Tag: oil tanker
UK ‘SBS’ special forces storm tanker and detain stowaways in Channel
British special forces stormed a Greek-operated oil tanker in the English channel on Sunday to wrestle control of the vessel from seven stowaways who...
Tanker attacks seen as calibrated but risky Iranian response to U.S....
If, despite its firm denials, Iran was behind attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf last week and a further four last month,...
U.S. blames Iran for tanker attacks in Gulf of Oman, Iran...
The United States blamed Iran for attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday that drove up oil prices and...
Houthi attack damages Saudi ship off Yemen coast
Yemen's Houthi movement attacked a Saudi oil tanker in the Red Sea, causing slight damage, the Western-backed Arab coalition said on Wednesday,...
U.N. Security Council removes Libyan oil tanker from blacklist
The United Nations Security Council on Thursday removed from a U.N. blacklist an Indian-flagged tanker that was recently prevented from shipping oil...
Blacklisted oil tanker returns to Libya’s Zawiya port
A tanker that Libya's rival eastern government had been using to try to export oil in defiance of the Western-backed administration in...
Eastern Libya ships first oil cargo in defiance of Tripoli
A government based in eastern Libya has shipped its first cargo of crude in defiance of authorities in the capital Tripoli, a...
Libyan naval forces in Tripoli say have seized foreign tanker
Libyan naval forces have seized a Sierra Leone-flagged oil tanker on suspicion of illegally entering Libyan waters in an attempt to smuggle...
Libya’s Tripoli govt captures Russia-flagged tanker smuggling oil
Military forces allied with Libya's self-declared government in Tripoli said on Wednesday they had captured a Russian-flagged oil tanker and its crew...
Second small oil tanker hijacked in Malaysia this month
A small oil tanker was hijacked off the southeast coast of Malaysia over the weekend in the second such incident in the...
Libya returns fuel tanker to rival government
Libya's recognised government has released a tanker forced to dock at a port under its control after originally banning it from delivering...
Libyan warplane bombs Greek-operated oil tanker at port, two dead
A Libyan warplane from forces loyal to the internationally recognized government bombed a Greek-operated oil tanker anchored offshore, killing two crewmen in...
U.S. forces seize tanker carrying oil from Libya rebel port
U.S. special forces have seized a tanker that fled with a cargo of oil from a Libyan port, the U.S. Department of...
Ousted Libyan PM flees country after tanker escapes rebel-held port
Former Libyan prime minister Ali Zeidan has fled to Europe after parliament voted him out of office on Tuesday over his failure...
Tanker coming from Libyan rebel port entered Egyptian waters
Libya's navy has lost contact with an oil tanker that loaded oil in a rebel-held port and has now slipped into Egyptian...
Libya says halts tanker outside rebel port, plans military offensive
Libya on Monday stopped a North Korean-flagged tanker that had loaded oil from a rebel-held port, after naval forces briefly exchanged fire...
Tanker hijacked off Angola in Jan returned, minus $8 million of...
An oil tanker hijacked for a week off Angola in January has been returned to the country's authorities, a board member at...
Pirates free Greek ship after ransom paid
Somali pirates freed the Greek ship Ariana and its 24 Ukrainian crew yesterday after a helicopter dropped a multi-million dollar ransom onto...
