{
  "id": 652851,
  "title": "Tanker Data Contradicts U.S. Claim That Middle East Oil Flows Have Normalized",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/tanker-data-contradicts-u-s-claim-that-middle-east-oil-flows-have",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-12T09:20:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "OilPrice",
    "slug": "oilprice",
    "url": "https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Tanker-Data-Contradicts-US-Claim-That-Middle-East-Oil-Flows-Have-Normalized.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Oil flows from the Middle East have normalized, with Sunday traffic alone above pre-conflict averages, U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright said on Tuesday in a claim that appears not to be backed by ship-tracking data. On Tuesday, Secretary Wright posted on X that “Thanks to the coordinated efforts of the U.S. military and our gulf allies, the seven-day average for oil leaving the Strait of…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}