Record entry · Energy

Vitol

What is happening now

  • EXCLUSIVE: How a Vitol trader's ties to JD Vance helped land a prized Venezuela oil contract

    Reported claim · first reported 11 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

How well we know this

89 documents · 26 publishers · 3% say something specific about it · last evidence 9 Nov 2026

  • Gap: 3% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
Added 30 Sept 2026Mentions 24Sources 11Days of coverage 14

Why this name is on the record

Vitol was added automatically on 30 Sept 2026 after 24 mentions across 11 sources over 14 days. 54% of that coverage came from a single subject area.

Reported alongside Vitol

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

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For developers

GET https://api.signalbureau.ai/api/registry?slug=vitol

{
  "slug": "vitol",
  "state": "active",
  "detail": {
    "state": "active",
    "source": "ontology",
    "label": "vitol",
    "promotedAt": "2026-09-30",
    "category": "energy",
    "evidence": {
      "mentions": 24,
      "sources": 11,
      "days": 14,
      "concentration": 0.542,
      "standAloneShare": 0.5
    },
    "previouslyRetiredAt": "2026-10-30"
  }
}

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Vitol

Entity.

Evidence
89 documents · 26 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 4 Sept 2026, last seen 9 Nov 2026
Measured
3% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
12 Nov 2026
11 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (1)

  • Single source: Reported by one source so far.

Situations it is named in (0)

none on file at this cutoff

For machines: this record as JSON

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