracts and tanker routes are now off-limits to public reporting in Russia, under a decree Putin signed Monday, Reuters reported. The Kremlin points to unfriendly actions by Washington and its allies as the reason, and the restrictions took effect on signing, with the government g…
Crude oil exports from the Middle East have risen to 12.8 million barrels daily this month, preliminary data from Kpler cited by Reuters has suggested. The rebound was led by Saudi Arabia, which redirected oil flows from the west to the east, where it loads the crude on tankers in the Gulf of Oman via ship-to-ship tra…
Saudi Aramco has restarted its East-West pipeline (Petroline) less than two weeks after attacks knocked out the 7 million bpd system, restoring at least some of the route that has carried the bulk of Saudi crude around the Strait of Hormuz since the war began. Pumping has resumed at reduced rates, with Aramco reported…
November WTI crude oil futures spent the week trading a possible reopening of the Strait of Hormuz against the risk that shipping conditions have not normalized. The contract fell to $88.67 Tuesday after reports that Iran could reopen the Strait within seven days, then recovered to $96.78 Thursday as the diplomatic st…
Only nine commodity carriers passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, eight of them exiting the waterway, Reuters reported in its now regular update on tanker numbers in the strait. The Thursday total is a further decline on already depressed numbers that have now gone from double to single digits, with the 10…
Capacity for ship-to-ship transfers of crude oil off the coast of Oman has reached its limits after Saudi Arabia diverted its flows from the port of Yanbu amid Houthi attacks, Reuters has reported, citing unnamed trading sources and analysts. The report said Saudi Arabia has sold some 60 million barrels of crude, to b…
Oil is increasingly getting more expensive before it even reaches a refinery. Freight now accounts for roughly a fifth of the cost of a crude cargo, turning the tanker market into a major driver of the price buyers pay. At the center of the squeeze is the very large crude carrier, or VLCC, the supertanker that can mov…
Saudi Arabia’s workaround for the Strait of Hormuz now carries a war-risk insurance bill nearly as expensive as sending tankers through Hormuz itself. Quoted premiums for Saudi-linked tankers calling at the Red Sea port of Yanbu have tripled to around 3% of a vessel’s value from less than 1% in early July, according t…
Russia has begun commercial crude exports from Rosneft’s Vostok Oil project, putting barrels on the water from its new Arctic terminal after years of sanctions, investor exits, and construction delays. Three ice-class tankers loaded about 250,000 metric tons of crude from the Bukhta Sever terminal on the Taimyr Penins…
Saudi Arabia has sold almost 100 million barrels of crude to Asian buyers via the Strait of Hormuz since the middle of last week, when it pivoted to the chokepoint it wanted to avoid with the East-West pipeline to the Red Sea. With the pipeline out of service, the Kingdom has sold 100 million barrels of crude, which i…
The U.S. government is ready to support Argentina’s key LNG project by lending up to $6 billion to the project led by Argentina’s energy group YPF in partnership with Italy’s Eni and Emirati energy firm XRG. As part of a newly launched Andes-Atlantic Corridor, a joint U.S-Argentinian initiative to strengthen and moder…
Crude oil prices took a dip today amid reports that there was willingness for peace in the Middle East on both sides of the conflict. The dip partially offset gains made earlier in the week, keeping oil benchmarks elevated. At the time of writing, Brent crude was trading at $102.20 per barrel, and West Texas Intermedi…
Ship-to-ship transfers and pipelines bypassing the Strait of Hormuz, where available, have become the primary export route for most Middle Eastern oil. Oil producers in the region have demonstrated what some see as remarkable adaptability to the new circumstances. In fact, it is a matter of survival. And it comes at a…
Uzbekistan is intent on establishing logistics lily pads on the shores of the Caspian and Black Seas to advance Tashkent’s Middle Corridor trade agenda. A statement published by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s office on September 21 revealed that Uzbek and Georgian officials have already signed an agreement to establis…
Only three commodity vessels moved through the Strait of Hormuz in the past day, preliminary tanker-tracking data by Kpler showed on Wednesday, as the oil market weighs the potential resumption of U.S.-Iran talks against continued disruptions in the Middle East. The three commodity vessels, which included one Panamax …
Saudi pipeline flows resume, but soaring freight and diesel prices signal persistent oil market tightness. Oil Freight Costs Explode as Gulf Risk Traps the VLCC Fleet - The ultimate showdown of the US-Iran conflict seems to be unfolding in the freight market as costs of VLCC tankers continue to push higher into unchar…
Saudi Arabia has restarted its East-West oil pipeline, restoring at least some flow through the 4-million-barrel-per-day route that had become the kingdom’s main escape hatch around the Strait of Hormuz. The pipeline is running at a low rate for now, according to Reuters sources, with Aramco working to return flows to…
Crude oil production at Libya’s largest oilfield, Sharara, has slumped over the past day after an armed military group closed a valve on the pipeline that carries crude oil from the field to the Zawiya port for exports, in yet another global supply scare amid ongoing disruptions in the Middle East. An armed group has …
A conflict that has simmered in Yemen for years has flared in recent weeks, with consequences that could reach far beyond the Middle East. The Houthi rebels have seized nearly all of Yemen’s Red Sea coastline, giving the Iran-aligned militant group control of the Bab al-Mandab Strait, a key chokepoint for global trade…
Despite the recent decline in crude oil prices due to lower-than-feared disruption of Saudi exports, supply-side risks remain elevated, and not only in the Middle East, analysts at ING Bank also said on Tuesday. Oil prices dropped on Friday and Monday, with Brent Crude falling to $100 per barrel from $108 a barrel hit…