OIL FLOWS

Abstract GeoTrends illustration of a world map formed entirely by tankers, with intense shipping concentrations linking the Middle East to China, the Atlantic to Europe, and the Black Sea to the Mediterranean

Where the tankers go oil power follows

07/10/202607/10/2026

The world’s most profitable tanker routes are exposing a new geography of oil power, where the decisive variables are no longer miles sailed, but ships, scarcity, chokepoints and strategic dependence