{"id":127477,"date":"2026-09-08T09:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T09:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/127477\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T09:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T09:03:09","slug":"disruption-in-bab-al-mandab-caused-a-significant-drop-in-saudi-arabias-oil-exports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/127477\/","title":{"rendered":"Disruption in Bab al-Mandab caused a significant drop in Saudi Arabias oil exports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan Voice Agency (AVA): According to Reuters, Russell Hardy, CEO of Vitol, the world&#8217;s largest independent oil trading company, emphasized that global demand in this sector has decreased by 1.5 million barrels per day this year compared to last year.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the Bab al-Mandab Strait has affected Saudi Arabia&#8217;s daily oil exports by 2 to 3 million barrels.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that the Yemeni armed forces had previously announced a ban on ships related to Riyadh passing through the Bab al-Mandab Strait in response to Saudi aggression against the country.<\/p>\n<p>Economic affairs expert Salim al-Ja&#8217;dabi also emphasized, referring to Yemen&#8217;s ban on ships related to Saudi Arabia, that the country&#8217;s oil exports had fallen from seven million barrels per day to three million barrels, which is the lowest level in the past nine years.&#13;\n  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Afghan Voice Agency (AVA): According to Reuters, Russell Hardy, CEO of Vitol, the world&#8217;s largest independent oil trading&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[125],"tags":[3687,42808,3692,35609,62207,62209,6946,1124,25385,5729,9371,15189,2877,62208,62211,4004,658,2434,62210,12783,35608,52335,25544,28,158],"class_list":["post-127477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vitol","tag-a","tag-al","tag-announced","tag-arabia","tag-bab","tag-caused","tag-ceo","tag-company","tag-disruption","tag-drop","tag-exports","tag-impact","tag-in","tag-mandab","tag-negative","tag-of","tag-oil","tag-on","tag-prominent","tag-s","tag-saudi","tag-significant","tag-strait","tag-the","tag-vitol"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117234617934333453","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}