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G7 releases 100 million barrels from strategic oil reserves

Rank
Ran: 42h
Updated: 37h ago
Final
Outlets: 125
Regions: 5
Countries: 61
Languages: 29

+50

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: The Express Tribune, 2 Oct, 10:08 UTC.
Second country: Singapore, with CNA.
Second region: Europe, with Frankfurter Allgemeine.
Fastest hour: +39 outlets from 2 Oct, 14:31 UTC.
Last article: 125 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 61 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. 3 international outlets publish from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

21%21%42%

Africa 6 outlets · 4 countries · 5%
Americas 26 outlets · 9 countries · 21%
Asia-Pacific 26 outlets · 16 countries · 21%
Europe 53 outlets · 25 countries · 42%
Middle East 11 outlets · 6 countries · 9%
International 3 outlets · 2%

First movers

The Express Tribune 2 Oct, 10:08 UTC
CNA +2h 48m
Frankfurter Allgemeine +2h 55m
NOS +4h
Politico Europe +4h 8m

Last to join

Zambian Observer 4 Oct, 08:53 UTC
ERT 4 Oct, 08:45 UTC
El Espectador 3 Oct, 22:05 UTC
Euronews 3 Oct, 13:59 UTC
Vanguard 3 Oct, 12:48 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 125 outlets in 61 countries, across 5 regions, 3 of them trade press. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 125 outlets, 9 state-owned, 8 public-service, 108 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 4: Nigeria, Senegal, Tunisia, Zambia. Americas 9: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Mexico, United States. Asia-Pacific 16: Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam. Europe 25: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom. Middle East 6: Iraq, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article The Express Tribune, 2 Oct 2026, 10:08 UTC. First seen 2 Oct 2026, 14:30 UTC. Last seen 4 Oct 2026, 08:53 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region International. Topic Energy. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: 0.01, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain: Continued by G7 orders 100 million barrel oil stock release, rejects energy export bans; Why gas prices could still go up despite G7 releasing millions of barrels of oil and fuel; G7 releases 100 million barrels of oil to global markets; G7 Fuel Release Offers Temporary Price Relief. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

2 Oct 2026 3 75.69 95 49 95 49 4.0

3 Oct 2026 1 86.44 123 59 36 25 4.0

4 Oct 2026 186 3.28 125 61 3 3 4.1

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How this was measured

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Started 2 Oct, 14:30 UTC · Updated 4 Oct, 08:53 UTC

Covered by 125 outlets

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
2 Oct 2026	3	75.69	95	49	95	49	4.0
3 Oct 2026	1	86.44	123	59	36	25	4.0
4 Oct 2026	186	3.28	125	61	3	3	4.1

Covered by 125 outlets

Africa 6 outlets

Americas 26 outlets

Asia-Pacific 26 outlets

Europe 53 outlets

Middle East 11 outlets

International 3 outlets