Skip to the story

Middle East / Saudi Arabia · Energy

Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline shuts, disrupting global oil supply

Rank
Ran
5d
Updated
15d ago
Final
Outlets
34
Regions
5
Countries
22
Languages
9

+10

Where it travelled

The 22 countries whose press covered it; when each joined is no longer held. 3 international outlets publish from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

18%17%41%15%

  • Americas 6 outlets · 1 country · 18%
  • Asia-Pacific 6 outlets · 5 countries · 17%
  • Europe 14 outlets · 11 countries · 41%
  • Middle East 5 outlets · 5 countries · 15%
  • International 3 outlets · 9%

The figures

Coverage
34 outlets in 22 countries, across 5 regions, 6 of them trade press. The article links are no longer held: they lasted a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 34 outlets, 3 state-owned, 4 public-service, 27 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 1: United States. Asia-Pacific 5: Hong Kong, India, Japan, Pakistan, Singapore. Europe 11: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, France, Greece, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Spain, United Kingdom. Middle East 5: Israel, Lebanon, Qatar, Turkey, United Arab Emirates. 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, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Lithuanian, Dutch, Polish, Romanian.
Timeline
Earliest article The Hindu, 13 Sept 2026, 16:59 UTC. First seen 14 Sept 2026, 17:10 UTC. Last seen 20 Sept 2026, 02:00 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 Middle East, Saudi Arabia. Topic Energy. Hard news Not judged. This story predates the hard-news rule (methodology 3.0). 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
4.73, at the end of the last day measured. 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 Saudi Aramco halts October crude oil deliveries to Europe. 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
14 Sept 2026 (partial) 108 1.60 3 3 – – 1.0
15 Sept 2026 115 6.79 11 7 – – 1.0
16 Sept 2026 69 13.48 18 11 – – 1.2
17 Sept 2026 63 17.70 23 13 – – 1.2
18 Sept 2026 28 29.47 34 22 – – 1.3
19 Sept 2026 75 14.36 34 22 – – 1.4
20 Sept 2026 215 4.73 34 22 1 1 1.4 → 2.0

This record as JSON, CC BY 4.0.

How this was measured

This page describes measured coverage: which of the outlets Loudest reads carried the story, from how many countries and in how many languages, and when. It says nothing about whether the story is true, important or well reported.

Started 14 Sept, 17:10 UTC · Updated 20 Sept, 02:00 UTC

Covered by 34 outlets

Pin outlets you trust with ☆ and they come first in every story.

Americas 6 outlets

  • Associated Press United States
  • Bloomberg United States
  • gCaptain United States
  • Maritime Executive United States
  • Rigzone United States
  • The Wall Street Journal United States

Asia-Pacific 6 outlets

  • CNA Singapore
  • NHK World Japan
  • South China Morning Post Hong Kong
  • The Express Tribune Pakistan
  • The Hindu India
  • Times of India India

Europe 14 outlets

  • BBC News United Kingdom
  • Container News Greece
  • Der Standard Austria
  • Digi24 Romania
  • El País Spain
  • Euronews France
  • Hellenic Shipping News Greece
  • LRT Lithuania
  • Meduza Russia
  • OilPrice.com United Kingdom
  • Philenews Cyprus
  • Reuters United Kingdom
  • TVN24 Poland
  • VRT NWS Belgium

Middle East 5 outlets

  • Al Jazeera Qatar
  • Al Modon Lebanon
  • Anadolu Agency Turkey
  • The Jerusalem Post Israel
  • The National United Arab Emirates

International 3 outlets

  • INTLAl-Araby Al-Jadeed International
  • INTLAl-Monitor International
  • INTLMiddle East Eye International

Loudest reads the world's press every ten minutes and sizes each story by how widely it is covered.

Live map Archive Data Sources Methodology About Privacy & terms