**Data:** U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), *World Oil Transit Chokepoints* — 1H 2025 estimates based on Vortexa tanker tracking & Panama Canal Authority records. Cape of Good Hope is a major trade route, not a chokepoint.
**Additional:** EIA *Today in Energy* (June 2025); Visual Capitalist / MUFG (July 2025); Rystad Energy (Sept 2025).
**Tools:** React, D3.js, built with Claude
timbomcchoi on
oh awesome, the date doesn’t have directions though right? is the cape Nigerian oil going east or East African (middle eastern?) oil going west?
talrich on
Interesting but I wonder how many barrels transiting the Strait of Malacca previously transited the Strait of Hormuz?
doninside on
send this graph to the stable genius
rvc113 on
IS the oil going through the Straight of Malacca the same as the Hormuz one ? I.e leve the Middle East to go to Far East China/Japan/etc.
![[OC] Top global waterways by oil flow](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/nrf2dz8jvipg1-928x1024.png "[OC] Top global waterways by oil flow")
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**Data:** U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), *World Oil Transit Chokepoints* — 1H 2025 estimates based on Vortexa tanker tracking & Panama Canal Authority records. Cape of Good Hope is a major trade route, not a chokepoint.
**Additional:** EIA *Today in Energy* (June 2025); Visual Capitalist / MUFG (July 2025); Rystad Energy (Sept 2025).
**Tools:** React, D3.js, built with Claude
oh awesome, the date doesn’t have directions though right? is the cape Nigerian oil going east or East African (middle eastern?) oil going west?
Interesting but I wonder how many barrels transiting the Strait of Malacca previously transited the Strait of Hormuz?
send this graph to the stable genius
IS the oil going through the Straight of Malacca the same as the Hormuz one ? I.e leve the Middle East to go to Far East China/Japan/etc.