EIA Short-Term Energy Outlook — energy security / maritime oil chokepoints
U.S. Energy Information Administration
Source profile
- Type: Official government / regulator
- Access / format: Machine-readable (free CSV / feed / parsed XLSX)
- Machine-readable: Yes — refreshable on demand
- Update cadence: unknown
- Used for: chokepoint, shipping, oil, energy, trade
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Source details
How Warconomy uses this source
EIA Short-Term Energy Outlook energy-security supplement. Table 2 reports the volume of crude oil and petroleum liquids transported through world chokepoints and the Cape of Good Hope by quarter (latest published: 1Q2025 and 2Q2025). Quarterly snapshots, manually transcribed as static fixtures; not real-time. An irregular/quarterly series — a manual review against EIA's next update is recommended over time.
Citation readiness
Why
- official publisher
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- deep link to the specific page/series
- manually reviewed
Limitations
- manually maintained static value, not real-time
- irregular/policy cadence; re-verify against the source
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Indicators from this source
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| Indicator | Value | As of | Source | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chokepoint oil & petroleum liquids transit | 2.4 million bbl/daylive · source-linked | June 30, 2025 | U.S. Energy Information Administration | High |
| Chokepoint oil & petroleum liquids transit | 2.8 million bbl/daylive · source-linked | March 31, 2025 | U.S. Energy Information Administration | High |
| Chokepoint oil & petroleum liquids transit | 22.8 million bbl/daylive · source-linked | June 30, 2025 | U.S. Energy Information Administration | High |
| Chokepoint oil & petroleum liquids transit | 21.7 million bbl/daylive · source-linked | March 31, 2025 | U.S. Energy Information Administration | High |
| Chokepoint oil & petroleum liquids transit | 4.3 million bbl/daylive · source-linked | June 30, 2025 | U.S. Energy Information Administration | High |
| Chokepoint oil & petroleum liquids transit | 3.7 million bbl/daylive · source-linked | March 31, 2025 | U.S. Energy Information Administration | High |
| Chokepoint oil & petroleum liquids transit | 3.7 million bbl/daylive · source-linked | June 30, 2025 | U.S. Energy Information Administration | High |
| Chokepoint oil & petroleum liquids transit | 3.6 million bbl/daylive · source-linked | March 31, 2025 | U.S. Energy Information Administration | High |
| Chokepoint oil & petroleum liquids transit | 4.7 million bbl/daylive · source-linked | June 30, 2025 | U.S. Energy Information Administration | High |
| Chokepoint oil & petroleum liquids transit | 4.8 million bbl/daylive · source-linked | March 31, 2025 | U.S. Energy Information Administration | High |
Facts citing this source
After the Strait of Hormuz, the Strait of Malacca is the world's busiest oil transit chokepoint by volume, carrying crude and petroleum products toward East Asian markets.
Red Sea security disruption since late 2023 has pushed many tankers off the Bab el-Mandeb and Suez route onto the longer voyage around the Cape of Good Hope, lowering oil flows through the strait.
Flows through the Turkish Straits are predominantly crude oil moving from Russian, Caspian, and Black Sea ports toward the Mediterranean and world markets.
The Danish Straits are a primary outlet for seaborne Russian and Baltic crude and petroleum-product exports to global markets, making them central to sanctions and shadow-fleet attention in the Baltic.
Where this source is used
Review status
Event snapshot is old; review recommended before citing as current context. This source backs 10 live observations; the oldest has an asOf of March 31, 2025, giving a recommended review-by date of September 27, 2025 for its unknown cadence. Review status is a re-check signal, not a correctness claim.
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Time series using this source
Version history
This source is byte-present in 151 frozen dataset versions (v1.37.0–v1.187.0), citing 10 observations and 4 facts. Appearances are derived from committed frozen payloads only.
Full record history: records/source--eia-steo-chokepoints/data.json.
Relationships & machine-readable
This source backs 10 observations, 4 facts, and appears in 24 provenance records. See the source JSON (includes a source relationship graph), the per-record provenance export, and the source health checklist.
Limitations
- Values referencing this source are manually maintained static fixtures, not real-time and not automatically updated.
- Figures may be revised by the publisher in later releases; review cadence depends on the source.
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