Oil loadings from Iraq’s export installations in the Persian Gulf jumped on Monday with seven tankers collecting the nation’s cargoes, the latest sign that regional flows might be climbing.

Black Sea strikes hamper oil flows from Novorossiysk, while crude processing tumbles

Shipments fell for a fifth week with no crude loading from the key Novorossiysk oil terminal in the seven days to Aug. 16

A brief lull in drone strikes allowed refiners to boost runs, likely diverting crude from exports

Iran’s oil terminals have appeared largely idle this month as the US continues to impose a blockade aimed at pressuring the country into a peace deal, though visibility into its operations remains patchy.

OPEC’s crude oil production recouped some more of its wartime losses last month with gains in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, though opaque shipping data complicated the process of tracking the group’s output, a Bloomberg survey showed.

Ukraine’s switch to attacking tankers lets plants process more crude, ship less abroad

Empty supertankers are heading to Egypt’s Mediterranean port of Sidi Kerir to collect Saudi Arabia’s crude, a signal of wariness among some shipowners about sailing closer to Houthi-threatened waters.

Oil traders pored over satellite images that showed smoke appearing at several Saudi oil facilities over the past 48 hours, but the data offered few clues as to whether the kingdom’s energy production had been impacted by recent attacks from Iran-backed militias.

Attacks on ships by the Yemeni rebels have slowed but not stopped Red Sea oil shipments

Millions of barrels of Saudi Arabian crude are still being shipped from the nation’s Red Sea coast to the global market, despite threats and attacks by Yemen’s Houthi militants against the kingdom’s shipping that have the potential to further destabilize the global oil trade.

Three very large crude carriers hauling about 6 million barrels of crude slipped out of the Persian Gulf via the Strait of Hormuz in the past 24 hours, running the gauntlet of potential attack by Iran.

Ships continue to turn away from the southern end of the Red Sea, after Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels announced an embargo on Saudi exports through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a narrow channel that has become a lifeline for oil exports since the beginning of the US-Israeli war with Iran.

Deliveries of Russian crude oil to India so far this month remain near June’s record 

Saudi Arabia exported record volumes of crude oil from terminals on the Red Sea in the days and weeks before the Houthis said they would block the nation’s shipments.

Three oil tankers have made U-turns in the southern Red Sea after warnings from Houthi rebels in Yemen that they would target ships heading to or from Saudi ports.

Saudi Arabia’s oil loadings from inside the Persian Gulf have slumped in the wake of an upsurge of attacks on supertankers in the Strait of Hormuz, satellite images reviewed by Bloomberg show, demonstrating how Iran is once again disrupting supply.

The amount of Moscow’s oil at sea is back near the highs seen at the start of the year

The amount of Moscow’s oil at sea is back near the highs seen at the start of the year

President Donald Trump just threw out a demand of a 20% reimbursement on cargo shipped through the Strait of Hormuz, or roughly $30 million on full supertankers carrying oil.