Matt Smith
speaker
87 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 21 Jul
Matt Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 1.
Appearances
We're tracking those tankers that are passing through the Strait of Hormuz here.
Our job has become increasingly more difficult as there's been different routes to try and traverse the strait.
And so what you've essentially got is you've got the Iranian route, which is right at the top, kind of the north.
and then you have the pre-conflict highway which was straight through the middle and then at the bottom you've got the Omani route which is the kind of the southern corridor.
As we've seen escalations increasing here and you've seen some of the tankers being hit that were passing the Omani route, all we're actually seeing now is essentially traffic grinding to a halt again except for those Iranian tankers and friendlies that are passing the Iranian route.
So it's been undulating, right, over the last few months.
You know, March, April and even into May, the traffic was very, very slow.
And then, you know, just over the last month or so, we've really seen it pick up because of the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between the US and Iran.
Now that has basically been, you know, dissolved and we're seeing an escalation here in attacks.
As you mentioned, it's been nine consecutive attacks.
Nights will probably have the 10th today.
And so this is causing all prices to start to kick back higher again.
It was working pretty successfully.
And so it was able to reroute about three and a half million barrels a day of Saudi crude across to the Red Sea.
And so Saudi was exporting about seven million barrels a day out of the Mideast Gulf prior.
So it was able to reroute half of that crude.
So that put them in a better situation more than most.
So that has definitely helped somewhat cushion the supply shock because all of that crude was then going across to the Red Sea and was heading into the
South Korea, these countries that were otherwise getting their crew from the Mideast Gulf and it had stopped.
And so it was definitely providing some support there in terms of supply and then helping to keep prices in check somewhat.
Showing 1–20 of 87 · page 1 of 5
Next →