The directly available evidence is the original social post at https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/2045602094317711538, which makes the claim but does not show supporting data or attribution. Search results suggest some media reports repeated or attributed the figure to market-tracking data, but those reports were not fully validated in this run. The EIA source captured here is authoritative for oil-market context, yet it did not directly confirm the specific cumulative figure of 'over 500 million barrels removed' in the fetched content. Given that a number of roughly this magnitude could be arithmetically plausible if a major chokepoint disruption persisted for weeks, but authoritative primary confirmation is missing, the best assessment is insufficient evidence rather than clearly true or clearly false.