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Life & fun · July 23, 2026

I simulated closing the Strait of Hormuz on real oil trade data

OP here: I created this visualization tool as the byproduct of a supply chain class I taught at Columbia. The pedagogical exercise grew into a full blown visualization and paper about global oil trade. The model: The mechanics are the same as the financial network Eisenberg-Noe: Instead of banks, every country consumes oil interconnected via bilateral trading. Shocks propagate throughout the network, depleting oil reserves when bottleneck nodes (such as the Strait of Hormuz) are blocked. Insights: The interesting part is the mechanics of how the crisis unfolds: for example, France receives 0…

I simulated closing the Strait of Hormuz on real oil trade data launched on July 23, 2026 with 244 votes, #123 of 24,623 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches.

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This visualization tool models how disruptions to global oil trade propagate through supply chains using real trade data. Designed for educators and policy analysts, it simulates scenarios like closing the Strait of Hormuz to show how crises spread across interconnected trading networks. The tool demonstrates second-order effects—such as how price increases affect countries indirectly, even when they don't directly depend on a blocked chokepoint—revealing the complex mechanics of oil market dynamics during geopolitical shocks.

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From the sources

Interactive stress-testing simulator of the global crude oil trade network, built on UN Comtrade data. Close the Strait of Hormuz and watch shortages, prices, and reserve drawdowns cascade country by country.

In the maker’s words, at launch

OP here: I created this visualization tool as the byproduct of a supply chain class I taught at Columbia. The pedagogical exercise grew into a full blown visualization and paper about global oil trade. The model: The mechanics are the same as the financial network Eisenberg-Noe: Instead of banks, every country…

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