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Qatar and Kuwait Restore 70% of Pre-War Oil Exports Through Hormuz

Oilprice.com Trade press Published 27th August 2026 Global

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Qatar and Kuwait have managed to boost their crude oil exports from the Strait of Hormuz to 70% of pre-war levels as they followed the United Arab Emirates in shuttling oil through the chokepoint and using ship-to-ship transfers in the Gulf of Oman, anonymous traders told Bloomberg on Thursday.   Before the Middle East conflict, Qatar and Kuwait collectively exported about 2 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil via the Strait of Hormuz. They don’t have alternative routes as Saudi Arabia and the UAE do, and struggled to ship oil…

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Oilprice.com · Trade Publication
Published
27th August 2026
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oilprice.com

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Commodities & Input Costs
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Global
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27th August 2026 · 13:26

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Significance 2 · Moderate
Confidence 3 · Moderate

Initial Significance Moderate (30.0/100). Strongest contributor: Geographic Breadth (10.0/10 points). Limiting factor: Likely Event Severity (3.0/30 points). Initial Confidence Moderate (46.5/100, data sufficiency: Partial). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (20.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Extraction Quality (3.0/15 points).

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Possibly the same underlying story as Kuwait, Qatar Cargoes Boost Hormuz Oil Flows — flagged automatically, never merged automatically.