Oil Slick Stuff

[James48843]

I’m watching them- it looks like a small, steady stream of a variety of both cargo and oil tanker, and LPG ships are in a single line, at 10.5 knots, and then disappear off the AIS system as they approach the straight. So some traffic is flowing, at night, in the dark, when they can’t easily be remotely tracked.

I do not yet see any reappearing on the other end, I’ll try and find one that does, and see how long they are in the dark zone.

We have no idea, of course, if anything is being intercepted in the middle.

 

[James48843]

P.S.- yep- a little string of ants all following the line. At 10.5 knots. Definitely some traffic is moving.

Oh, and two great big Chinese registered cargo ships just kind of plowed their own way through to n the last hour, without regard to anyone else. China is not hesitating to go.

 

[nasa1974]

P.S.- yep- a little string of ants all following the line. At 10.5 knots. Definitely some traffic is moving.

Oh, and two great big Chinese registered cargo ships just kind of plowed their own way through to n the last hour, without regard to anyone else. China is not hesitating to go.

With the AIS systems off and in very dark waters I hope the Chinese ships don't run into another ship.

 

[James48843]

With the AIS systems off and in very dark waters I hope the Chinese ships don't run into another ship.

I think that’s why they are all going only 10.5 knots and in a single-file line.

 

[James48843]

Interesting.

It turns out that the U.S. Energy Secretary who said the U.S. Navy escorted a tanker this morning was wrong. He just apparently is just incompetent to even know what his own Navy is doing.

See this story-

Oil retreats even after Energy Secretary wrongly claims Navy escorted tanker through Strait of Hormuz​

Source: CNBC

Oil prices retreated Tuesday, even after Secretary of Energy Chris Wright wrongly claimed in a social media post that the U.S. Navy had escorted a tanker through the Strait of Hormuz.

“The U.S. Navy has not escorted a tanker or a vessel at this time,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Tuesday.

U.S. crude oil fell 11.94% to close at $83.45 per barrel. Brent crude , the global benchmark, lost 11.28% to settle at $87.80. Prices fell more than 17% immediately after Wright’s post.
...
Wright had said “the U.S. Navy successfully escorted an oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz to ensure oil remains flowing to global markets.”

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/10/crude-oil-prices-today-iran-war.html

 

[SteelSaving]

I thought i saw a report that Iran is allowing any ships to pass through that are not American, Israeli, or European.

I've yet to see a report of a ship from one of those places get through since this started. It also means that any other ship going through probably doesn't need an American escort.