JH(@CRUDEOIL231):I looked up Sentinel-3 satellite imagery for cross-validation. ESA also runs the Sentinel-3. While Sentinel-2 is essentially just a single high-res multispectral optical payload (MSI), Sentinel-3 packs a whole suite of sensors; optical (OLCI), precision thermal radiometry (SLSTR), and radar altimetry (SRAL). The spatial resolution gets chopped hard versus Sentinel-2 and the swath is huge, but it's more than sharp enough to flag severe thermal anomalies across open desert scrub. Breaking down the frames. OLCI is the familiar optical sensor. Pulled the OLCI L1B baseline imagery and ran the Highlight Optimized Natural Color processing layer to keep the blown out white pixels from clipping over high-albedo terrain. Then you have SLSTR L1B—provides the baseline thermal infrared and optical observations. It is used to verify sea/land surface radiant temperatures and active fire pixels. I selected the F1 Brightness Temperature layer, a dedicated mid-wave/thermal infrared band designed specifically for active fires (such as wildfires and gas flares). The delta between yesterday's pass and today is night and day. Again: zero interest in feeding the toxic bull/bear crossfire. Just sharing OSINT observations through open source feeds. #oott #iran

2026.09.10 21:15

I looked up Sentinel-3 satellite imagery for cross-validation. ESA also runs the Sentinel-3. While Sentinel-2 is essentially just a single high-res multispectral optical payload (MSI), Sentinel-3 packs a whole suite of sensors; optical (OLCI), precision thermal radiometry (SLSTR), and radar altimetry (SRAL). The spatial resolution gets chopped hard versus Sentinel-2 and the swath is huge, but it's more than sharp enough to flag severe thermal anomalies across open desert scrub. Breaking down the frames. OLCI is the familiar optical sensor. Pulled the OLCI L1B baseline imagery and ran the Highlight Optimized Natural Color processing layer to keep the blown out white pixels from clipping over high-albedo terrain. Then you have SLSTR L1B—provides the baseline thermal infrared and optical observations. It is used to verify sea/land surface radiant temperatures and active fire pixels. I selected the F1 Brightness Temperature layer, a dedicated mid-wave/thermal infrared band designed specifically for active fires (such as wildfires and gas flares). The delta between yesterday's pass and today is night and day. Again: zero interest in feeding the toxic bull/bear crossfire. Just sharing OSINT observations through open source feeds. #oott# #iran#

JH@CRUDEOIL231

2026.09.10 19:55

Looks like the Houthis might have actually scored a direct hit on the E/W pipeline. Confidence flag is tagged at maximum, and FRP printing above 70 MW blows way past conventional fire(~30 MW). FRP >70 MW scream high-pressure crude rupture and blowout conflagration. Brightness is literally maxing out and clipping the saturation cap on the VIIRS I4 band. Cross-referencing the delta between VIIRS and MODIS orbital passes, FRP anomaly printed 60+ MW for an 8 hour duration minimum. A garden-variety valve leak or routine gas venting simply cannot sustain that burn duration or heat signature. Faded the controlled burn or flare stack hypothesis too. Pump stations sit dozens of clicks apart on the ROW, but these heat anomalies are tightly clustered along a sub-10km stretch. No normal maintenance operation or controlled burn is conducted on such a massive scale simultaneously across multiple points spaced just kilometers apart along the pipeline route. Something definitely went down. #oott# #iran#