U.S. Energy Secretary Wright told an IAEA meeting the 7-day rolling average of
oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz under U.S. Navy escort is rising and
will continue to rise. He said a Sept. 1 single-day peak he previously cited as
17 mln barrels understated flows because one vessel was omitted; the actual
volume that day was almost 18 mln barrels.
