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Iran’s Oil Boom Continues, Powered by Russian-Chinese Support | OilPrice.com

Russia is leading new development efforts in key shared oilfields like Changuleh, Cheshmeh-Khosh, and Arvand.

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North Sea Oil: Booming in Norway and Doomed in the UK | OilPrice.com

The UK’s windfall tax and scrapped investment allowances have driven out major producers like Ineos and Apache, with 2025 set to be the first year since 1960 without a single new exploration well in the UK North Sea.

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China Port Fees Jack-Up Oil Tanker Costs and Cause Market Chaos

China’s retaliatory port levies are exposing oil shipping companies to hefty fees, making them scramble for relevant paperwork, and contributing to delays, cancellations and spiraling freight costs.

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UK Sanctions Russia's Two Biggest Oil Exporters

For the first time, the government of the UK has directly sanctioned top Russian oil exporters Rosneft and Lukoil, the two biggest crude producers in...

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Oil Tanker Rates Soar as U.S. and China Escalate Port Trade War | OilPrice.com

Around 13% of the global crude tanker fleet could be affected, with VLCC rates on the Middle East–China route surging and a two-tier market emerging between China-compliant and non-compliant vessels.

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Weekly Petroleum Status Report - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

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Russia-China LNG Trade Unfazed by Sanctions on Chinese Terminal | OilPrice.com

A new cargo from Russia's sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 project arrived in China, demonstrating continued trade despite UK sanctions on the Chinese import terminal.

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Geopolitical Risk in Oil Has All But Evaporated | OilPrice.com

A growing glut of oil and fear of a global economic slowdown have pushed U.S. crude prices to their lowest point in five years.

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Fire and Explosion Onboard LPG Tanker in Gulf of Aden Leaves Two Missing

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) has reported a vessel attack approximately 116 nautical miles east of Aden, Yemen, in which an unknown projectile struck the vessel and caused...

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China Joins Russia’s Shadow Fleet with First-Ever Dark LNG Ship-to-Ship Transfer

Russia has carried out its first ship-to-ship (STS) transfer of liquefied natural gas (LNG) using so-called “shadow fleet” vessels, teaming up with a Chinese gas carrier. Satellite images and partial AIS data suggest that the transfer took place off the coast of Malaysia on October 18, 2025...

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EU Seeks Maritime Declaration To Inspect Russia's 'Shadow Fleet'

BRUSSELS, Oct 19 (Reuters) – The European Union‘s diplomatic arm, the EEAS, is urging member states to back a maritime declaration that would allow EU nations working with flag states to arrange...

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World’s Largest FPSO Achieves First Oil at Brazil’s Bacalhau Field

A floating production storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) that is being touted as one of the largest and most modern in the world has achieved first...

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Oil Prices Sink as Tanker Traffic Highlights Supply Surge | OilPrice.com

Over 1.2 billion barrels of oil are currently in transit on tankers, driven by increased supply from OPEC+ and non-OPEC+ exporters, longer voyages, and rising production from the Americas.

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Key Alaska LNG Pipeline Study Will Be Completed This Year, US Interior Secretary Burgum Says

The backers of a proposed 800-mile (1,287 km) gas pipeline in Alaska championed by U.S. President Donald Trump expect to complete a key engineering and cost study by the end of this year, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said on Monday.

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Breakwave Bi-Weekly Tanker Report - October 21, 2025​

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U.S. Seeks 1 Million Barrels for Strategic Petroleum Reserve

The U.S. Department of Energy said on Tuesday it is looking to buy 1 million barrels of crude oil for delivery to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, as it seeks to take advantage of relatively low oil prices to help replenish the stockpile.

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EU shadow fleet boarding plan risks legal challenges

High representative for foreign affairs and security policy Kaja Kallas said ministers had discussed ‘a more robust response’, including potentially boarding shadow fleet tankers

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Iranian Tankers Go Dark Again After Three Days of Unusual AIS Transparency

Iran’s National Iranian Tanker Company fleet has returned to conducting dark operations after an unprecedented three-day period of AIS transparency that left maritime analysts puzzled about the motivation behind the...

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Crude tankers firing on all cylinders as oil in transit soars

Western sanctions are ineffective, say critics. And yet, these sanctions are having a growing impact on tanker trades, providing more support for rates of compliant tonnage. The recent upswing in oil-in-transit volumes is largely fuelled by delivery delays for sanctioned barrels

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Weekly Petroleum Status Report - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

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FEATURE | Inside the “dark fleet” fueling a Mexican cartel’s oil smuggling empire​

On the afternoon of March 8, a petroleum tanker named Torm Agnes entered the Port of Ensenada on Mexico’s Pacific coast carrying almost 120,000 barrels of diesel.

Such a vessel was a rare sight in that port, which mainly hosts cruise liners, luxury yachts and container ships. Ensenada lacks the infrastructure needed to unload cargos of flammable hydrocarbons safely – making what happened later that day odder still.

Waves of fuel-hauling trucks rolled up to the dock to cart away much of the Torm Agnes’ load. Workers scurried about filling the vehicles’ cavernous tanks, up to six at a time, using hoses springing from a larger hosepipe affixed to the vessel. The operation, while risky, ran like clockwork, according to an eyewitness and a photo and video from the scene shared with Reuters.

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FEATURE | Inside the “dark fleet” fueling a Mexican cartel’s oil smuggling empire

On the afternoon of March 8, a petroleum tanker named Torm Agnes entered the Port of Ensenada on Mexico’s Pacific coast carrying almost 120,000 barrels of diese

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U.S. Treasury Sanctions Russia's Largest Oil Companies Over Ukraine

The U.S. Department of the Treasury imposed sanctions on Russia’s two largest oil companies on October 22, targeting Rosneft and Lukoil in response to Moscow’s continued refusal to pursue peace...

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"Time To Stop The Killing" - US Treasury Unveils Massive Russia Sanctions, Demands "Immediate Ceasefire" | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

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Trump’s Russian oil sanctions set to redraw global tanker trading map - Splash247

US president Donald Trump has imposed sweeping new sanctions on Russia’s two biggest oil producers, Rosneft and Lukoil, in what he described as “tremendous sanctions” aimed at forcing Moscow to the negotiating table over its war in Ukraine. The sanctions have the potential to redraw the global...

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Sweeping new sanctions against the aggressor state

The EU and USA adopt new rounds of restrictive measures against the Russian energy sector. Among the vessels targeted by the EU as part of its 19th Sanction Package are several oil tankers currently located along the coast of Norway.

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Spoofing Tanker Reveals Russia’s Hidden Baltic LPG Exports

Windward uncovered a Russia-bound LPG tanker spoofing its AIS position for 20 days near Ust-Luga, exposing deceptive tactics used to conceal sanctioned exports.

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Could U.S. Sanctions Finally Cripple Russia’s War Economy? | OilPrice.com

The United States and its allies have sanctioned Russia’s largest oil companies in an effort to choke off funding for the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine, though experts doubt the measures will have immediate impact.

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General News

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Trump’s Sanctions Light a Fire Under Oil Prices | OilPrice.com

Oil markets roared back to life after Trump’s sanctions on Russia’s top oil producers sent prices surging.

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Trump Plan Would Open Almost All Coast to Offshore Drilling

By Jennifer A. Dlouhy Oct 23, 2025 (Bloomberg) –The Trump administration is readying a proposal to open almost all US coastal waters to new offshore oil drilling despite opposition from state...

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The Predictable Unpredictability of Trump's Oil Sanctions | OilPrice.com

The oil market is showing skepticism about the long-term effectiveness of recent US sanctions on Russia's top oil producers, despite an initial price rally.

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Indian Refiners Pause Russian Oil Orders as U.S. Sanctions Bite | OilPrice.com

Indian refiners have suspended new Russian crude orders amid tightening U.S. sanctions, awaiting government guidance on how to proceed without violating payment restrictions.

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Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Update

Gasoline and diesel fuel prices released weekly.

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Iran, Russia and The New Zealand Insurer That Kept Their Sanctioned Oil Flowing

Last Christmas, the tanker Yug cruised out of the Chinese port of Qingdao after offloading 2 million barrels of sanctioned Iranian oil. Near the Arctic, a vessel carrying Russian crude churned through icy seas, bound for India. Six thousand miles away, a third ship unloaded its cargo of Iranian...

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Maritime Sanctions Harmonization Analysis | UK, EU, US Overlap Data

Explore sanctions harmonization across 6 jurisdictions. Interactive Venn diagrams show UK-EU overlap at 73%, vessel overlaps, and compliance patterns.

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Baltic companies secretly fuelling Russia’s shadow fleet

Every day, Russian tankers carry billions of dollars’ worth of oil across the Baltic Sea. Despite sweeping Western sanct...

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Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report - EIA

Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report - EIA

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Oil Prices Unmoved by Trump-Xi Meeting | OilPrice.com

This report provides an overview of global oil and natural gas market trends, including price changes, production data, and geopolitical developments impacting energy.

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EU Talks Tough on Russian LNG, But Buys More Than Ever in 2025

The EU energy double standard continues. Just days after agreeing to stop buying Russian LNG by 2027 new data show that the bloc is importing record-levels of the fuel in 2025, up 7 percent over the same period in 2024. During the first six months of 2025 member states spent €4.5 billion on...

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Chinese LNG Ship Skirting US Curbs Continues to Fake Location

A liquefied natural gas tanker that appears to be assisting a Russian export project circumvent US sanctions is still faking its location, according to satellite images analyzed by Bloomberg News.

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Russia Pushes ‘Shadow Fleet’ to Limit as LNG Carrier Struggles Through Early Arctic Ice on Northern Sea Route

A Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier from the country’s so-called shadow fleet, the Buran, is battling thickening sea ice along the Northern Sea Route, underscoring the risks Moscow faces in keeping Arctic energy exports flowing as winter sets in. The vessel is part of a fleet of...

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