Chokepoint oil & petroleum liquids transit — 3.7 million bbl/day

Value3.7 million bbl/day

Period1Q2025 average (EIA STEO)

As ofMarch 31, 2025

Last reviewedJune 5, 2026

Confidencehigh

Data modelive · source-linked

SourceEIA Short-Term Energy Outlook — energy security / maritime oil chokepoints

On pageBab el-Mandeb Strait

Citation readinesshigh readiness

Note

EIA Short-Term Energy Outlook estimate of crude oil and petroleum liquids transported through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, first-quarter 2025 average. A quarterly snapshot, not real-time; shown alongside the 2Q2025 figure as a short trend.

Related time series

Bab el-Mandeb oil transit

Version history

This observation is byte-present in 151 frozen dataset versions, from v1.37.0 to v1.187.0. Appearances are derived from committed frozen payloads only — not fabricated for versions that predate the full-payload store.

Full record history: records/observation--obs-babelmandeb-oil-1q25/data.json · per-version field diffs: /changes/compare.

Relationships & machine-readable

Indicator JSON (with a relationship graph): indicators/obs-babelmandeb-oil-1q25/data.json · source page: EIA Short-Term Energy Outlook — energy security / maritime oil chokepoints · per-record provenance.

How to cite

Chokepoint oil & petroleum liquids transit: 3.7 million bbl/day (1Q2025 average (EIA STEO)), U.S. Energy Information Administration, via Warconomy. https://warconomy.com/indicators/obs-babelmandeb-oil-1q25. Source-linked, manually maintained; not real-time.

Machine-readable: data.json · source registry · full page.