The figure describes the resilience of regional flows during a period marked by risks along Hormuz routes. The comparison threshold is described by the sources as preceding the war or conflict, but the available material does not establish whether these definitions correspond exactly to the same period.
The New Indian Express attributes the exceedance of previous levels to Kpler data. However, the publication does not provide, in the available material, the exported volumes or the precise period used for the comparison.
Clarín reports that the comparison concerns Middle Eastern exports without including Iran. According to the same outlet, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates led shipments through alternative routes.
The differing availability of Iranian flows emerges in the reports through carefully limited wording. Clarín describes Iranian exports as blocked, without this element being extendable to every flow from the country on the basis of the material provided.
Al Jazeera, by contrast, reports that a commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps described oil flows on a U.S.-supervised route in the Strait of Hormuz as negligible. The statement concerns that specific route and does not allow the entire system of Iranian exports to be described.
The exceedance of previous levels is therefore compatible, according to the reports, with the use of alternative routes by the main non-Iranian exporters, while tensions persist in the Strait of Hormuz. However, the available sources do not indicate the exact amount of the increase.
Clarín finally reports that the increase in the flow helped reduce the price of crude oil. The available material presents this connection as the outlet's account and offers no independent evidence to definitively establish the causal relationship.