For six months the entire conversation about oil logistics has been about one strait, and you can hardly blame anyone for that. Hormuz has been effectively closed since late February, when the war between Iran and the U.S. and Israel started, and the EIA reckons only 4.9 million barrels a day of crude and liquids made it through in the second quarter. In the last quarter of 2025 that number was 21.6 million.
Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said in June that management of the strait “will never return to the way it was before the…
About the EIA Data
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) is the statistical and analytical arm of the U.S. Department of Energy, providing authoritative data on domestic and international energy markets. Its weekly petroleum status reports and monthly outlooks are benchmark references for industry participants globally.
EIA inventory reports covering crude oil, gasoline, and distillates are released each Wednesday and routinely influence intraday price movements, reflecting actual physical market balances at key U.S. storage and refining hubs.
What to Watch
Energy market participants will be parsing the full EIA data release for inventory changes, production rate updates, and implied demand figures that could shift near-term price expectations across petroleum markets.
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