Oil Storage, From Orbit

A satellite monitor of the world's most important crude-oil storage hubs, imaged by the EU's Sentinel-2 satellites and updated as new clear captures land. Scrub a time slider to watch each tank farm fill and empty over the months: Cushing (the WTI delivery hub, anchored to official EIA fill data), China's Zhoushan and Dalian reserves, Saudi Arabia's Ras Tanura export terminal, Rotterdam's Maasvlakte oil terminal, and Singapore's Jurong Island. A shadow-highlight mode marks the low-fill tanks. Estimates from public 10 m imagery are approximate and experimental — not investment advice.

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TANK WATCH

Oil storage, from orbit

The world's key crude-storage hubs, imaged by the EU's Sentinel-2 satellites. Drag the slider to watch each tank farm change over the past months. Cushing is anchored to official EIA data; the rest are experimental satellite readings. Red marks the shadowed (lower-fill) side of tanks — a visual aid, not an exact measure.

⚠️ Experimental — not investment advice. Estimates are derived from public 10 m satellite imagery: approximate, lagging, and affected by cloud cover. Only Cushing shows an official fill figure (EIA); all other numbers are relative satellite indices, not verified barrel counts. Do not trade on this.