Iran's Kharg Island Stats - TankerTrackers.com

TankerTankers.com on X posted great stats on Kharg Island for Iranian Exports.

Now that many of you have heard about Kharg Island, Iran, here are some interesting oil-related facts: – The island itself doesn’t produce oil.

There is oil that pipes in from its offshore fields, but most of the oil comes from the oilfields on the mainland. – Having shipped out 344 tankers carrying 572 million barrels over the past year at a rate of 1.567 million barrels per day, Kharg Island accounted for 95% of Iran’s crude oil exports. – There are 55 crude oil storage and blending tanks which can capacitate ~34.25 million barrels combined.

The usual occupancy swings between 33-66% full because either extreme does not benefit operations. – There are 9 operational crude oil berths for tankers to load at. Three are located at the jetty island off Kharg’s western shore.

It’s called the Azarpad. It can load three VLCC supertankers simultaneously, 2 million barrels each. – The T-Jetty (named for its shape) on the eastern side can handle up to two VLCC’s, two Suezmax (1 million barrels each), one Aframax (730K barrels) and 1 Handymax (350K barrels). – The island’s ability to quickly load tankers with oil came out of a necessity during the pre-Islamic Revolution reign of Shah Pahlavi, when Iran’s oil production peaked at over 6.6 million barrels per day.

During 2025, production was estimated to be ~3.5 Mbpd. – During the Iran-Iraq War, Saddam Hussein had bombed the island many times and had even destroyed multiple storage tanks, but tankers kept loading and exporting around 1.5 million barrels per day. –

The island also has a small jetty in its southeastern corner which outputs LPG (Liquified Petroleum Gas) along with naphtha; which finds broad use in the oil sector. –

A smaller backup site came online in 2021 along the Gulf of Oman, just south of the Strait of Hormuz. It is called the Jask Oil & Gas Terminal, which isn’t in the city of Jask, but in a sandy spot west of it called Kooh Mobarak. This site is fed by a 1,000 km long pipeline originating up the coastline, in Goreh. So far this month, two tankers loaded there; which is extraordinary as it has only loaded one tanker a year up until the latest war broke out. –

Over the past eight years since 2018-04-01, we have tracked 2,155 departures from Kharg Island carrying a combined total of 3.187 billion barrels, which works out to 1.093 million barrels per day. – We tag tankers daily on satellite imagery, identify them on behalf of our clients with the help of our visual search engine and then continue tracking their movements. With a quarter million images and nearly 10,000 tankers visually profiled, we (mostly) have very little trouble identifying the 1,485 active tankers engaging in frequent sanctions violations; also known as The Dark Fleet. This satellite image was captured today (2026-03-27) by the European Space Agency Copernicus-2 Sentinel Program. Kharg Island is located at 29.23103, 50.31437.