Last week, the EIA posted 2.035 million barrels per day in crude oil exports. Here's what we tracked during the week ending January 25th, 2019.

So far during the month of January 2019, we have spotted and identified three foreign VLCC (Very Large Crude Carrier; ~2 million barrel capacity) supertankers successfully pick up crude oil and gas condensates out of Iran.

Here is our summarized report for crude oil exports tracked during the first 21 days of January 2019, in barrels per day vs the entire month of December.

Last week, the EIA reported a draw of 2.681 million barrels even though production rose by another 200,000 barrels per day to 11.9 million.

When the US Department of Treasury imposed economic sanctions on Iran, they announced that eight countries were issued six month waivers to continue importing Iran's oil. One of them was Taiwan. The country couldn't continue importing because payment mechanisms ceased. We now examine their plan B.

Last week, the EIA posted 2.966 million barrels per day in crude oil exports. Check out what we tracked for week ending January 18th, 2018.

This report covers crude oil exports during the first two weeks of January 2019. In addition to Iran, Iraq, Libya, Kuwait, Oman, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and both Sudans, we have also added OPEC member, Gabon!

We've put together a list of how many barrels were shipped by the OPEC countries we track during December 2018 to the United States of America. This will be published on the 15th of every month.

Last week, the EIA posted a draw of 1,680 million barrels in commercial crude oil inventory. We saw that the EIA's data collection improved as the accounting Adjustment factor had dropped from its recent highs.

Saudi Arabia's Energy Minister is saying that Russia's oil production cuts are going slower than he likes. We re-calculate Russia's official numbers for December.

Last week, the EIA posted slightly over 2 million barrels per day in US crude oil exports. Let's see what we tracked last week!

We have a visual of the Aden refinery fire that broke out last night. Tomorrow we'll be following up with the second tank that caught fire as well.

Due to fuel theft in Mexico, the national oil company has been forced to transport gasoline solely by trucks instead of pipeline. We took a closer look.

The US government shutdown continued into its third week last week and we have yet to see what impact it will have on this week's EIA report. We have applied several adjustments.

The Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP) had a very strong month of US crude oil exports. We decided to take a closer look at how much departed, where they went and the changes in storage.