Perplexity Sonar Pro (AI Search)
Real-time web intelligence aggregation with citation tracking across thousands of news sources, market reports, and official publications
Refresh: Every 2 hours · Data types: news, market_data, geopolitical · Website
Data Sources & Methodology
Every figure on oilroute.app is traceable to a primary source. We aggregate from official agencies, news wires, financial market data providers and live AIS feeds. This page documents refresh cadence, model assumptions and the provenance chain for prices, vessel positions, geopolitical event tagging and AI-generated commentary.
Active sources
Anthropic Claude (AI Analysis)
Advanced language model powering our prediction engines, route analysis, and intelligence synthesis with state-of-the-art reasoning
Refresh: On-demand + daily · Data types: analysis, predictions, reports · Website
Reuters (News Wire)
Global news wire covering energy markets, geopolitics, and commodity trading
Refresh: Continuous · Data types: news · Website
Bloomberg (Financial Data)
Commodity pricing and energy market intelligence
Refresh: Continuous · Data types: prices, news · Website
S&P Global Platts (Market Data)
Energy benchmark pricing and market assessments
Refresh: Daily · Data types: prices, benchmarks · Website
EIA (Government)
U.S. Energy Information Administration official statistics and forecasts
Refresh: Weekly · Data types: statistics, inventory · Website
IEA (Government)
International Energy Agency monthly oil market reports and outlooks
Refresh: Monthly · Data types: reports, forecasts · Website
OPEC (Official)
OPEC Monthly Oil Market Report and production data
Refresh: Monthly · Data types: production, reports · Website
Lloyds List Intelligence (Maritime)
Vessel tracking, port data, and maritime logistics intelligence
Refresh: Daily · Data types: shipping, vessels · Website
Trading Economics (Market Data)
Real-time commodity prices and economic indicators
Refresh: Continuous · Data types: prices · Website
Methodology
Prices are sourced from S&P Global Platts, Bloomberg, Trading Economics and exchange feeds, refreshed continuously and stored in a unified time series. Vessel positions are ingested from AIS feeds and clustered by chokepoint zone. AI-generated commentary uses retrieval-augmented generation grounded in the citation set above; every claim links to a primary source.