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                    "(Bloomberg) \u2014 The flow of crude through the Strait of Hormuz is creeping higher as producers across the Middle East boost exports in the face of Iran\u2019s lingering threat to shipping. The increase is keeping global crude oil prices in check.\n\n\n\nAbout 6 million to 8 million barrels a day of crude are now being shipped through the world\u2019s key oil chokepoint, according to estimates from oil traders involved in and monitoring cargo activity. Flows slipped in July, when an onslaught of attacks on supertankers by Iran led to the breakdown of an interim ceasefire and heightened risks to navigation. They remain at roughly half prewar levels.\n\n\n\nStill, estimates can be wide-ranging and volatile. Some trackers and US\u00a0officials\u00a0have suggested even higher volumes, though the security situation remains precarious. Two freighters were struck on Monday, according to the UK navy, a reminder that there\u2019s still significant peril when transiting. One factor helping sustain the increase is the highest earnings in the history of the supertanker market, adding for the incentive for shipowners to cross.\u00a0\n\n\n\nEither way, there are signs that producers across the region have been moving more oil in recent days. To enable that, a batch of tankers are doing shuttle runs, hauling barrels to just outside the Persian Gulf. Once the shuttle ships get there, their cargoes are then collected by waiting tankers that remain unwilling to go through the strait themselves. Every major regional supplier bar Iran is now selling its barrels for collection outside Hormuz.\n\n\n\n\u201cIn the last few days, more oil seems to be coming out of Hormuz,\u201d Georgios Sakellariou, a freight analyst at Signal, a shipping and analytics company. \u201cIf it\u2019s sustainable, crude oil prices will stay down, although recently that has still meant something close to $85 a barrel.\u201d\n\n\n\nBrent oil futures were trading at about $88 a barrel on Thursday, on course for the biggest weekly drop since late June when the interim ceasefire was still helping to keep shipments moving. The resumption of negotiations between the US and Iran over ending the war has also stymied prices this week. The boss of Europe\u2019s largest oil refiner said this week he is bearish on the outlook for crude prices, in part as barrels quietly escape Hormuz.\u00a0\n\n\n\nA sudden inflow of ships late last week has enabled higher loadings, and it isn\u2019t clear if more ships had entered in recent days to keep that pace going over the coming weeks.\u00a0\n\n\n\nSaudi Arabia had the highest number of tankers in several weeks at its export installations in the region on Tuesday, satellite images gathered by Bloomberg show. A day earlier, loading activity from Iraq\u2019s ports in the region even briefly exceeded above prewar rates. Smaller producers like Qatar and Kuwait are starting moving more too, adding to the momentum.\u00a0\n\n\n\nTo be clear, it doesn\u2019t mean Saudi Arabia\u2019s total exports are up. The increase from the Persian Gulf has coincided with a drop from its facilities in the Red Sea. Simultaneously, though, the kingdom is loading more oil onto tankers from Sidi Kerir, a port on Egypt\u2019s Mediterranean coast where it owns storage, complicating the tracking of the kingdom\u2019s oil shipments.\u00a0\n\n\n\nIt\u2019s also unclear whether all the regional exports from the Persian Gulf are on their way to customers yet. They still need to be transferred onto waiting vessels usually near the Omani port of Sohar or Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates, a process that can take days.\n\n\n\nTankertrackers.com counts shipments to the global market when they pass through the US blockade line, monitoring the Automatic Identification System signals of ships because of restrictions on timely satellite imagery. On that basis, flows over the past seven days stand at just 3.7 million barrels a day, Samir Madani, the firm\u2019s co-founder says.\n\n\n\nHigher Loadings\n\n\n\nIncreases in loadings observed by satellite have taken place across a range of Gulf producers in recent days. They add to heightened flows from the United Arab Emirates, which was the first major producer in the region to really ramp up its exports.\u00a0\n\n\n\nLoadings from Iraq\u2019s export installations in the Persian Gulf jumped this week, with seven tankers collecting the nation\u2019s cargoes on Monday. The ships in question had a transportation capacity of about 13 million barrels, according to their dimensions. The prewar norm was six tankers loading at eight berths at any given time.\n\n\n\nCompounding the pickup is an increase from two of the region\u2019s smaller producers \u2014 Qatar and Kuwait. The two countries, which exported a combined 2 million barrels a day of oil before the outbreak of the war, have managed to get shipments back to 70% of pre-conflict levels, according to traders, who asked not to be named as they\u2019re not allowed to speak to media.\u00a0\n\n\n\nBloomberg has asked all the major Gulf producers about their loading activity over the past week. None responded.\n\n\n\nFor its part, Iran\u2019s exports remain halted by a blockade that the US reimposed when the ceasefire broke down.\u00a0\n\n\n\nA key challenge now is to boost exports of fuels like diesel and jet fuel. About 1.6 million barrels a day of the region\u2019s refining capacity remains offline, a significant increase from a year earlier, according to data from IIR Energy.\n\n\n\nWhile the crude oil shipping industry has one dominant shipping company helping to organize flows, the South Korean firm Sinokor, that\u2019s not the case for fuels markets, which also requires smaller vessels to collect cargoes.\n\n\n\n\u00a9\u00a02026\u00a0Bloomberg L.P.\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tEditorial Standards \u00b7 Corrections \u00b7 About gCaptainThis article contains reporting from Bloomberg, published under license.\t                \n\n\n\t\tSubscribe for Daily Maritime Insights\n\t\tSign up for gCaptain\u2019s newsletter and never miss an update\n        \u2014 trusted by our 104,572 members"
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