Global oil logistics
Global Oil Trade Routes Map
This page separates logistics from country production and consumption. The trade-routes map focuses on the corridors that connect surplus regions to demand centers, with special attention to maritime chokepoints where physical concentration can turn local disruption into global price risk.
Global Oil Map
Global Oil Flow Analysis
Visualizing structural energy dependencies through primary logistics corridors.
People's Republic of China imports
Flows are PetroEyes corridor estimates built from public oil trade, production, consumption, and maritime-route summaries. Volumes are rounded directional averages, not live cargo tracking.
Major oil trade routes
Route volumes are rounded corridor estimates intended to show relative importance and directional dependency.
Persian Gulf to East Asia
Middle East → East Asia
Largest crude oil trade route
Key chokepoints: hormuz, malacca
Persian Gulf to India
Middle East → South Asia
Major supply route for India's oil imports
Key chokepoints: hormuz
Persian Gulf to Europe
Middle East → Europe
Middle East to European markets via Suez
Key chokepoints: hormuz, bab-el-mandeb, suez
Russia to Europe
Russia → Europe
Pipeline and maritime exports to Europe
Key chokepoints: danish, turkish
Russia to China
Russia → China
Pipeline exports via ESPO and maritime
Canada to United States
Canada → United States
Largest bilateral oil trade relationship
West Africa to Asia
West Africa → East Asia
Nigerian and Angolan crude to Asian refineries
Key chokepoints: cape
West Africa to Europe
West Africa → Europe
Short route for light sweet crude
Latin America to United States
Latin America → United States
Venezuelan, Colombian, Brazilian exports
North Sea to Europe
North Sea → Europe
Norwegian and UK production to European refineries
United States Exports
United States → Asia-Pacific
Growing US crude exports to global markets
Key chokepoints: panama
Caspian to Europe
Caspian → Europe
Kazakh and Azeri oil via BTC pipeline and tankers
Key chokepoints: turkish
Strategic oil chokepoints
Chokepoints matter because a single narrow corridor can affect multiple importers, exporters, freight markets, and refinery systems.
| Chokepoint | Volume | Global share |
|---|---|---|
Strait of Hormuz World's most important oil transit chokepoint | 21 mb/d | 20.6% |
Strait of Malacca Key shipping lane between Indian and Pacific Oceans | 23.7 mb/d | 23.3% |
Suez Canal Connects Red Sea to Mediterranean | 5.5 mb/d | 5.4% |
Bab el-Mandeb Connects Red Sea to Gulf of Aden | 6.2 mb/d | 6.1% |
Turkish Straits Bosphorus & Dardanelles connecting Black Sea to Mediterranean | 3 mb/d | 2.9% |
Danish Straits Connection between Baltic Sea and North Sea | 3.2 mb/d | 3.1% |
Panama Canal Connects Atlantic and Pacific Oceans | 1 mb/d | 1% |
Cape of Good Hope Southern tip of Africa - alternative to Suez | 6.5 mb/d | 6.4% |
How to read the route map
The route view is a logistics model. A thick line indicates a larger corridor, while chokepoint markers show places where many cargoes converge. The map should be used with the production map and the consumption map because trade pressure emerges where surplus supply meets deficit demand.
Route estimates are rounded and should not be treated as live cargo tracking. They are useful for explaining exposure to route disruptions, sanctions, freight bottlenecks, insurance risk, refinery supply planning, and seaborne crude availability.