Physical trade

Gold leaves. Steel arrives.

Country-to-country crude and LNG. Click a country to isolate what it sends and what it takes. 2025 is the last peacetime year; September 2026 is after Maduro and after Hormuz.

United States crude out

3.74 mb/d

6.25 mb/d inbound crude.

United States crude in

6.25 mb/d

Net -2.51 mb/d.

LNG out

127 bcm

0 bcm inbound LNG.

WTI Cushing

$103

United States · Brent $107

Inflows and outflows

The molecules changed destination.

Line weight is volume. Particles run exporter to importer. Gold is what the selected country sends; steel is what it takes.

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OutflowInflowCrudeLNG

United States outflows 3.74 mb/d crude, 127 bcm LNG. Inflows 6.25 mb/d crude, 0 bcm LNG.

United States · In + out

Outflows

Inflows

AmericasMerey / HamacaInflow

VenezuelaUnited States

560 kb/d sep 2026 · 90 kb/d in 2025

The post-Maduro redirect. July 2026 USGC receipts hit a record ~608 kb/d.

Monthly bpd

The same corridor, month by month.

July 2025 through September 2026. The January jump is Caracas. The February line is the Iran war; March is the first full month of shut-in Gulf barrels.

Selected corridor

VenezuelaUnited States

560 kb/d

3 January 2026 · Maduro ousted

28 February 2026 · Iran war started

2025 vs now

Who gained the molecules.

Top corridors in the filter above. Crude in kb/d (1.0 = 1 mb/d); LNG in bcm when that molecule is selected.

Into a capital

The import slate, rewritten twice.

Stack the barrels arriving in China, the US, India, Japan or northwest Europe. Maduro takes Venezuela off China’s list. The Iran war takes the Gulf off everyone’s.

3 January 2026 · Maduro ousted

28 February 2026 · Iran war started

Mapped inbound crude only, kb/d (axis in thousands). Not a complete import balance — LNG, products and unlisted grades are off this board.

Local crude

Each capital has a different tape.

WTI and Brent for the United States, Shanghai INE for China, Dubai for Japan, Merey for Venezuela. Dashed Brent sits on every non-Atlantic chart. Markers: Maduro ousted 3 January; Iran war 28 February.

United States

WTI Cushing

$103.0

3 January 2026 · Maduro ousted

28 February 2026 · Iran war started

The US print is WTI at Cushing; Brent is the waterborne cousin on the same chart. Hormuz hits Brent first, WTI with a lag and a smaller spike.

The raid and the concession sit on the delivery timeline. The GPU waterborne book is on Transit. Spot tape is on Markets.