The Node Update — 9–10 September 2026

Diesel broke the old high. Brent settled at $101.21. The year-ahead average in the government outlook is still $91.

• Two pump surveys, one direction
• Iran’s ten-ship claim is not Tuesday’s five hulls
• TTF through €79.25 on a thin European store
• Enbridge $2.55 billion for Tallgrass
• Thursday noon is the next official U.S. oil table

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The Node Update — 8 to 9 September 2026

U.S. Central Command named five Iranian crude carriers after two missile attempts on a Navy warship. The pump did not take a second record.

• Hulls: Kaviz (AP: Kivik), Charminar, Horizon 1, Riesco, Derya. Iranian TV counted ports, not five names.
• Saudi energy ministry halted southern sites. Coalition: 73 wounded.
• ICE Brent settled $97.92. Session high $99.46. AAA diesel $5.9012 against Monday’s $5.9015.
• Dutch TTF settled €75.84 after a €77.90 high. The 2 Sep line is gone.
• German storage near 55 percent. Berlin said no fill intervention.
• DOE order for PJM was written to expire 11:59 p.m. Eastern 8 Sep.

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The Node Update — 4 to 8 September 2026

Labor Day took the American diesel record. Thursday had left the pump short. Monday finished it. The weekly oil and gas tables still wait until Thursday.

• Three named tankers on Saturday. Sunday was quiet.

• Kpler’s Hormuz average: ten commodity ships a day.

• Jazan hit in sourced reports. Aramco has not posted.

• OPEC+ left October where September sat.

• Europe 66.6 percent full. Ninety percent is still 1 November.

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The Node Update — Sept. 2 to 3, 2026

U.S. diesel at the pump reached $5.783 a gallon. That is 3.3 cents under the June 2022 high of $5.816. The weekly stock report was already on the page. Thursday showed what the shortage costs.

• Working gas built 30 billion cubic feet to 3,214
• Dutch TTF gave back the move above €75
• Hormuz: six ships after four. Wright said 17 million barrels. An escort line said 40 hulls.
• Mongolia is rationing Russian fuel
• P J M called an energy emergency. Visayas and Mindanao sat on nine-hour red alerts.

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The Node Update — 1–3 Sep 2026

American refineries ran near 98 percent. East Coast distillate still printed 19.318 million barrels. Commercial crude fell 4.5 million to 424.5 million and sat mid-range.

• Two Filipino sailors killed on Sidr. Tuesday’s piece had no casualties.
• Wright: 17 million barrels through Hormuz Monday. Kpler: four commodity ships Tuesday.
• TTF above €75. EU tanks 65.39 percent full, under 2022 and the five-year book.
• Ten Northwest Europe cargoes next week. Eight of them American.
• PJM maximum-generation and load-management alerts. Thursday peak near 152 gigawatts.

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The Node Update — 31 August to 1 September 2026

Two Saudi crude carriers took projectiles off Oman while already loaded. Brent settled after the hulls, not the island. Iran’s August loadings almost stopped.

• Sidr and Senegal Prosperity, about 2 million barrels each
• Brent $94.65. West Texas $90.22
• Iran 220,000 to 255,000 barrels a day in August
• Texas froze new data-center hookups on a 474-gigawatt list
• U.S. LNG averaged 17.4 billion cubic feet a day in the first half
• Visayas red alert. Watch Wednesday on P J M

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The Node Update — 31 Aug to 1 Sep 2026

The United States struck the IRGC base on Larak Island, at the mouth of Hormuz. Brent settled $90.49. The tanker counts still do not match.

• Asia sent diesel toward Africa near 360,000 barrels a day
• SPR prints split: EIA 289.7 million barrels, a DOE figure 286.6
• Caracas title still unsigned; no Monday cargo
• PJM heat alert through Wednesday, 155.8 GW on the sheet
• Spain averaged €106.51; some midday hours printed €0

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The Node Update — 28–30 Aug 2026

Qatar told Italy the gas will not come. Force majeure now runs to early November. Five cargoes stay on the dock. Washington claimed a title to more than 65 billion barrels. No cargo was booked to the reserve.

• Pakistan shed about 3,600 megawatts after a delayed cargo
• Moscow extended the producer diesel ban to 30 Sept
• Asian spot liquefied gas printed $23.388 on Friday
• P J M posted heat-alert peaks under a typical 156.4 GW summer day
• Europe remains near 63 percent full, the emptiest for the date since 2009

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The Node Update — Thursday, 27 August 2026

America put only 15 billion cubic feet of gas into storage last week. A mid-August week usually takes 33. The Gulf tanks and the salt caves withdrew while export plants pulled harder.

• Europe sits about 63% full, the emptiest for this date since 2009. Germany is 51.6%.
• Britain’s contracted demand queue ran from 41 GW to 125 GW. Data centres are 73 GW of that, against a 45 GW peak.
• X said 200 accounts inside a 200,000-account farm posted on U.S. AI and power bills. The auction and the queue are still real.
• TenneT says data halls and batteries have overwhelmed the German list.
• The U.S. Army awarded up to $2.2 billion for first microreactors on five bases.
• Freeport is near 2 Bcf/d again. Five cargo ships in the Strait against a usual 15.

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The Node Update — Wednesday, 26 August 2026

Oil fell after Iran and Oman discussed a Hormuz shipping lane. Kpler counted five cargo ships. PortWatch printed three. A normal day was seventy to eighty-five.

• Qatar loaded 18 LNG cargoes in six months against 509• U.S. crude +95,000 barrels; gasoline −2.5 million; distillate −2.2 million• Lukoil’s Norsi plant halted after a drone strike• TTF eased to €66.59; EU storage about 63% full• PJM bought 138.3 GW of credits and 317 MW of new plants• Nvidia guided $108 billion with no China data-center sales

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