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HormuzMonitor says Kpler puts Gulf crude bypassing Hormuz at 40%, up from 17%

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Strait of Hormuz shipping flows
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HormuzStraitMonitor posted that 40% of Gulf crude now bypasses the Strait of Hormuz, up from 17% before the war, attributing the figure to Kpler. The same post said Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline to the Red Sea was shut from 11 to 22 September after strikes from Iraq and that an AFP source said a new attack halted it again on 5 October, while Bloomberg sources said it was flowing normally. The post is retained as an attributed market and transit claim and preserves the AFP/Bloomberg discrepancy instead of treating either version as settled.

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Evidence: 40% of Gulf crude now bypasses Hormuz, up from 17% before the war, per Kpler

Single X post from HormuzStraitMonitor. Kpler, AFP and Bloomberg are cited textually, but their underlying documents were not attached or read here, so the 40%/17% figure and the pipeline status are kept as attributed claims with the stated discrepancy.