Signal · Commodities & Input Costs
Hormuz Shipping Slumps as U.S.-Iran Strikes Rattle Oil Markets
What the source reported
Source-reportedThe number of tankers traversing the Strait of Hormuz remains below the ten-day average, according to ship-trackers, with Kpler reporting only four tanker crossings for Tuesday. That is below a ten-day average of 13 tankers, Reuters reported earlier today. Windward, meanwhile, reported four tankers entering the strait, two of them in dark mode, and three exiting on Tuesday, one of them in dark mode. Earlier this week, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said a total of 17 million barrels of crude had passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Monday…
- Publication
- Oilprice.com · Trade Publication
- Published
- 2nd September 2026
- Original report
- oilprice.com
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What ProcIntel recorded
ProcIntel-derived- Category
- Commodities & Input Costs
- Geography
- Global
- Organisations
- None identified
- Collected
- 2nd September 2026 · 10:02
Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.
A provisional, automatically computed reading of this individual Signal, before Event extraction or human review. Not a final rating.
Initial Significance Moderate (28.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (12.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Likely Event Severity (3.0/30 points). Initial Confidence Low (39.0/100, data sufficiency: Partial). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (20.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Extraction Quality (3.0/15 points).
- Strongest contributor
- Procurement Impact
- Limiting factor
- Likely Event Severity