Saudi Arabia Oil Port May Have Loaded 11.1 Million Barrels a Day
Oil tankers able to haul a combined 11.1 million barrels a day went to the Saudi Arabian crude- export terminal at Ras Tanura in the latest week, ship-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg show.
Vessels with a combined capacity of 10.6 million deadweight tons arrived at the port in the week to April 21, compared with 11.3 million tons a week earlier, the data show. To estimate that tonnage in terms of barrels a day, the figure was multiplied by 7.33 to calculate the total barrels and then divided by seven, the number of days in the period.
Some of the ships may not have loaded all their cargoes at Ras Tanura, the data show. China will be the largest recipient, followed by South Korea. The Ras Tanura complex, including Ras al-Ju’aymah, is the world’s biggest crude terminal, according to the website of state-owned Saudi Arabian Oil Co., known as Saudi Aramco.
The first of the following tables lists by country the combined deadweight tonnage of tankers that called at Ras Tanura in the latest week, based on signals from the ships’ captains. The second gives weekly total tonnage for tankers calling at the terminal this year.
Week to Week to
April 21 April 14
Country Deadweight Share (%) Share (%)
China 1,772,037 16.7 16.2
South Korea 1,218,431 11.5 9.2
Japan 1,196,731 11.3 13.5
India 785,517 7.4 3.8
U.S. 780,497 7.4 5.5
South Africa 616,770 5.8 6.9
Saudi Arabia 615,698 5.8 9.0
Singapore 603,424 5.7 10.8
Philippines 317,800 3.0 --
Thailand 309,960 2.9 2.7
Oman 309,741 2.9 --
Qatar 281,501 2.7 --
U.A.E. 281,050 2.6 6.3
Malaysia 179,589 1.7 2.8
France 158,583 1.5 --
Bangladesh 106,547 1.0 --
Das Island 106,005 1.0 --
Pakistan 73,400 0.7 --
Unspecified 893,700 8.4 2.6
Total 10,606,981
Total DWT Total barrels a day
Week ended (Million) (Million)
April 14 11.3 11.8
April 7 9.71 10.2
March 31 6.31 6.61
March 24 9.50 9.95
March 17 8.46 8.86
March 10 8.67 9.08
March 3 6.84 7.16
Feb. 25 6.47 6.77
Feb. 18 9.63 10.1
Feb. 11 9.02 9.45
Feb. 4 7.41 7.76
Jan. 28 10.1 10.6
Jan. 21 8.29 8.68
Jan. 14 7.83 8.2
Jan. 7 8.88 9.3
To contact the reporter on this story: Rob Sheridan in London at rsheridan6@bloomberg.net