Main question

How do security issues, such as the governance of oil transit choke points, affect maritime trade?

• Resource A

  
  

  Data from a report published by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (August, 2017)

  
  

  Volume of crude oil and petroleum products transported through world chokepoints

  (million barrels per day)

  
  

  Source: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=32292

• Resource B

  
  

  Daily transit volumes through world maritime oil chokepoints

  
  
  
  
  

  All estimates in million barrels per day. Includes crude oil and petroleum liquids. Based on 2016 data.

  
  

  Volume of crude oil and petroleum products transported through world chokepoints and the Cape of Good Hope, 2011-16 (million b/d)

  
  

  Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration https://www.eia.gov/beta/international/regions-topics.cfm?RegionTopicID=WOTC

• Resource C

  
  

  Locations		2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
  Strait of Hormuz		17.0	16.8	16.6	16.9	17.0	18.5
  Strait of Malacca		14.5	15.1	15.4	15.5	15.5	16.0
  Suez Canal and SUMED pipeline		3.8	4.5	4.6	5.2	5.4	5.5
  Bab el-Mandab		3.3	3.6	3.8	4.3	4.7	4.8
  Danish Straits		3.0	3.3	3.1	3.0	3.2	3.2
  Turkish Straits		2.9	2.7	2.6	2.6	2.4	2.4
  Panama Canal		0.8	0.8	0.8	0.9	1.0	0.9
  Cape of Good Hope		4.7	5.4	5.1	4.9	5.1	5.8
  World maritime oil trade		55.5	56.4	56.5	56.4	58.9	n/a
  World total petroleum and other liquids supply		88.8	90.8	91.3	93.8	96.7	97.2

  
  
  

  Source: U.S. Energy Information Administrationhttps://www.eia.gov/beta/international/regions-topics.cfm?RegionTopicID=WOTC