Oil slumped about 3% in Asian trade Monday after a draft proposal to end the U.S.-Iran war began circulating following Iranian negotiators' departure from Qatar. Easing supply-risk premiums from the conflict are weighing on crude prices.
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OPEC+ holds December oil output unchanged for a third consecutive month
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Venture Global's US LNG project starts commercial operations as Shell lifts the first cargo
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Kremlin says EU gas transit talks hardly possible now; WSJ says US pushes to restore flows via Ukraine
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Tanker traffic · data through Oct 25 · estimate for Nov 2
Tanker transits through the Strait of Hormuz average 0.9 a day, 1% of normal, and have been below half of normal since Mar 4. Bab el-Mandeb is at 49% of normal.
Share of normal tanker traffic
vs a normal week
DataEstimateNormal week
Strait of HormuzBelow half since Mar 41%est. 2%10%
Bab el-MandebBelow half of normal49%est. 49%75%
Suez Canal90%est. 89%125%
Cape of Good Hope195%est. 216%250%
Sep 11est. Nov 2
Lines are the last 45 days of data, through Oct 25; each row has its own scale. The grey line is the estimate for Nov 2: the last week carried forward, so it can miss when traffic changes suddenly; a step in it is the normal week changing, not traffic. An estimate, not data.
Traffic missing from one route can reappear on another.
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