Kpler: Middle East oil exports exceeded pre-Iran war levels
Data from maritime tracking company Kpler shows that Middle East oil exports, excluding Iran, exceeded pre-war levels over the past week, despite attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
News agencies published this report on Monday, the 13th of Ordibehesht, which, based on Kpler data, examined the situation for four days out of the last seven days of September and the first day of October.
According to this report, over the past week, for the first time since the US and Israeli strikes against Iran began in March 1404, the weekly average of oil shipments over several days exceeded the pre-conflict average figure of 18 million barrels per day.
Kpler announced on Wednesday that crude oil exports reached pre-war levels in September, with at least 16.5 million barrels of oil per day leaving the region, excluding Iran. According to Kpler, "Currently 40% of the oil is transiting via routes outside the Strait of Hormuz, and most of the crude oil passing through this strait is being transferred from one tanker to another at sea."
The company added that most of the oil was transported through pipelines in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
This figure includes cargoes passing through the Red Sea; the route used to bypass the blockade that Iran is attempting to impose on the Strait of Hormuz has been increasingly utilized.
Before the conflicts, about one-fifth of the world's oil supply passed through this strait.
This report was published at a time when Iran still claims control over the Strait of Hormuz and repeatedly says that ships lacking Iranian permission are at risk of ground attack. However, according to reports, more ships are passing through and leaving the region, and alternative routes to bypass this waterway are also operating at full capacity. 🔸 In one of the recent cases of danger to vessels, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center, UKMTO, announced on Sunday, October 12, that it had received a report of an incident about 60 nautical miles south of the port of Al-Mukha in Yemen.
Read the full report on the Radio Farda website.