🇸🇦🇾🇪 Satellites reportedly caught Saudi Arabia loading nearly 10 million barrels of oil on the Red Sea as the world leans on its route around Hormuz TankerTrackers spotted the crude going out of the Yanbu and Al Muajjiz terminals in European satellite imagery from Sunday, along
Why now
Thesis: Hormuz disruption forces Saudi export rerouting
Catalyst to watch: Hormuz throughput recovery or further disruption
Main risk: Rerouting proves sufficient, premium fades
Why it matters
Saudi rerouting via Red Sea signals Hormuz disruption is constraining flows, keeping crude supply risk premium elevated.
Details
🇸🇦🇾🇪 Satellites reportedly caught Saudi Arabia loading nearly 10 million barrels of oil on the Red Sea as the world leans on its route around Hormuz TankerTrackers spotted the crude going out of the Yanbu and Al Muajjiz terminals in European satellite imagery from Sunday, along with refined fuel shipments, and counted 40 tankers across the area. With Hormuz running at a third of normal, Yanbu has become the most important oil port on the planet, and since the Houthis have already hit it, keeping their drones away from it matters as much as anything happening in the strait. Source: @TankerTrackers / Writer: Daniel
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