Centcom: Over 1B crude oil barrels passed through Hormuz strait in recent months - The Hill
Centcom: Over 1B crude oil barrels passed through Hormuz strait in recent months - The Hill
Source: The Hill
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DW NOTE
CENTCOM counts barrels through a strait that was shut for four months, then announces the tally covers "recent months" without specifying the period. If the count starts June 17 when the strait reopened, it's three months of flow — 1 billion barrels is 11 million barrels per day, in line with pre-conflict norms. If it includes the blockade months, the figure is meaningless. The precision of the number paired with the vagueness of the timeframe suggests this is theatre, not data.