Posted on 08/29/2014 5:38:21 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Disputed Kurdish oil tanker mysteriously goes dark off Texas coast
Reuters
By Terry Wade and Anna Louie Sussman
A tanker near Texas loaded with $100 million of disputed Iraqi Kurdish crude has disappeared from satellite tracking, the latest development in a high stakes game of cat-and-mouse between Baghdad and the Kurds.
The AIS ship tracking system used by the U.S. Coast Guard and Reuters on Thursday showed no known position for the United Kalavrvta, which was carrying 1 million barrels of crude and 95 percent full when it went dark.
The AIS ship tracking system used by the U.S. Coast Guard and Reuters on Thursday showed no known position for the United Kalavrvta, which was carrying 1 million barrels of crude and 95 percent full when it went dark.
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Headed for New Orleans...and a dozen ISIS guys on board, I bet.
Tanker reappears on tracking system, and it’s still in the area
http://fuelfix.com/blog/2014/08/28/tracking-silence-may-mean-tanker-has-sailed/
August 28, 2014
After more than two days of silence, an oil tanker at the center of a legal dispute over its cargo signaled this morning that it still is anchored 60 miles off Galveston. A maritime tracking system had not detected the tanker United Kalavryta since Monday night when a court ruling made it likely the legal battle will continue.
The United Kalavryta is too large for the Houston Ship Channel, so it anchored in an area where such vessels transfer their cargo to smaller ones in a process called lightering.
A maritime tracking system had picked up a signal confirming its position every few hours since then until Monday night, when the signal ceased after a judge’s ruling left the door open to continuing litigation.
The tracking system is in place in many ports, but does not cover most open ocean.
“Headed for New Orleans...and a dozen ISIS guys on board, I bet.”
Don’t forget ebola too.
If you can reconcile ISIS and Kurdish oil sales you should be able to get ebola in there too.
What about Bat Boy?
No joke, I live on the coast near a port and have considered what would happen if a boat load of these clowns on a suicide mission landed here ala an WW2 Island raider mission. Needless to say I keep an LR 10 ready to go but I am just one of many potential targets here and surely would not survive an all out assault.
Then again, the county sheriff just got a boatload of AR15s from military surplus! However, I heard he has his guys out doing “safety checks”, AKA some BS vehicle stops, today on cars heading down the road.
Given that the ship has been able to evade international authorities and maritime tracking the only logical conclusion is that the tanker is captained by Bat Boy.
OK so now a plane full of people and a tanker full of oil have totally disappeared.
You seem confused about who the Kurdish people are.
Ignorance can be stunning sometimes.
Tanker’s signal resumes, indicates it’s still nearby
HOUSTON — After more than two days of silence, an oil tanker at the center of a
legal dispute over its cargo of oil from Kurdistan signaled Thursday that it still is
anchored 60 miles off Galveston.
The maritime tracking system that picked up the signal hadn’t detected the tanker
United Kalavryta since Monday night when a court ruling made it likely the legal
battle will continue.
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Ah, lightering, a process that takes place every day and hardly anyone knows about it. When we first tried to test wells offshore to barges or tankers or to do FPSO with tanker transport and pointed out that what we planned was no more risky than lightering.. we were told “its different” but nobody could explain how it was different.
Ignorance is bliss isn’t it?
Remember the Mega Borg? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Borg_Oil_Spill
The only thing that kept that from becoming horrible was a big fire and the big fire was because of light oil.
And transport of crude by train is so much safer than pipelines too.
>>When we first tried to test wells offshore to barges or tankers <<
Would you mind rephrasing this. I have no idea what you are trying to say.
I am not confused, I was extrapolating from the reported item. I am concerned about a what could situation happen with a bunch of ISIS guys on any vessel. There seems to be no shortage of ocean going hunks out there.
I’m wondering if they went dark just long enough to offload their cargo...
Excellent detective work there!
:-)
It is not a matter of phrasing. It is a matter of knowledge.
That may be true however I cannot locate anyone else saying “test wells offshore to barges or tankers”.
Something appears to be missing, misplaced or perhaps misspelled in that short phrase.
How do you test a well offshore to a barge or a tanker? What type of test are you performing? Are you testing an offshore well to a barge?
It is not quite vernacular but the subject is well testing. If you can’t burn the oil you have to produce it to a tank such as a barge or small tanker via floating hose. This is the same floating hose that is used for lightering.
Few people can even guess how much care for safety and the environment and cost and general integrity of operations are taken to deliver a gallon of gasoline to their tank.
I’ve always worked downstream, from the earth to the tank, refining is a whole other equally large dimension of the oil industry.
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