Chokepoint oil & petroleum liquids transit — 4.3 million bbl/day

Value4.3 million bbl/day

Period2Q2025 average (EIA STEO)

As ofJune 30, 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, second-quarter 2025 average. Volumes are well below pre-2024 levels as Red Sea security disruption diverts tankers around the Cape of Good Hope. A quarterly snapshot, not real-time.

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-2q25/data.json · per-version field diffs: /changes/compare.

Relationships & machine-readable

Indicator JSON (with a relationship graph): indicators/obs-babelmandeb-oil-2q25/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: 4.3 million bbl/day (2Q2025 average (EIA STEO)), U.S. Energy Information Administration, via Warconomy. https://warconomy.com/indicators/obs-babelmandeb-oil-2q25. Source-linked, manually maintained; not real-time.

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