Sal Mercogliano
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 8 Sep
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They're coming alongside doing what we call a ship to ship transfer.
The problem is that takes days to do this.
It is it's about a five-day round trip from inside the Persian Gulf, loading up with fuel, coming out, and then going back.
So we're not getting 18 million barrels a day.
We're probably getting somewhere in the range of about eight to nine million.
There's no doubt that we're getting more oil out than we were before the con before the the kind of the real big drop-off we had in April and May.
So we are getting fuel out.
The problem is is we're not making up the difference.
There is a huge, what I call a donut hole that was created after February twenty-eighth until roughly around June, where several billion barrels of oil are missing from the world's oil supply.
And what we see right now, when you look at the levels, is global supply is down, which means if we have any sort of disturbance.
Could be a hurricane in the Gulf affecting Texas and Louisiana, could be another geopolitical hit.
That's gonna cause shock to the system.
And when you get down below those margins, you're you're very susceptible to disruptions.
And I think that's where the the government's being a little bit disingenuous in their numbers.
They really need
I I see the Iranians contesting the Strait of Horn moves.
Uh it's very difficult for the Iranians to control, and much like it's difficult for the US to control what the US is doing.
Is using state-operated tanker companies like uh KOTC from Kuwait, Bari from Saudi Arabia, ADNOC from the UAE.
They're putting their ships together.
They meet at a kind of convoy point just north of Abu Dhabi.
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