Covert mideast oil flows are keeping global prices in check | Fortune0

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• August 16, 2026

Middle Eastern oil producers are pressing ahead with shuttling large volumes of crude out of the Persian Gulf, helping keep a lid on prices and assuaging fears of an energy-driven inflation spike, even as the Iran war drags on. The trade of ferrying oil through the Strait of Hormuz undetected to transfer the barrels onto