{"id":65690,"date":"2026-05-15T04:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T04:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/65690\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T04:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T04:57:09","slug":"vitol-offers-iraqi-basrah-crude-outside-hormuz-as-shipments-exit-gulf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/65690\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitol Offers Iraqi Basrah Crude Outside Hormuz as Shipments Exit Gulf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/62647Z:LN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Vitol Group<\/a> is offering Iraqi Basrah crude to customers, people with knowledge of the matter said, in a sign that some shipments may have successfully made it out of the Persian Gulf.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Vitol has offered cargoes to refiners in the past few days, with Basrah Medium and Basrah Heavy available on a ship-to-ship transfer basis in waters off the United Arab Emirates, including the port of Fujairah, according to the people, who asked not to be identified as negotiations are private.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vitol Group is offering Iraqi Basrah crude to customers, people with knowledge of the matter said, in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[35811,18457,9371,11302,10622,3188,231,6782,1197,19944,158,11301,4140],"class_list":{"0":"post-65690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vitol","8":"tag-abu-dhabi-national-oil-co","9":"tag-cargo","10":"tag-exports","11":"tag-generic-1st-cl-future","12":"tag-industries","13":"tag-iran","14":"tag-markets","15":"tag-persian-gulf","16":"tag-united-arab-emirates","17":"tag-vietnam","18":"tag-vitol","19":"tag-vitol-group-the","20":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116576822489041564","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65690","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=65690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}