Hormuz shipping risks resurface, WTI crude daily trading volume up 16% month-on-month.

October 14 — According to TradingBeats monitoring, Houthi forces have continued attacks on key Saudi facilities in recent days. This morning, Saudi Aramco's headquarters campus in Dhahran was hit by a missile strike, causing a limited fire in an administrative building, with no casualties reported so far. The campus houses a key operations center responsible for coordinating Saudi oil fields, pipelines, refineries, and export facilities.

Meanwhile, transportation risks in the Strait of Hormuz have continued to escalate in recent days. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) confirmed that an oil tanker and a container ship were each hit by unidentified projectiles, and the related incidents are still under investigation, fueling market concerns over tightening crude oil supply.

According to TradingBeats monitoring, as of 18:00 Beijing time, WTIOIL on Hyperliquid was quoted at about $94.24, up about 1.2% after the news was released and up about 3.4% from the same time the previous day; its 24-hour trading volume was about $136 million, with daily trading volume increasing about 16.2%.