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Middle East crude oil exports recover to pre-war levels

Rank
Ran: 46h
Updated: 5d ago
Final
Outlets: 16
Regions: 5
Countries: 12
Languages: 4

Hellenic Shipping News Greece · English 28 Sept, 21:00 UTC

The earliest of 13 English reports

Read it also in Čeština (1) · +2 languages

Read at Hellenic Shipping News

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Hellenic Shipping News, 28 Sept, 21:00 UTC.
Second country: United States, with New York Times.
Second region: Americas, with New York Times.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 29 Sept, 12:45 UTC.
Last article: 16 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 12 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

25%38%19%

Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 6%
Americas 4 outlets · 2 countries · 25%
Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 6%
Europe 6 outlets · 5 countries · 38%
Middle East 3 outlets · 2 countries · 19%
International 1 outlet · 6%

First movers

Hellenic Shipping News 28 Sept, 21:00 UTC
New York Times +12h 1m
Estadão +14h 23m
The National +15h 45m
Euronews +16h 13m

Last to join

Rigzone 30 Sept, 20:35 UTC
OilPrice.com 30 Sept, 16:00 UTC
The Wall Street Journal 30 Sept, 13:35 UTC
Al Jazeera 30 Sept, 12:05 UTC
Splash247 30 Sept, 09:22 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 16 outlets in 12 countries, across 5 regions, 4 of them trade press. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 16 outlets, 1 state-owned, 15 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 1: Zambia. Americas 2: Brazil, United States. Asia-Pacific 1: Singapore. Europe 5: Czechia, France, Greece, Switzerland, United Kingdom. Middle East 2: Qatar, 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: Czech, German, English, Portuguese.
Timeline: Earliest article Hellenic Shipping News, 28 Sept 2026, 21:00 UTC. First seen 28 Sept 2026, 22:00 UTC. Last seen 30 Sept 2026, 20:35 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: None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. 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 Oil tanker traffic recovering in Strait of Hormuz; LNG shipments through Strait of Hormuz hit post-February highs; WTI Whipsaws as Gulf Supply Improves and Middle East Risk Returns; Mitchell: Hormuz Oil Exports Up With Shuttle Tankers Use (Video); Tanker congestion displaces oil transfers from Hormuz; 國際油價上揚維持在每桶100美元附近; Indian oil refiners hire ships to cross Hormuz Strait; Middle East oil exports rebound to 80% of prewar levels; Pétrole : les volumes remontent, les tensions sur les carburants persistent; Oil Is Flowing From the Persian Gulf, but Prices Remain High. Why?; Saudi Arabia increases oil exports via east-west pipeline. 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

29 Sept 2026 124 10.51 10 9 9 8 3.3 → 4.0

30 Sept 2026 93 11.32 16 12 6 5 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 28 Sept, 22:00 UTC · Updated 30 Sept, 20:35 UTC

Covered by 16 outlets

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
29 Sept 2026	124	10.51	10	9	9	8	3.3 → 4.0
30 Sept 2026	93	11.32	16	12	6	5	4.0

Covered by 16 outlets

Africa 1 outlet

Americas 4 outlets

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

Europe 6 outlets

Middle East 3 outlets

International 1 outlet