Maritime Corridors & STS Transshipment Flow
Custom Setting
Export Volume (Iranian Crude)
685,000 bpd
-58.5% from 1.65M bpd peak
Realized Heavy Blend Spread
-$16.80 / bbl
vs Dated Brent benchmark ($76.00)
Shadow Tanker Premium
$11.45 / bbl
Flag decertification & AIS spoofing friction
Net Tehran Monthly Oil Revenue
$0.99 Billion
-$1.82B / mo loss vs baseline
Enforcement Parameters & Interdiction Levers
Corridor Transshipment Diagnostics
• Persian Gulf Origin: Kharg Island & Bandar Abbas (VLCC dark loads)
• STS Transshipment Hubs: Malacca Strait, Riau Archipelago, East Coast Malaysia
• Refinery Clusters: Shandong Teapots (Dongying, Weifang) vs Displaced Floating Storage
Model grounded in Treasury OFAC energy enforcement data, shadow fleet AIS tracking heuristics, and Singapore/Malaysia ship-to-ship crude blend arbitrage.