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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…
Saudi Aramco officials have informally told at least three Asian refiners that they would soon be able to pick up crude oil cargoes at the Yanbu port on the Red Sea, anonymous traders with knowledge of the matter told Bloomberg on Tuesday. Saudi Arabia has halted loadings at the Yanbu port, its key export terminal tha…
Satellite images gathered by Bloomberg show supertankers with capacity for 14 million barrels at Saudi Arabia's Gulf export terminals over the weekend, the highest tanker count observed since at least June, according to data compiled from the European Union's Sentinel-2 satellite. Overall Hormuz traffic kept falling o…
One of the world’s biggest oil traders, Trafigura, is spinning off its supertanker business in a new company. Trafigura on Monday said it had established a new, dedicated group company, Volare Shipping Ltd, to own, operate, and scale a modern fleet of oil tankers. The fleet will be commercially managed by Trafigura’s …
Commodity vessels traversing the Strait of Hormuz declined further, with just a dozen commodity vessels in total making the passage this weekend, Reuters has reported. This compares to 35 tankers and other commodity carriers passing the chokepoint a week earlier. The data includes only tankers that move with their tra…
Global maritime and energy markets are currently showing two significant developments. Both indicate they should not be treated as separate market stories, but as an intertwined sector. Abu Dhabi’s ADNOC investment arm, XRG, is reportedly considering acquiring up to 50% of Energos Infrastructure, a floating-LNG compan…
The Middle East crisis has reverberated through key global shipping chokepoints thousands of miles away from the Strait of Hormuz. Following the crippled tanker traffic through the Middle East’s main oil and LNG export outlet, the Panama Canal and the Suez Canal have seen an increase in energy commodity cargo traffic …
The artificial intelligence energy crisis is catalyzing the development pipeline for space-based solar energy. As the world rushes to build up more energy production capacity in a scramble to keep up with skyrocketing demand from data center hyperscalers, the public and private sectors alike are increasingly adopting …
Kazakhstan intends to increase natural gas imports from Russia. The purchase price may be low, but the overall cost could turn out to be steep because of pending new US sanctions on Russia. Under a supplementary agreement signed with the Russian energy giant Gazprom, Kazakhstan has agreed to purchase about 11 billion …
Saudi Aramco has told European term customers they will receive no Saudi crude in October, even as the kingdom pushes roughly 60 million barrels back through the Persian Gulf after damage to its East-West pipeline. At least two European refiners were told their October allocations are zero, Bloomberg reported Friday. …
Saudi Aramco shifts crude exports to the Persian Gulf, easing supply fears and pushing Brent below $105. Friday, September 18, 2026 Last week’s market panic about the 7 million b/d East-West pipeline remaining offline for weeks gave way to a slightly more nuanced outlook this week, with Saudi Aramco re-orienting all i…
At least two LNG carriers have transited the Strait of Hormuz so far this week, while two others were detected to have engaged in ship-to-ship transfers outside the Strait offshore Oman, tanker-tracking and satellite data compiled by Bloomberg showed on Friday. The uptick in LNG cargoes managing to exit the Strait of …
Japanese refiners have procured enough crude oil to last them through November, the head of the Petroleum Association of Japan (PAJ) said on Friday, amid yet another twist in supply availability from the Middle East. The temporary shutdown of the East-West oil pipeline in Saudi Arabia following attacks last week added…
November WTI crude oil futures were trading at $96.35 at 0:51 GMT early Friday, up $0.49, or 0.51%, for the week. The contract traded as high as $101.69 and as low as $94.64. The range reflects a market caught between broken Saudi infrastructure and an export workaround that only moves part of the lost volume. Saudi A…
Saudi Arabia has sold as many as 60 million barrels of crude oil from the Persian Gulf port of Ras Tanura for September and October loadings outside the Strait of Hormuz via ship-to-ship transfers, trade sources told Reuters on Friday. Saudi oil giant Aramco has offered buyers of the crude from the Ras Tanura port to …
Only four commodity vessels were detected to have moved inbound or out of the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, shipping data showed early on Friday, while oil shipping options out of the Middle East became fewer with the closure of the Saudi pipeline to the Red Sea port of Yanbu. Three vessels moved into the Persian Gulf…
The temporary closure of the key onshore pipeline Saudi Arabia uses to bypass the Strait of Hormuz has added another shock to an oil market already struggling with six months of Middle East supply disruptions. And the damage now appears to be more extensive than initially believed. Three pumping stations along Saudi A…
Crude oil prices, which dipped yesterday, extended their losses earlier today following reports that Saudi Arabia will be exporting more oil through Oman while the East-West pipeline is repaired. At the time of writing, Brent crude was trading at $105.89 per barrel, with West Texas Intermediate at $102.39 per barrel. …
The daily rate for commissioning a tanker topped $1 million for the first time in history amid a tightening supply of vessels to carry crude oil and fuels whose owners are willing to dare the Strait of Hormuz. The squeeze is adding extra costs to the price of oil for physical delivery, just as tankers become a cyberse…
Saudi Arabia’s oil supply crisis is rapidly becoming Europe’s problem. The September 10 attacks on Saudi Arabia’s East-West Pipeline struck the system at multiple locations and damaged at least one pumping station, forcing Riyadh to shut down the Kingdom’s critical alternative to the Strait of Hormuz. The 1,200-kilome…
Kazakhstan, which has major oil reserves, is not in a position to help offset a looming energy crisis by expanding production, industry analysts say. With the Strait of Hormuz blocked, Russia sanctioned and Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline knocked out of action by Iranian drones, experts are predicting a spike in ene…
U.S. Coast Guard and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents last month boarded tankers to probe suspected cyber attacks on the vessels bound for the U.S. Gulf Coast that allegedly took place while the ships were transiting the Strait of Gibraltar between Morocco and Spain. A Coast Guard-led team that included FB…
So far this week, Saudi Arabia has sold as many as 20 million barrels of crude oil in the spot market to be picked up from just outside the Strait of Hormuz, after the Kingdom was forced to shut down the key onshore pipeline that helps it bypass the chokepoint, unnamed traders with knowledge of the matter told Bloombe…
Some refiners in Japan this week rushed to buy Oman’s crude for earlier loadings after Saudi Arabia shut down its key pipeline bypassing the Strait of Hormuz, traders with knowledge of the purchases told Bloomberg on Wednesday. Late last week, Saudi Arabia was forced to temporarily shut down the East-West oil pipeline…
Tanker traffic in the Strait of Hormuz remains a fraction of pre-war levels, with four vessels traversing the waterway on Tuesday, down from seven the previous day, Reuters has reported, citing ship-tracking data. The data does not include tankers that have turned off their geolocation devices, the publication noted. …
The war in Iran that had to be over and won by the United States in about six weeks is now in its seventh month and the oil markets are starting to crack. Gone are most of the cushions the market had in the early weeks and months of the Middle East conflict. The oversupply from early this year has disappeared as oil o…