Strait of Hormuz – key oil waterway

The Strait of Hormuz is one of the world’s most crucial oil transport routes, with a third of global oil tanker traffic – carrying 18.5 million barrels of crude and condensate – passing through the strait every day


Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps naval bases

Maritime boundary
Deep-water shipping lane

IRAN
Sirri
IRAN
UAE
PERSIAN GULF
Abu Dhabi
25 miles 40km
Abu Musa Occupied by Iran, claimed by UAE
Bandar-e-Abbas
Larak Island
Qeshm
IRAN
OMAN
OMAN
STRAIT OF HORMUZ
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Fujairah
OMAN
Jask

IRAN
OMAN
Shipping lanes for tankers are just two nautical miles wide, separated by buffer zone


IRAN
IRAQ
SAUDI ARABIA 
UAE
Tehran
Bahrain: HQ of U.S. 5th Fleet


Iranian crude oil and gas condensate shipments
(thousand barrels per day, June 2018)

Crude oil
2.28 million bpd

Condensate
330,000 bpd

2.61 million bpd

China	India	South Korea	Turkey	Italy	Japan	UAE	Spain	France	Greece	Others
648	502	314		165 	155	138 	127 	114 	109 	77	261


Sources: MEHR News Agency, S&P Global Platts, Stratfor
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