Ship-to-Ship Oil Transfers Surge Off India’s West Coast

The waters outside the Strait of Hormuz have been so overcrowded with ship-to-ship transfers to keep oil flowing out of the Persian Gulf that the STS operations are expanding into India’s West Coast. A total of 82 cargoes, or about 680,000 barrels per day (bpd), were transferred onto larger ships in the Indian Gulf of Kutch in September, according to vessel-tracking data by Vortexa cited by The Na