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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…
At a Barclays conference this month, Colgate-Palmolive and Kimberly-Clark flagged rising material and freight costs, while Procter & Gamble gave a Supply Chain 3.0 update.
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…
The National Retail Federation and others said a continued halt to fees would help ease uncertainty as stakeholders face elevated transportation costs.
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…
General Mills, Nestlé and more discussed how they are cutting operational costs, navigating uneven freight rates and sharpening demand forecasting at a Barclays conference.
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…