US Secretary of Energy Wright said at the UN Nuclear Supervisory Authority meeting on Monday that the seven-day rolling average of clandestine oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz under the escort of the US Navy is rising and will continue to rise. “The trend of this seven-day rolling average has been rising and will continue to rise,” he said at a press conference, adding that the peak of 17 million barrels per day he mentioned on September 1 was actually higher: “There was a ship that wasn't counted at the time. The results proved that the actual volume of shipments reached almost exactly 18 million barrels that day.”

US Secretary of Energy Wright said at the UN Nuclear Supervisory Authority meeting on Monday that the seven-day rolling average of clandestine oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz under the escort of the US Navy is rising and will continue to rise. “The trend of this seven-day rolling average has been rising and will continue to rise,” he said at a press conference, adding that the peak of 17 million barrels per day he mentioned on September 1 was actually higher: “There was a ship that wasn't counted at the time. The results proved that the actual volume of shipments reached almost exactly 18 million barrels that day.”