Millions of barrels of oil continued to flow through the Strait of Hormuz this weekend even after Iran claimed to have closed the waterway again, as Washington and Tehran offer contrasting narratives over the status of the world’s most important shipping chokepoint.
Five laden oil supertankers with a combined transport capacity of 8 million barrels could be seen entering or traveling inside the strait on Saturday and Sunday via a route that hugs Oman’s coast, before going “dark.” One of them subsequently resumed sending automated signals early on Sunday after it had reached the Gulf of Oman.
