The Persian Gulf · Petroleum Production & Distribution
FY2024
Fiscal Year
FY2000FY2026
FY2024
Fiscal Year
A fifth of the world's oil leaves through one strait twenty-one miles wide.
Refinery — tower height ∝ crude intake
Refinery with desalination — makes water as well as fuel
Product pipeline — refined fuel, not crude
Crude trunk — shown here as the feed the plants run on
Product tanker — where the refined fuel goes
Amber ring — running below its own 2019 line in a scene
Helium works — its output above, its name below
Gas field with a published helium claim — North Field, South Pars, Kish
Every other oil and gas field, dimmed
One reservoir under the border — one side catches its helium
Qatari helium — size ∝ the year’s exports
Ships in the strait — as many as it is letting through
Crude field — area ∝ output
Offshore platform
Gathering line — field to its outlet
Crude trunk — real traced route, bore ∝ capacity
Refinery — 200 kb/d and over, plus Daurah at 180
Stabilization plant — strips H₂S and light ends; no flare
Ship struck — hull still in service
Ship struck — out of service, towed off or abandoned
Wreck — still on the bottom where she went down, inside a hazard ring
Lima flag — seized and still held; the hull keeps its own condition
Boundaries Natural Earth 1:10m Admin 0 Countries v5.1.1, clipped to 43.90–61.35°E / 21.25–33.70°N. Field positions and production GEM Global Oil and Gas Extraction Tracker, March 2026 — dated points off each field’s GEM record, indexed between them to each country’s annual crude production (Energy Institute Statistical Review, via Our World in Data, FY2000–2025); modelled values carry a leading ~, reported values do not. Shaybah at 22.511N 53.952E per OpenStreetMap, not GOGET’s 21.724N. Pipelines GEM Global Oil Infrastructure Tracker, real traced routes; bore by capacity where that source publishes one. Outlet capacities Abqaiq EIA; Kharg Britannica / Iran Open Data Center; Ras Tanura IMF PortWatch via Aramco reports; Mina al Fahal Reuters; Zirku Island nominal offloading rate. Refinery capacities Wikipedia’s list of oil refineries; coordinates from the Wikipedia API and OpenStreetMap. Inset years and dated capacities: Yanbu, Rabigh, YASREF, Jazan from the Atlantic Council Saudi refining table; Baiji from Wikipedia, Grokipedia and Rudaw; Arak from Grokipedia and Industrial Info Resources; Erbil from A Barrel Full; Kirkuk from Oil & Gas Journal and the Iraqi Ministry of Oil. Benchmark World Bank Commodity Price Data, annual and monthly, nominal US$/bbl; FY2026 holds FY2025 in the annual series and carries eight months in the monthly.