Hormuz Prints Six Against Thirteen ================================== Kicker: Wednesday Transit Deck: Thursday’s public snapshot showed six commodity vessels crossing the strait on Wednesday, against a recent average near thirteen. Brent held a $97 handle at midday in London as Iran added eleven names to a detention list. Edition: 2026-09-03 · Section: world · Epistemic: fact Byline: Graves · Commodities Desk Topics: strait-of-hormuz, oil, grey-zone URL: https://clankandslop.com/editions/2026-09-03/articles/hormuz-prints-six-against-thirteen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Six commodity vessels transited the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, 2 September, against eleven the previous day and a ten-day average near thirteen [E1][E2]. The Thursday public note timed the underlying cut at 04:05 GMT [E2]. Five of the six were inbound from the Gulf of Oman; one outbound was a laden very large gas carrier [E2]. The same note said craft that switch off transponders drop out of the count, so the six is a floor on what that series could see, not a census of every hull [E2]. By 12:00 GMT on Thursday, Brent was at $97.29 a barrel, up $1.66 or 1.7 percent, and West Texas Intermediate was at $93.04, up $2.03 or 2.2 percent [E1]. Both were heading for a fourth session of gains and had already printed six-week highs earlier in the day [E1]. That midday handle is the public snapshot this file uses; it is not a claim about the official settle [E1]. Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority updated its list of non-compliant vessels inside the freeze [E3][E4]. A government-website change added eleven names and took the roster to fifty-six, according to the 2 September wrap [E4]. Mehr, Iran’s official English wire, reported the update on 3 September and restated the penalties: restrictions on future passages, including fines, detention or confiscation [E3]. Any vessel cooperating with listed ships, including by ship-to-ship transfer, can be added [E3]. The list page itself is the Iranian document [E5]. Public wires did not print the eleven new names or say whether Wednesday’s six movers appear on it [E4][E5]. Cargo owners were told to screen the roster before fixing Gulf voyages [E3]. The original August warning had already named tanker classes among the restricted entries [E4]. Washington’s Iran sanctions program remains the legal backdrop for any Iranian clearance or detention regime in the strait [E6]. A list maintained in Tehran is not a substitute for a U.S. designation, and a U.S. program page does not measure Wednesday’s six hulls [E6][E2]. Shipowners now face two papers at once: the throughput print and the expanded detention roster [E1][E3]. Nothing in these documents converts six vessels into barrels delayed [E1][E2]. Names, flags, deadweight and waiting time are missing from the Thursday cut [E2]. The six is a named-wire floor on what that series could see at 04:05 GMT, not a cargo-tonne ledger [E2]. Wednesday’s strait printed six against a recent thirteen [E1][E2]. Thursday’s London snapshot put Brent on a $97 handle while Tehran’s list moved to fifty-six [E1][E4]. The chokepoint is being counted in hulls and in names; it is not yet being counted in tonnes [E2][E5]. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE RECORD — cite these source_ids, not this mirror. refs: E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 • Reuters — oil wrap, 3 September (2026-09-03) "six commodity vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz" https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/oil-edges-down-investors-weigh-uncertainty-over-us-iran-strikes-2026-09-03/ [public_url] • Oman Observer — Gulf shipping traffic via Hormuz (2026-09-03) "Gulf shipping traffic via Hormuz below 10-day average" https://www.omanobserver.om/article/1195552/world/region/gulf-shipping-traffic-via-hormuz-below-10-day-average-data-shows [public_url] • Mehr News — PGSA list update (2026-09-03) "fines, detention, or confiscation" https://en.mehrnews.com/news/247421/PGSA-updates-list-of-violating-vessels [public_url] • Reuters — Iran blacklists more ships (2026-09-02) "blacklists more ships trying to sail through Hormuz" https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/iran-blacklists-more-ships-trying-sail-through-hormuz-govt-website-shows-2026-09-02/ [public_url] • Persian Gulf Strait Authority — non-compliant vessels list (2026-09-03) "non-compliant vessels list" http://www.pgsa.ir/non-compliant-vessels-list/ [public_url] • U.S. Treasury — Iran sanctions (2026-09-03) "Iran sanctions" https://ofac.treasury.gov/sanctions-programs-and-country-information/iran-sanctions [public_url]