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  • Houthi missile strike ignites oil tanker in Gulf of Aden sending crew in life boats

    01/26/2024 7:19:08 PM PST · by Paul R. · 39 replies
    NBC - You Tube ^ | 1/26/2024 | NBC News
    A Houthi missile shot and ignited an oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden, forcing a crew on the commercial ship into life boats. The attack appears to have caused the most serious damage to any of the ships hit by Houthi missiles since the Israel-Hamas war started.
  • BREAKING. US Navy Rescues Hijacked Israeli-Managed Oil Tanker and Captures Houthi Pirates

    11/26/2023 6:19:05 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 87 replies
    Red State ^ | 11/26/2023 | Streiff
    A US destroyer intercepted a hijacked Israeli-managed oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden earlier today, freed the crew, and took the Houthi pirates into custody. My colleague Jeff Charles covered the piracy in this post, High Seas Drama: Another Israeli Tanker Seized by Unidentified Attackers Near Yemen.Shortly after dawn local time, the Central Park, a small Liberian-flagged oil and chemical tanker managed by an Israeli company registered in London, sent a distress call saying it was being boarded by armed men. The USS Mason, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, was operating in the area. According to reports, the Mason directed...
  • Attackers seize an Israel-linked tanker off Yemen in a third such assault during the Israel-Hamas war (full of Phosphoric Acid)

    11/26/2023 6:49:51 AM PST · by C210N · 27 replies
    AP ^ | 11/26/23 | JON GAMBRELL
    DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Attackers seized a tanker linked to Israel off the coast of Aden, Yemen, on Sunday, authorities said. While no group immediately claimed responsibility, it comes as at least two other maritime attacks in recent days have been linked to the Israel-Hamas war...."...The vessel is carrying a full cargo of phosphoric acid.”
  • US to deploy Marines on commercial tankers to deter Iranian seizures

    08/03/2023 11:59:40 PM PDT · by Texan4Life · 72 replies
    France 24 ^ | August 3, 2023 | News Wires
    "There is an effort... to employ security details composed of both Marines and Navy sailors on commercial tankers transiting in and near the Strait of Hormuz as an added layer of defense for these vulnerable ships," the official told AFP on condition of anonymity. An invitation is needed to do so because the ships are private vessels, but "we are undergoing preparations to execute should final agreements be in place to do that," the official said. The United States is boosting its forces operating in the region, announcing last month that it would deploy a destroyer, F-35 and F-16 warplanes,...
  • Iran seizes second oil tanker in a week, US Navy says

    05/03/2023 8:23:23 AM PDT · by nuconvert · 21 replies
    FoxNews ^ | May 3, 2023
    Oil tanker Niovi, sailing under Panamanian flag, captured by Iran in Strait of Hormuz Iranian forces captured a foreign vessel on Wednesday, the second ship to be harassed and seized by the Middle Eastern country in a week, the U.S. Navy said. The Niovi, a commercial oil tanker flying the Panama flag, was passing through the Strait of Hormuz between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman when it was overtaken by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN)
  • Iran seized oil tanker headed for Texas, U.S. Navy says

    04/27/2023 6:43:08 AM PDT · by PghBaldy · 41 replies
    Associated Press / NBC News ^ | 27 April 2023 | Staff
    The U.S. Navy said Iran seized a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday amid wider tensions over Tehran’s nuclear program. The Navy’s Mideast-based 5th Fleet identified the vessel as the Advantage Sweet. Satellite tracking data for the vessel from MarineTraffic.com showed it in the Gulf of Oman just north of Oman’s capital, Muscat, on Thursday afternoon. It had just come from Kuwait and listed its destination as Houston, Texas.
  • Climate Activists Glue Themselves to a Tanker Full of Cooking Oil Mistaking It For Crude Oil

    03/14/2023 9:22:49 AM PDT · by Libloather · 41 replies
    eBaum's World via MSN ^ | 3/13/23 | danielbonfiglio
    Climate activists across Europe have pulled plenty of stunts over the past year, from throwing soup on a Van Gogh painting, to gluing themselves to various objects and roadways. In this embarrassing incident, British activists glued themselves to an oil tanker in Essex. The only problem? The tanker was carrying cooking oil, not crude oil. Big oil has been a primary target of protests like this one from the beginning, and the activism group Just Stop Oil is behind many of the aforementioned demonstrations. These protestors are part of a Just Stop Oil offshoot called Extinction Rebellion, which released a...
  • Nord Stream mystery: the tanker Minerva Julie spent 7 days idling near the attack site

    03/11/2023 6:49:24 PM PST · by Mariner · 76 replies
    Business Insider via Yahoo ^ | March 11th, 2023 | Mattathias Schwartz
    The question of who blew up the Nord Stream pipelines is likely to remain an unsolved mystery for some time.Even as new details surface from European investigators, one of the most intriguing clues to recently emerge comes not from official probes but via a 29-year-old open-source analyst based in Denmark. Oliver Alexander spent months analyzing data from the maritime Automatic Identification System, or AIS, from vessels that passed near the site of three out of the four pipeline ruptures shortly before the damage. He noticed that the Minerva Julie, a 600-foot Greek-flagged tanker, was headed east from Rotterdam when, on...
  • BREAKING. FAA Shuts Down Airspace in Montana Due to National Security

    02/11/2023 7:50:49 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 4 replies
    Red State ^ | 02/11/2023 | streiff
    Saturday, the FAA issued a Notice to Air Missions (or whatever they’re calling it this week) closing northern Montana airspace “to support Department of Defense activities.” According to FlightRadar24.com, a USAF KC-135 tanker flying without a callsign is boring holes in the sky in the restricted airspace. This implies something is on the way to that location that will need gas.The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has declined to provide further information.The newly restricted area is on the same route as the Chinese spy balloon shot down a week ago.This comes only hours after a US F-22 splashed another...
  • Anonymous Chinese shipowner spends $376m on tankers for Russian STS hub. ( England and .. mentioned )

    08/13/2022 7:43:23 AM PDT · by george76 · 13 replies
    Lloyd’s List ^ | 09 Aug 2022 | Michelle Wiese Bockmann
    Thirteen tankers at heart of new ship-to-ship transhipment hub established mid-Atlantic to consolidate Russia-origin oil cargoes ... Evolving marine transport model seeks tankers to operate outside established markets, yet remain compliant with class, insurance and other regulatory and technical rules ... MYSTERY surrounds the identity of a China-based shipowner who has spent around $376m to acquire 13 tankers for deployment in high-risk, ship-to-ship transfers of Russia-origin crude in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Lloyd’s List has tracked five aframax tankers, seven very large crude carriers and one suezmax vessel to the anonymous buyer, via 20 separate but interconnected single-ship...
  • German-flagged tanker carrying Russian oil is marooned as dock workers refuse to deal with vessel after it arrived in UK

    03/05/2022 7:43:14 AM PST · by knighthawk · 13 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | March 05 2022 | CHAY QUINN
    British dock workers have refused to deal with a tanker carrying Russian oil because of the invasion of Ukraine. The SeaCod is currently moored at Birkenhead Docks near the Stanlow Oil Refinery in the North West but dock workers have taken a stand and refuse to unload it. The German-flagged vessel does not come under the terms of the UK's ban on Russian shipping because the ban does not apply to contents.
  • Oil tanker capable of carrying 2 million barrels explodes off coast of Nigeria

    02/03/2022 9:47:46 AM PST · by BenLurkin · 33 replies
    NY Post ^ | February 3, 2022 | Anthony Blair,
    Dramatic video shows the immense ship ablaze with thick black smoke pouring into the sky as it appears to be sinking into the sea. None of the ship’s 10 crew members on board at the time of the explosion have been accounted for, according to the oil firm which owns the ship. Reports claim the Trinity Spirit exploded on Thursday morning at the Ukpokiti oil field close to the River Niger delta near the Escravos terminal in Nigeria. The cause of the explosion is still being investigated, according to Ikemefuna Okafor, chief executive of Shebah Exploration & Production Company Ltd...
  • 91 people dead in fuel tanker blast in Sierra Leone capital

    11/06/2021 5:36:11 AM PDT · by dynachrome · 15 replies
    Daily Sabah ^ | 11-6-21 | Reuters
    Ninety-one people were killed and over 100 wounded in the capital of Sierra Leone on Friday when a fuel tanker exploded following a collision, the central morgue and local authorities said. The government has not yet confirmed the death toll, but the manager of the central state morgue in Freetown said it had received 91 bodies following the explosion. A further 100 casualties have been admitted for treatment at hospitals and clinics across the capital, deputy health minister Amara Jambai told Reuters. Victims included people who had flocked to collect fuel leaking from the ruptured vehicle, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, mayor of...
  • 2nd woman convicted of railroad track sabotage in Washington 32 minutes ago

    09/11/2021 5:13:32 PM PDT · by Robwin · 25 replies
    Newsbreak ^ | 09/09/21 | The Associated Press
    SEATTLE — A second defendant has been convicted of sabotaging railroad tracks near the U.S.-Canada border in Washington state just before a train carrying crude oil was due to pass through — apparently part of a campaign to protest construction of a pipeline across British Columbia.Following a two-day trial and three hours of deliberation, a federal jury in Seattle on Thursday convicted Ellen Brennan Reiche, 28, of Bellingham, of violence against a railroad carrier. Her co-defendant, Samantha Frances Brooks, 24, pleaded guilty in July.
  • Daring Israel and US to act, Hezbollah says Iran fuel tanker to sail to Lebanon

    08/19/2021 5:16:45 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 11 replies
    Hezbollah terror group chief Hassan Nasrallah said Thursday a tanker would set off from Iran “within hours” to bring desperately needed fuel supplies to Lebanon, in defiance of US sanctions. Many questions remain about how the shipment would reach its stated destination, where acute and growing fuel shortages have forced hospitals, businesses and government offices shut amid a crippling economic crisis. But the move, prohibited by US sanctions on Iran’s oil industry, could drag Lebanon into the covert naval war between Tehran and Israel. Nasrallah dared Iran’s foes to stop the shipment. “The vessel, from the moment it sails in...
  • Iran army chief threatens to ‘teach Israel a good lesson’ after tanker targeted

    04/25/2021 1:35:03 PM PDT · by dynachrome · 13 replies
    Times of Israel ^ | 4-25-21 | TOI STAFF
    Iran’s Armed Forces chief Mohammad Bagheri on Sunday threatened to “teach Israel a very good lesson,” appearing to hint the Jewish state was behind a reported attack on an Iranian tanker off Syria’s coast over the weekend, but stopping short of blaming Jerusalem directly for the incident. Bagheri told reporters: “We don’t announce anything about the incidents that happened recently, nor do we know who did it, but the Resistance Front will teach Israel a very good lesson,” according to several Iranian journalists. “Israelis think they can keep hitting Syria and making mischievous moves elsewhere and in the seas and...
  • South Korea Sending Troops, Contacting Other Nations After Iran Seizes Ship

    01/05/2021 4:20:24 AM PST · by RomanSoldier19 · 29 replies
    newsweak via msn ^ | 1/5/2021 | Tom O'Connor
    South Korea is sending military forces to respond to the seizure of one of its tankers by Iran, an endeavor in which it is seeking to work with other nations operating in the region Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard announced Monday that its Zulfiqar fleet had seized a South Korean vessel operating in the Islamic Republic's First Naval District in the Persian Gulf "due to a series of violations of marine environmental laws" after it departed from Saudi Arabia's Al-Jubail port. The ship, Hankuk Chemi, was said to be transporting up to 7,200 tons of oil-based chemicals, and carrying a crew...
  • First Iranian oil tanker docks in Venezuela

    05/25/2020 3:38:45 PM PDT · by buckalfa · 29 replies
    AFP ^ | May 25, 2020 | AFP
    The first of five Iranian tankers carrying much-needed gasoline and oil derivatives docked in Venezuela on Monday, Caracas announced amid concern in Washington over the burgeoning relationship between countries it sees as international pariahs. In a statement delivered on state television, Oil Minister Tareck El Aissami said the convoy was an expression of the Venezuelan people's "self-determination" and praised Tehran's friendship at a time of need.
  • Iran seizes oil tanker carrying 'smuggled fuel' in Persian Gulf, state media reports

    08/04/2019 7:04:28 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 16 replies
    Fox News ^ | August 4, 2019 | Nicole Darrah
    The ship was seized on Wednesday near Farsi Island, where an Iranian Guard Navy base is located, the news outlet reported. The island sits in the Persian Gulf between Saudi Arabia and Iran, north of the Strait of Hormuz. Further information on the vessel, and the nationality of crew members, was not immediately clear. The seizure marked the third such incident involving a commercial vessel in recent weeks — and the second accused of smuggling fuel. The U.S. Fifth Fleet, based in Bahrain, told The Associated Press it did not have information to confirm the reports. Maritime tracking experts also...
  • Pompeo...capture of British-flagged tanker: Up to ‘United Kingdom to take care of their ships’

    07/22/2019 12:23:27 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 87 replies
    Fox News ^ | Greg Norman |
    Pompeo said the “the United States has a responsibility to do our part, but the world’s got a big role in this too – to keep these sea lanes open.” He added that Iran’s recent behavior should alarm nations around the globe. “We don’t want war with Iran. We want them to behave like a normal nation. I think they understand that and I think the whole world is waking up to the fact that this threat is real,” Pompeo told "Fox & Friends." “It’s not just a threat against America, it’s not just a threat against Israel. It’s a...