"If Britain does not release the Iranian oil tanker, it is the authorities duty to seize a British oil tanker," he wrote.
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"If Britain does not release the Iranian oil tanker, it is the authorities' duty to seize a British oil tanker," Mohsen Rezai tweeted.
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"If Britain does not release the Iranian oil tanker, it is the authorities' duty to seize a British oil tanker," Mohsen Rezai said on Twitter.
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"If Britain does not release the Iranian oil tanker, it is the (Iranian) authorities duty to seize a British oil tanker," Mohsen Rezai said in a tweet.
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Iranian oil tanker An Iranian oil tanker was hit and damaged by two missiles today, and the tanker company says the missiles were "possibly" fired from Saudi soil.
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"No doubt, the Puntland pirates who recently hijacked the oil tanker are now holding the dhow," he told Reuters, referring to the hijacking last month of an oil tanker.
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Hijackers seized an oil tanker off the coast of Somalia.
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"This is akin to an oil tanker spill," Taylor said.
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It's like trying to navigate and turn an oil tanker.
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The report of Iranian oil tanker incident follows the Sept.
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He warned the outlook for the oil tanker market was worsening.
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The first one, an oil tanker, was heading straight for me.
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Go deeper: Iran says it will release seized British oil tanker
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For graphic on oil tanker demolitions by type, year click reut.
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For graphic on oil tanker fleet by type & year click reut.
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The British Heritage is a British oil tanker operated by British Petroleum.
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OIL TANKER ASSOCIATION INTERTANKO SAYS TWO TANKERS WERE ATTACKED EARLIER ON THURSDAY
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An Iranian oil tanker sank into the East China Sea Jan. 15.
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Go deeper: Pentagon releases additional photos alleging Iran behind oil tanker attacks
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Low oil tanker rates were also helping to defray some storage cost.
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An oil tanker burning near the Strait of Hormuz, June 13, 2019.
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On Friday, Iran seized a British-flagged oil tanker in the strait.
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Iran later seized a British-flagged oil tanker which it still holds.
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The administration has blamed Iran for two sets of oil tanker attacks.
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The drugs were carried in hidden compartments welded into oil tanker cars.
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Oil tanker 'three times bigger' Carl Schuster, a former director of operations at the US Pacific Command's Joint Intelligence Center, said the oil tanker would have been at least three times bigger than the USS John S. McCain.
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"If Britain does not release the Iranian oil tanker, it is the authorities duty to seize a British oil tanker," said Revolutionary Guards Major General Mohsen Rezai, who is also secretary of Iran's Expediency Council, a powerful state body.
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On March 13, pirates seized a small oil tanker in the same region.
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Iran on July 19 seized a British-flagged oil tanker, the Stena Impero.
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Iran's first, post-sanctions oil tanker set sail to Europe earlier this month.
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In July 2010, Japanese oil tanker M Star was attacked in the Strait.
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Oil tanker accidents are common in neighboring Nigeria, which is a major oil producer.
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Nearly 10 people died when an oil tanker exploded in Lagos city last June.
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An Iranian oil tanker collided with a cargo ship in the East China Sea.
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DOCKED IN THE port of Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital, floats a colossal oil tanker.
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Iran nearly attacked a British oil tanker that would have caused billions in damages.
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An underwater mine placed by the IRGC struck U.S.-flagged oil tanker MV Bridgeton.
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That comes after Iran seized a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz.
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One was an 23,250-ton oil tanker, the Lighthouse Winmore, supposedly heading to Taiwan.
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It, too, suffered a partial collapse, when hit by an oil tanker in 1964.
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IRAN'S NATIONAL OIL COMPANY SAYS TWO MISSILES TARGETED OIL TANKER SINOPA, CAUSED EXPLOSION -WEBSITE
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The USS John S. McCain later crashed into an oil tanker in the region.
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In the backdrop stood Maduro's barricade, lined with shipping containers and an orange oil tanker.
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Go deeper: U.S. releases video claimed to depict Iran removing mine from targeted oil tanker
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"Not likely," countered Maxim A. Andreyevsky, 31, the driver of a crude oil tanker truck.
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The expansion would boost oil tanker and barge traffic on Vancouver's waters nearly five-fold.
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Iranian authorities reported that the Iranian-owned oil tanker was struck off Saudi Arabias coast.
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Iran on Friday released a British-sailed oil tanker that it had held since July.
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IRAN'S STATE TV SAYS EXPLOSION HAS DAMAGED TWO TANKERS OF NIOC-OWNED SINOPA OIL TANKER
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There is no suggestion the oil tanker or shipping company was involved in the heist.
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Meanwhile, Iran lifted a detention order on a British-flagged oil tanker held since July.
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Then in July, Iran detained a British oil tanker, the Stena Impero, for two months.
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For graphic on oil tanker rates languish near record lows amid vessel oversupply click reut.
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For graphic on VLCC oil tanker 'Raphaela' beached for scrapping near Karachi, Pakistan click reut.
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The oil tanker, registered in Panama, collided with a bulk freighter registered in Hong Kong.
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Last month the U.S.-backed coalition said it had foiled attacks by explosives-laden speedboats deployed by the Houthis against commercial vessels, including an oil tanker, in the Red Sea, and in April a Saudi oil tanker was hit off of Hodeidah, suffering limited damage.
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Those with exposure to the crude oil tanker market include Frontline Ltd and Nordic American Tanker.
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During that time, traders will monitor oil-tanker traffic to ascertain whether fewer are leaving port.
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The USS John S. McCain, a destroyer, collided with a much heavier oil tanker near Singapore.
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"We are so saddened to hear of the terrible oil tanker accident in #Bahawalpur," it said.
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An oil tanker blast in 2016 in Gadani killed at least 26 workers and injured dozens.
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In the most recent incident, a Saudi oil tanker was attacked off Hodeidah on April 4.
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The oil tanker market also remains "fragile" while container shipping "is still very challenging", Sand said.
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And in 2017, a US Navy destroyer collided with an oil tanker, killing 10 Navy sailors.
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On Wednesday, three Iranian gunboats harassed a British oil tanker in the strait, the UK said.
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Gurvan Le Meur was steering an oil tanker toward a Russian port when something odd happened.
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Adding to the global uncertainty was the attack on an Iranian-owned oil tanker on Friday.
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STENA BULK CEO SAYS BRITISH-FLAGGED OIL TANKER STENA IMPERO REACHED INTERNATIONAL WATERS AT 0945 GMT
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In August 2017, 10 sailors were killed when the McCain collided with an oil tanker near Singapore.
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Recent oil tanker attacks in the Gulf, blamed by Trump on Iran, also will be in focus.
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The oil tanker was not seriously damaged in the incident and didn't leak any of its cargo.
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Iran's seizure of the Iraqi oil tanker had raised some concerns about potential Middle East supply disruptions.
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"We are aware of reports that Iranian forces seized a British oil tanker," spokesman Garrett Marquis said.
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Five cargo ships, including an oil tanker, arrived in Syria in the two weeks following Putin's announcement.
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Business Insider understands that the oil tanker was not carrying any cargo when the IRGC approached it.
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Earlier in August, more than 60 people were burnt in a oil tanker explosion in neighboring Tanzania.
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IRANIAN OIL TANKER ADRIAN DARYA REMOVES TURKISH DESTINATION, NO LONGER HAS DESTINATION SPECIFIED - REFINITIV SHIP TRACKING DATA
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Meanwhile, an attack on an Iranian-owned oil tanker on Friday added to the global geopolitical uncertainty .
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They found the bridge to Venezuela blocked with an orange oil tanker and two large blue containers.
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The leadership change comes amid growing tensions with Iran, which seized a British oil tanker last week.
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BI: As a big oil tanker, can you keep up with the speed of the start-ups?
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Read more: The British oil tanker that Iran confronted with 3 gunboats was a BP ship that worried it was about to be targetedThe targeting of the British oil tanker follows the seizure of an Iranian cargo ship allegedly operating in violation of sanctions in the Strait of Gibraltar.
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Read more: The British oil tanker that Iran confronted with 3 gunboats was a BP ship that worried it was about to be targetedThe harassment came after the British Royal Marines helped seize an Iranian oil tanker off the coast of Gibraltar, a British territory, on July Fourth.
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Maritime industry reports indicated that the vessel, an oil tanker, was seized off Nigeria's southeastern Atlantic Ocean coast.
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They intervened on Friday to repel pirates who attacked an Iranian oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden.
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Last month, unknown assailants attacked an oil tanker and fired rocket-propelled grenades before breaking off their assault.
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That came two weeks after Britain seized the Iranian oil tanker, accusing it of violating sanctions on Syria.
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At the end of July, an oil tanker in the Mediterranean reportedly brought rescued migrants back to Libya.
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The only shipping company I am recommending is Nordic American Tanker because that is an oil tanker ship.
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And dealing with sulphur has other ill-effects, points out Paddy Rodgers of Euronav, an oil-tanker firm.
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Trump and Abe discussed the oil tanker attacks in a phone call on Friday, the White House said.
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Meanwhile, oil prices spiked on Thursday after two oil tanker ships off the coast of Iran were attacked.
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The crash in question involved the U.S.S. John S. McCain and an oil tanker in August of 2017.
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The explosions occurred when more than 200 employees were working on an unused oil tanker, Chutta told CNN.
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IRANIAN REVOLUTIONARY GUARDS COMMANDER REZAIE CALLS ON BRITAIN TO IMMEDIATELY RELEASE IRANIAN OIL TANKER SEIZED IN GIBRALTAR - TWEET
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The report said the oil tanker was intercepted south of Iran's Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz.
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The U.S. suspects Iran has seized a small oil tanker from the United Arab Emirates, AP reported Tuesday.
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Meanwhile Libya exported the first oil tanker from the port of Zuetina since 2015, adding to global supplies.
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The latest development follows the British seizure of an Iranian oil tanker accused of violating sanctions on Syria.
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Merchant marine websites describe the Alnic MC as a 600-foot-long oil tanker flying a Liberian flag.
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British forces captured an Iranian oil tanker in early July near Gibraltar, accused of violating sanctions on Syria.
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Iran further provoked tensions last week when it seized a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz.
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"Imagine a biomass the size of the world's largest oil tanker cruising along the coast," Dr. Piraino said.
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SAUDI MINISTER SAYS SAUDI ARABIA NOT BEHIND FRIDAY'S SUSPECTED STRIKE ON IRANIAN-OWNED OIL TANKER IN RED SEA
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That was a plane crashing into an oil tanker, causing a tsunami, triggering a nuclear explosion-level bad.
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Timothy Eckels' son was killed when the USS John S. McCain collided with an oil tanker on Aug.
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On August 26, Hook directly emailed an Indian ship captain piloting an Iranian oil tanker in international waters.
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Early Monday, the McCain collided with a Liberian-flagged oil tanker east of the Malacca and Singapore straits.
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Another guided-missile destroyer, the USS John S. McCain, was hit by an oil tanker on Aug. 20.
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The oil spilled into the swollen Little Rock River in Lyon County when 32 oil tanker cars derailed Friday.
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Carter drew attention to a counter-ISIS strike on Thursday that involved the destruction of 168 oil tanker trucks.
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Oil tanker owners DHT Holdings and Heidmar suspended new bookings to the Mid-East Gulf, three ship brokers said.
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The USS John S. McCain and an oil tanker collided near Singapore in August, leaving 10 U.S. sailors dead.
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IRAN CLERIC JAZAYERI SAYS BRITAIN SHOULD BE "SCARED" OF TEHRAN'S REACTION TO ILLEGAL SEIZURE OF ITS OIL TANKER - FARS
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IRAN DISMISSES "FABRICATED" REPORTS OF THE SEIZURE OF A BRITISH OIL TANKER IN THE GULF - IRIB WEBSITE QUOTING SOURCES
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Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard forces seized a foreign oil tanker accused of smuggling oil, Iran's state TV reported Thursday.
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Iran's seizure of an Iraqi oil tanker raised some concerns about potential Middle East supply disruptions in the Gulf.
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Meanwhile, Iran says it seized an oil tanker that was carrying smuggled fuel and had 2000 people on board.
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In a separate standoff, Iran's foreign minister accused Britain of "piracy" for seizing an Iranian oil tanker last week.
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The oil tanker British Heritage is operated by BP under an Isle of Man flag, according to shipping data.
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Nigerian sailors rescued the hijacked oil tanker in a dramatic night-time rescue in which they killed one pirate.
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This came not long after oil tanker attacks in the Persian Gulf, which the Trump administration blamed on Iran.
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The collision was with an oil tanker three times the size of the McCain, according to The Washington Post.
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The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps declared Friday it had seized a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz.
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One oil tanker attacked in this strategic narrow waterway on their southern shore could spike consumer gas prices globally.
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His nifty, jerry-rigged solutions turn this third of the film into Apollo 13 on a sinking oil tanker.
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GIBRALTARS CHIEF MINISTER FABIAN PICARDO WONT APPLY TO RENEW ORDER TO DETAIN IRANIAN OIL TANKER GRACE 1 - THE SUN
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Oil tanker companies, worried about the safety of their crews, say they are concerned about operating in the area.
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In August, 10 sailors were killed when the destroyer John S. McCain collided with an oil tanker near Singapore.
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Iran says it seized a foreign oil tanker last week it claimed was smuggling fuel to the Arab states.
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Iran has granted consular access to 18 Indian crew members of the seized British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero.
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"You can only prepare so much," Mr. O'Keeffe mused one evening as an oil tanker slipped under the bridge.
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A U.S. official offered several million dollars to the captain of an Iranian oil tanker reportedly heading to Syria.
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Iran Iran tried to seize a British oil tanker in the Persian Gulf, raising already heightened tensions in the region.
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AFTER MORE than a week of warnings, Iran has made good on its threat to seize a British oil tanker.
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In the same area, a U.S. guided missile destroyer collided with an oil tanker in 2017, resulting in 10 deaths.
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Iran's seizure of the Iraqi oil tanker had raised some concerns about potential Middle East supply disruptions in the Gulf.
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That came two weeks after Britain seized an Iranian oil tanker near Gibraltar, accusing it of violating sanctions on Syria.
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In addition to Brexit, Johnson faces an immediate crisis with with Iran, which seized a British oil tanker on Friday.
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Britain's seizure of the Iranian oil tanker was illegal and would be detrimental for Britain.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - An Iranian oil tanker has sunk after burning for more than a week following a collision on Jan.
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IRAN CLERIC SEDIGHI SAYS BRITAIN WILL BE "SLAPPED IN THE FACE" SOON FOR "DARING" TO CAPTURE IRANIAN OIL TANKER - TV
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An Emirati official had told the AP the small oil tanker made no distress call before switching off its tracker.
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U.S. DEFENSE OFFICIAL SAYS FIVE BOATS BELIEVED TO BE IRANIAN APPROACHED BRITISH OIL TANKER ON WEDNESDAY IN STRAIT OF HORMUZ
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But now the Trump administration has some unlikely allies when it comes to fingering Iran for the oil-tanker attacks.
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Tensions between Iran and Britain also escalated after Iran's Revolutionary Guards seized a British-flagged oil tanker on July 19.
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That came two weeks after British forces captured an Iranian oil tanker near Gibraltar, accused of violating sanctions on Syria.
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Oil prices held near their Friday levels after jumping sharply on reports of an attack on an Iranian oil tanker.
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On the commodities front, oil rose 1% after Iran said it had seized a foreign oil tanker in the Gulf.
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Britain's seizure of the Iranian oil tanker was illegal and would be detrimental for Britain.
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That was two weeks after British forces captured an Iranian oil tanker near Gibraltar accused of violating sanctions on Syria.
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Another oil tanker, the Panama-flagged MT Riah, was captured by the elite force last month for allegedly smuggling fuel.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Tuesday that investigations into the Iranian oil tanker Grace 1 were a matter for Gibraltar.
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Trump this week called the oil tanker attacks "minor," but said he would "certainly" go to war over nuclear weapons.
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Iran has threatened to retaliate for the British seizure of an Iranian oil tanker accused of violating sanctions on Syria.
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The Financial Times reported that Hook sent an email to the ship captain, before imposing sanctions on the oil tanker.
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On the other side, barricades made from shipping containers and a bright orange oil tanker block the road into Venezuela.
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He said the boat's crew had ignored warnings from a warship accompanying a Saudi oil tanker through the Red Sea.
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Two months later, another destroyer, the John S. McCain, collided with an oil tanker near Singapore, leaving 10 sailors dead.
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The crew of the oil tanker, named by police as Dubai Harmony, is still onboard and assisting the fire service.
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Most recently, we saw tiny Gibraltar ignore a U.S. demand to hold an Iranian oil tanker, releasing it from port.
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The McCain, a guided-missile destroyer, collided with an oil tanker in the Strait of Malacca before dawn on Monday.
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Commandos fast-roped down onto the deck of a ship, resembling Iran's July seizure of a British-flagged oil tanker.
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Although it never happened, the cartel also discussed trying to move 100 tons of cocaine on an oil tanker ship.
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Separately, the Iranian oil tanker that burned off the coast of China for more than a week sank on Sunday.
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AN OIL TANKER entered the Persian Gulf in early February, supposedly heading to the Basra terminal, off the coast of Iraq.
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SAUDI-LED COALITION SPOKESMAN SAYS THINKS CAN CONNECT THURSDAY ATTACK TO LAST YEAR'S HOUTHI STRIKE ON OIL TANKER IN RED SEA
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That came two weeks after British forces captured an Iranian oil tanker near Gibraltar suspected of violating EU sanctions on Syria.
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UK'S HUNT SAYS IRAN'S ZARIF TOLD HIM THAT IRAN WANTS TO RESOLVE OIL TANKER ISSUE AND NOT SEEKING TO ESCALATE SITUATION
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"Because they can't transform the oil tanker, they have a speedboat to go faster and engage with the competition," explains Boden.
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Iran The UK is thinking about how to respond after Iran captured a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz.
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U.S. officials said on Wednesday they were unsure whether an oil tanker towed into Iranian waters had been seized or rescued.
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Iran has vowed to respond to what it calls Britain's "piracy" over the seizure of an Iranian oil tanker in Gibraltar.
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The guided-missile destroyer collided with an oil tanker named the Alnic MC a week ago east of the Malacca Strait.
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Samuel's great coup was to commission the first modern oil tanker, which enabled him to ship hydrocarbons through the Suez Canal.
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They were part of a military security team protecting an Italian oil tanker and say they mistook the fishermen for pirates.
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"It is obvious that there is a major turf war going on in the crude market," said an oil tanker broker.
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Ten U.S. sailors are missing after the USS John S. McCain collided with an oil tanker in the Strait of Malacca.
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The US hit Iran with a secret cyberattack to disrupt oil tanker attacks the same day Trump almost authorized military strikes
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Refinitiv shipping data showed the Masal, an Iranian-flagged oil tanker, anchored in the Suez Canal's waiting zone on July 6.
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Sure, Iran has been irritated by the seizure of its own oil tanker, the Grace I, by Gibraltarian and British authorities.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday Britain would face "consequences" over the seizure of an Iranian oil tanker.
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Just after midnight, 28 years ago today, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez collided with a reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska.
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On July 4, Britain seized an Iranian oil tanker, which it says was bound for Syria, in the waters off Gibraltar.
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Just two months later, 10 sailors were killed in a collision between another Navy destroyer and an oil tanker near Singapore.
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In August, as the destroyer John S. McCain entered the crowded waterway, it collided with an oil tanker, killing 10 sailors.
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In June, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo specifically cited the maximum pressure campaign as the catalyst for the oil tanker attacks.
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By chance, Jupiter was also the name of an oil tanker and a shipping company under United States' sanctions against Iran.
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"The accident caused oil tanker 'SANCHI' to catch on fire, tilting to the right, losing contact with the crew," it said.
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Claimants in that case were significantly helped by U.S. pollution laws drawn up after the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil tanker spill.
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"The Saudi oil tanker was subjected to slight damage due to the attack by the Houthi militia," Saudi state media said.
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An Iranian oil tanker that was wanted by the U.S. docked somewhere along the Mediterranean coast, an Iranian official reportedly said.
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A 1987 collision between the Doña Paz ferry and an oil tanker is believed to have killed more than 4,300 people.
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If Tehran destroyed an oil tanker, killing people and causing an oil spill, the US might destroy some of Iran's ships.
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This week, protesters took to the water in kayaks in an attempt to block an oil tanker from reaching the terminal.
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The spill came after a collision in the channel Friday between a 755-foot oil tanker and a tug pushing two barges.
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The warning came after the Chinese-owned oil tanker was spotted picking up a shipment of oil from Iran in early May.
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"One minute I had a tiny little inflatable and you're in control and the next minute you are on an oil tanker".
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Police have so far charged 14 men, arrested 20 and seized at least one oil tanker and millions of dollars in cash.
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If you make a commitment, and if that doesn't work or you start to realize… Barlog: It's like turning an oil tanker.
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Sovcomflot added that the ship is the world's first Aframax crude oil tanker designed to operate on LNG as its primary fuel.
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American Eagle's sister ship, American Victory, is expected to arrive in three days to relieve the oil tanker, the Coast Guard said.
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Brent crude prices eased as worries faded over escalating tensions in the Middle East following Iran's seizure of a British oil tanker.
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Iran's announcement came hours before the United Kingdom is expected to unveil its response to Iran's seizure of a British oil tanker.
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Reuters reported that the Equinor Sture oil shipment terminal, from where the oil tanker left, has been closed as a precautionary measure.
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Frontline has a fleet of 21 VLCCs, 17 Suezmaxes, 14 long-range product tankers, three Aframaxes and one medium-range oil tanker.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency posted a video of the detained British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero on Saturday.
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That came two weeks after British forces captured an Iranian oil tanker near Gibraltar suspected of violating European Union sanctions on Syria.
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But the HMS Montrose, a UK Royal Navy frigate, was escorting the oil tanker and pointed its weapons on the IRGC vessels.
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We are in the crowded boat with the refugees during their weeklong voyage, which ends when an Italian oil tanker rescues them.
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An oil tanker carrying 900,000 liters of diesel has been hijacked and taken into Indonesian waters, Malaysian maritime authorities said on Tuesday.
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The United Kingdom on Saturday tied the release of an Iranian oil tanker to a guarantee it would not go to Syria.
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An Iranian port official said on Tuesday that the UK might free the Iranian oil tanker seized off Gibraltar last month soon.
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Iran reportedly called its seizure of a British oil tanker a "reciprocal action" after British assistance in the impounding an Iranian supertanker.
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According to a video of the collapse on Twitter, the oil tanker had crossed to the other side when the bridge collapsed.
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British marines reportedly seized an Iranian oil tanker Thursday for attempting to transport oil to Syria in violation of European Union sanctions.
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This is like Exxon letting the guy who crashed an oil tanker into an iceberg chart courses for all future tanker voyages.
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Britain urged Iran to "de-escalate the situation in the region" after the British Heritage oil tanker operated by BP was approached.
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The U.S. State Department has offered millions of dollars to the captain of an Iranian oil tanker suspected of heading to Syria.
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In January, an overturned oil tanker exploded in Odukpani in Cross River State while dozens of people were scooping up leaking fuel.
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Developing Explosions rocked an Iranian oil tanker in the Red Sea in what the state news media reported was a missile attack.
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Ten sailors are missing and five were injured today after the U.S. destroyer John S. McCain hit an oil tanker near Singapore.
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Iran shoots down an U.S. drone in June it says was in Iranian airspace, and seizes a British oil tanker in July.
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Two missiles struck an Iranian-owned oil tanker off the Saudi port of Jeddah, causing heavy damage and a crude oil leak.
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Ships in the area were initially alerted through a separate advisory, seen by Reuters, which said an oil tanker was on fire.
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Lending some support to prices, Iran's seizure of an Iraqi oil tanker raised concerns about potential Middle East supply disruptions in the Gulf.
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FOR the third time in as many months, the crew of an oil tanker found themselves at the centre of an international incident.
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Elsewhere in commodity markets, oil prices are sharply higher after an Iranian oil tanker was hit by two missiles in the Middle East.
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The transit was carried out by the destroyer Preble and the Navy oil tanker Walter S. Diehl, a U.S. military spokesman told Reuters.
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On March 24, 1989, an oil tanker, the Exxon Valdez struck an Alaskan reef, resulting in the largest American oil spill to date.
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It's very nice to get feedback, but the truth of the matter is that there's really no way to turn the oil tanker.
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A picture of the coastal oil tanker posted on a police Facebook page showed it listing with black smoke pouring from the hull.
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"PIRACY" Khamenei also said Iran would respond to Britain's "piracy" over the seizure in early July of an Iranian oil tanker in Gibraltar.
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Brent crude oil prices rose after Iran seized a UK oil tanker in the Gulf at the weekend, raising tensions in the region.
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"After we came to know that the Somali traders hired the oil tanker, we released it without a ransom," one pirate told Reuters.
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A Norwegian warship was heavily damaged in a collision with a Maltese oil tanker in the North Sea off the coast of Norway.
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U.S. officials say they are unsure whether the oil tanker was seized by Iran or rescued after facing mechanical faults as Tehran asserts.
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The UK will hold an emergency meeting on Monday to discuss how to handle Tehran's seizure of a British oil tanker last week.
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A UK Royal Navy frigate was escorting the oil tanker and pointed its weapons on the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps vessels, CNN reported.
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A second ship, the British-owned oil tanker Mesdar, was bound for Saudi Arabia Friday when it sharply veered course north toward Iran.
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Iran's military seized a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz Friday, the second vessel it has apprehended in as many days.
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In August, the USS John S. McCain collided with an oil tanker east of the Straits of Malacca and Singapore, killing 10 sailors.
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A British oil tanker ignored the UK government's warnings and boldly crossed the Strait of Hormuz amid the country's spiraling tensions with Iran.
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How are you going to convince a room full of alphas that an oil tanker should shift its course with just one seat?
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In a separate incident in August, 10 sailors were killed when the guided missile destroyer John S. McCain collided with an oil tanker.
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It is the conduit for about 2011 percent of the world's oil tanker traffic, and has been the recurrent backdrop of military bluster.
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On August 21st, 2017, the USS John S. McCain collided with the Alnic MC, a Liberian oil tanker, off the coast of Singapore.
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On his second war patrol to America, between March and May 1942, his toll including the American oil tanker Gulfamerica off Jacksonville, Fla.
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We're covering today's Nobel Peace Prize announcement, a reported attack on an Iranian oil tanker, and a W.N.B.A. title for the Washington Mystics.
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We have new details about the 10 sailors presumed to have died when a U.S. destroyer collided with an oil tanker on Monday.
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You had the British oil tanker situation, the shoot-down of one of our drones and then the U.S. Embassy demonstration last week.
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All crew members of the Iranian oil tanker are safe and the situation of the tanker is stable, Iran's Nour news agency said.
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Most of the gains were posted on Friday after an Iranian oil tanker was attacked off Saudi Arabia's coast in the Red Sea.
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Early Monday, the McCain, a guided missile destroyer, collided with a Liberian-flagged oil tanker east of the Straits of Malacca and Singapore.
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The pause was ordered after a U.S. guided missile destroyer collided with an oil tanker in waters near Singapore and Malaysia on Monday.
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According to a marine traffic site, the oil tanker and the USS John S. McCain were traveling in the same direction, toward Singapore.
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The U.S. released a video that appears to show Iran's Revolutionary Guard attacking an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday.
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The first vessel to be sunk by a missile near the coast of Iran was one that sailed ahead of Miniño's oil tanker.
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On Thursday, the Pentagon launched a long-planned cyber attack in retaliation for the oil tanker incidents, Yahoo News reported, citing former intelligence officials.
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BEIJING, Jan 14 (Reuters) - A burning Iranian oil tanker that had drifted into Japan's exclusive economic zone has sunk after a collision on Jan.
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Fears of a confrontation between Iran and the United States have mounted since last Thursday's oil tanker attacks, which Washington has blamed on Tehran.
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His government has promised a moratorium on oil tanker traffic along the coast of northern British Columbia, a policy seen making the pipeline unfeasible.
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Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday Tehran would respond to Britain's "piracy" over the seizure of its oil tanker in Gibraltar.
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A crude oil tanker reached the Deer Park refinery on Wednesday, staving off a temporary shutdown because of a dwindling on-site crude supply.
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In 2012, India arrested two Italian marines who were escorting an oil tanker on suspicion of shooting dead two fishermen they mistook for pirates.
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According to the website Marine Traffic, the 62,000-ton oil tanker Sola is continuing its route from Norway to a terminal in northeast England.
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Saudi Arabia confirmed that the oil tanker, which was not identified by name, was attacked by the "Iran-backed Houthis" in the early afternoon.
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GENEVA, July 20 (Reuters) - Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency posted a video of the detained British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero on Saturday.
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Tokyo last month also claimed a North Korean oil tanker was taking on cargo in the East China Sea, possibly violating sanctions as well.
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Previously, the UK's Montrose got into a standoff with Iranian gunboats trying to veer an oil tanker called the "British Heritage" into Iran's waters.
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The oil tanker driver, who survived, has been detained to assist in an investigation, but early reports do not indicate human error, Khan said.
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The Indonesian Navy thwarted the hijacking of an oil tanker by pirates off the southwest coast of Borneo in May, and arrested nine suspects.
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Iran's Revolutionary Guard seized the British-flagged Stena Impero oil tanker on July 15 in an apparent retaliation to the Grace 1's capture.
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Gibraltar is releasing an Iranian oil tanker it detained in July despite a last-minute effort by the United States to block the release.
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The spokesman also lashed out at Britain, saying it was playing a "dangerous game" by seizing an Iranian oil tanker in Gibraltar last week.
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"Capture of the Iranian oil tanker based on fabricated excuses ... will not be unanswered and when necessary Tehran will give appropriate answer," Bagheri said.
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Of course, sometimes changing practice in a university is like turning round an oil tanker in a phone box, but we're in that process.
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In early May, Saudi Arabia's coast guard towed an Iranian oil tanker with engine trouble off the coast of Jeddah in the Red Sea.
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The ship was originally a San Clemente-class super oil tanker before it was converted to what is now the USNS Comfort in 1987.
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In a separate standoff, Iran's foreign minister accused Britain on Monday of "piracy, pure and simple" for seizing an Iranian oil tanker last week.
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The drug lord's money was intended for the purchase of an oil tanker to be used in a contract with the state oil company.
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Tensions have been escalating between the US and Iran in recent weeks amid multiple oil tanker attacks, which the US has pinned on Iran.
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Years later, Mr. Chávez stripped the Pilín León oil tanker of its name after its crew participated in a strike organized by the opposition.
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Last month, the USS John S. McCain guided-missile destroyer collided with an oil tanker near Singapore, resulting in the death of 10 sailors.
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Gold investors were also watching for fallout from an attack on an Iranian-owned oil tanker on Friday that added to global geopolitical uncertainty.
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Within hours, Iran announced that its forces had seized a British-flagged oil tanker, the Stena Impero, as it transited the Strait of Hormuz.
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Within hours, Iran announced that its forces had seized a British-flagged oil tanker, the Stena Impero, as it transited the Strait of Hormuz.
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Gold investors were also watching for fallout from an attack on an Iranian-owned oil tanker on Friday that added to global geopolitical uncertainty.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Two missiles struck the Iran-owned Sinopa oil tanker setting it ablaze off the Saudi port of Jeddah, Iranian state TV reported.
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Its attempt to send an oil tanker to Syria in July was briefly stopped by U.K. Royal Marines who boarded the vessel in Gibraltar.
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The Comfort, a vessel transformed from a hulking oil tanker into a 1,813-bed hospital ship, is one of the military's two floating lifesavers.
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The government said that all 21 crew members of the bulk freighter had been rescued, while the 32 missing were from the oil tanker.
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They just slide up to an oil tanker they already know everything about, quietly board, put guns to everyone's heads and siphon the cargo.
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AN OIL tanker that ferries nearly 110,000 tonnes of the black stuff between the Middle East and Europe does not sound like a green ship.
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The NEB also made new recommendations to mitigate harm to Pacific Ocean killer whales, which environmentalists warn will face disruption from increased oil tanker traffic.
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To be clear: Would a military response be "on the table" if Iran attacked a US oil tanker, or would you definitively response with force?
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Iran has called for the release of that ship, and earlier Friday, a British court in Gibraltar extended the detention of the Iranian oil tanker.
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Iran releases video of masked commandos rappelling onto seized British oil tanker Right-wing extremism is a growing worry in Germany after series of attacks
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Meanwhile, the price of oil, one of Canada's major exports, fell even as Iran said it had seized a foreign oil tanker in the Gulf.
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UK'S HUNT SAYS WILL FACILITATE RELEASE OF GRACE 1 OIL TANKER IF RECEIVES GUARANTEES IT WILL NOT TO SYRIA, AFTER DUE PROCESS IN GIBRALTAR COURTS
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Michelin starred-chef Alexandre Couillon serves a dish inspired by the ERIKA oil tanker spill off the coast of France at his restaurant, La Marine.
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The U.K. said last week 3 Iranian boats tried to seize a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz before a British warship intervened.
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Pirates hijacked an oil tanker off the coast of Somalia on Monday, the first successful hijacking of a commercial ship by Somali pirates since 2012.
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The move comes as Iran granted consular access to 18 Indian crew members of a separate vessel, the seized British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero.
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With tensions in the Middle East escalating after the Iranian military seized a British oil tanker late last week, oil prices climbed on supply concerns.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they have captured British oil tanker Stena Impero in the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian state television reported on Friday.
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In his comments, Khamenei also said Iran would respond to Britain's "piracy" over the seizure in early July of an Iranian oil tanker in Gibraltar.
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"Some The IRGC's naval forces have seized a foreign oil tanker in the Persian Gulf that was smuggling fuel for some Arab countries," TV reported.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's foreign minister accused the United States on Thursday of attempted piracy in trying to prevent Gibraltar's release of an Iranian oil tanker.
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Early Monday, the guided missile destroyer USS John S. McCain collided with a Liberian-flagged oil tanker east of the Straits of Malacca and Singapore.
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It is like saying that a seabird cannot show up on a beach covered in petroleum since a seabird is obviously not an oil tanker.
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On top of oil tanker attacks and seizures, Iran shot down a US drone in June, which nearly led to retaliatory military strikes from Trump.
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Iran's Revolutionary Guard earlier this month attempted to seize a British oil tanker in the Persian Gulf, alleging that the tanker was nearing its waters.
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Iranian state television reported Sunday that the country could release a seized British oil tanker in the near future following legal proceedings against the vessel.
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Trump pointed to a video the military released Thursday night that it says shows Iran's Revolutionary Guard removing a mine from a targeted oil tanker.
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Dry bulk operator Golden Ocean and oil tanker firm Frontline are both controlled by Hemen Holding, the investment vehicle of Norwegian-born billionaire John Fredriksen.
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The Houthis have also fired missiles and armed drones against populated areas, an oil tanker, and energy-related infrastructure along the Saudi border with Yemen.
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The driver of the oil tanker and a co-passenger died immediately after the truck burst into flames during the early morning hours on Sunday.
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A week earlier, British forces seized an Iranian oil tanker near the Mediterranean peninsula of Gibraltar carrying oil, in defiance of European sanctions, to Syria.
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Meanwhile, Houthis in Yemen continued to step up a campaign to lob missiles at Saudi targets, including an oil tanker in international waters last week.
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In 2012, India arrested Latorre and Salvatore Girone who were escorting an oil tanker on suspicion of shooting dead two fishermen they mistook for pirates.
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"Changing national policy is like turning an oil tanker around, but we were impatient, knowing every year people are dying," says Measham over the phone.
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For more on the company, click on The oil tanker shipping firm raised $100 million in a share issue to enable growth through vessels acquisitions.
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The incident marks the second hijacking off the Somali coast in two weeks; after commandeering an oil tanker in March, pirates released it without ransom.
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An unmoored oil tanker also crashed into the only bridge from the airport to the mainland, leaving about 3,000 people stranded and forcing their evacuation.
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The other ship that was attacked was an oil tanker chartered by Taiwan's state oil refiner, CPC Corp, to carry fuel from the Middle East.
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In August 2017, the USS John S. McCain collided with an oil tanker off the coast of Singapore, killing 10 sailors and injuring dozens more.
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Two federal judges strike down North Carolina's districts as unconstitutional; an oil tanker in the East China Sea is on fire after a serious collision.
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At least one person has been found dead after an Iranian oil tanker collided with a Chinese freighter in the East China Sea on Saturday.
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It will be our fault because we didn't flex our political or consumer muscle to collectively lift the oil tanker poised to crush our children.
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Something free or cheap Stop by Red Hook for TankerTime, when the moored oil tanker Mary A. Whalen welcomes guests to its deck for free.
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The service members and their families are grappling with the aftermath of the deadly collision between the destroyer John S. McCain and an oil tanker.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somali pirates who seized an oil tanker earlier this week have released the ship and its crew without conditions, officials said late Thursday.
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The rare overseas mission follows an attack on a Japanese oil tanker and increased American pressure to play a more active role in the region.
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A good portion of last week's gains came on Friday after an Iranian oil tanker was attacked off Saudi Arabia's coast in the Red Sea.
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Iranian state TV reported that the oil tanker Sinopa, owned by the National Iranian Oil Co, was struck offshore the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah.
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New Delhi (CNN)Pirates have released 22 Indian nationals taken captive after their oil tanker was boarded off the coast of West Africa last week.
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Iranian ship seizures, as well as oil tanker explosions that the U.S. blames on Iran, saw America create a new coalition to protect Mideast waters.
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Iran's government announced Monday that it would release the British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero, which it seized in July, reports the New York Times.
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Packed with 1,173 tons of diesel fuel and 110,000 tons (810,000 barrels) of ultra-light crude condensate, it's considered the worst oil tanker disaster in decades.
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The USS John S. McCain collided with the Alnic MC, a 600-foot oil tanker with a gross tonnage of 30,000, according to the US Navy.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Foreign Office confirmed on Thursday that its ambassador to Tehran had been summoned over the seizure of an Iranian oil tanker in Gibraltar.
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After urgent prompting by the U.S, Greece confirmed it won't help an Iranian oil tanker headed east in the Mediterranean Sea to deliver oil to Syria.
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Every action — from parking at your local mall to an oil tanker chugging across the ocean — is recorded and harvested for economic trends and consumer anomalies.
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Separately, Iran said on Wednesday that an Iranian oil tanker has broken down in the Red Sea but the crew are safe and repairs are underway.
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Dry bulk operator Golden Ocean and crude oil tanker firm Frontline are both controlled by Hemen Holding, the investment vehicle of Norwegian-born billionaire John Fredriksen.
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The British government said a navy frigate had to warn away the paramilitary vessels from disrupting the passage of a British oil tanker through the strait.
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However, one of the sources estimated Iran would need $8-12 billion to modernize its fleet of container, cargo and oil tanker ships by around 2022.
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Cover: In this July 2, 2012 file photo, an Iranian Revolutionary Guard speedboat moves in the Persian Gulf while an oil tanker is seen in background.
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The Fong Seong 888, a Tuvalu-flagged oil tanker, arrived a short time later and recovered the 33 other crew members, according to the Coast Guard.
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Tensions between Britain and Iran over the seizure by Iran of an oil tanker are also set to sustain demand for safe-haven core European debt.
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The Sri Lankan Ministry of Foreign Affairs published a statement confirming the eight member crew of the 1,800 deadweight tonne oil tanker are from Sri Lanka.
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Clean-up can take decades in remote waters, as was the case when the Exxon Valdez crude oil tanker slammed into an Alaskan reef in 1989.
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The first of the two, an Emirati oil tanker named Aris-13, was taken last week and abandoned four days later without the pirates collecting ransom.
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The first of the two, an Emirati oil tanker named Aris-23, was taken last week and abandoned four days later without the pirates collecting ransom.
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He also labeled as "piracy" the seizure by Britain in July of an Iranian oil tanker near Gibraltar that London accused of violating sanctions on Syria.
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Emma Li, an analyst with Refinitiv, which tracks oil tanker movements into China, said Haiyou received 730,000 barrels of Russian crude ESPO blend in late February.
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Oil tanker attacks Two Saudi Arabian oil tankers were damaged off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, and the Saudis claim the attacks were sabotage.
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Earlier, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei said Iran would respond to Britain's "piracy" over the seizure in early July of an Iranian oil tanker in Gibraltar.
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"Iran appreciates efforts by the authorities of Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, and Oman to secure the safe return of Iran's Happiness 1 oil tanker," Abbas Mousavi said.
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After the USS John S. McCain collided with an oil tanker east of Singapore early Monday, leaving 10 sailors missing, the chief of Naval Operations, Adm.
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Tehran for weeks has vowed to retaliate for the seizure of its Grace 1 oil tanker by British forces for violating European Union sanctions on Syria.
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LONDON, July 19 (Reuters) - Gibraltar's supreme court has granted a 30-day extension to allow authorities to detain the Iranian oil tanker Grace 1 until Aug.
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US Navy Ten US Navy sailors are missing after a US Navy guided-missile destroyer collided with an oil tanker east of Singapore early this morning.
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"The oil tanker that was captured on Wednesday for smuggling Iran's fuel to other countries was an Iraqi ship," IRNA said, quoting Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps.
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Iran has denied impeding the British oil tanker, the BP vessel British Heritage, saying that if it really wanted to seize this ship, it would have.
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Al-Darbi in 85033 pleaded guilty before a military commission to charges related to helping plot a 2002 al Qaeda attack on a French oil tanker.
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Now it has emerged that Bermuda-based oil tanker company DHT holdings and US tanker operator Heidmar have suspended new bookings to the Middle East gulf.
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Shipping data on Thomson Reuters Eikon shows there has been a recent steady flow of oil tanker traffic from Vladivostok into North Korean east coast ports.
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IRANIAN OIL TANKER GRACE 1 HELD BY ROYAL MARINES IN GIBRALTAR TO BE RELEASED ON THURSDAY-THE SUN CITING SOURCES CLOSE TO GIBRALTAR CHIEF MINISTER PICARDO
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They continue to lob unguided missiles at Saudi Arabia's airports and cities and release unguided sea mines into oil tanker sea-lanes in the Red Sea.
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The IRGC said it seized an oil tanker carrying smuggled diesel in the Persian Gulf on Monday, making it the third tanker seized in recent months.
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Upon being informed of the Stena Impero's journey, HMS Montrose sped up to escort the oil tanker, but by then it was too late, Mordaunt said.
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Last week, a British warship thwarted an attempt by Iranian vessels to block the passage of a U.K.-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz.
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Al-Darbi in 22019 pleaded guilty before a military commission to charges related to helping plot a 2002 al Qaeda attack on a French oil tanker.
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The Guards seized an Iraqi oil tanker in the Gulf on Wednesday which they said was smuggling fuel and detained seven crewmen, Iran's state media reported.
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An oil tanker with eight Sri Lankan crew on board was hijacked last month but released within a few days after a clash with security forces.
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Cover image: The burning Iranian oil tanker Sanchi is seen partially sunk in the East China Sea off the eastern coast of China on Sunday, Jan.
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Iran has demanded the immediate release of the oil tanker, while an Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander threatened on Friday to seize a British ship in retaliation.
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Hong Kong (CNN)At least one person is dead and two missing after an oil tanker caught fire south of one of Hong Kong's main islands.
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Turkish authorities also closed the Dardanelles strait to tankers longer than 200 meters after an oil tanker ran aground, but also reopened the strait at noon.
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To make things worse, an oil tanker unmoored by the powerful typhoon's 130 mile-per-hour winds struck and damaged the only bridge to the mainland.
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OSLO, June 14 (Reuters) - The fire on Frontline's oil tanker Front Altair in the Gulf of Oman was extinguished overnight, the Norwegian company said on Friday.
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OSLO (Reuters) - The fire onboard an oil tanker at Norway's Sture crude export terminal has been put out, the local fire service told Reuters on Friday.
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Ten Navy sailors were missing and five were injured on Monday after a United States destroyer collided with an oil tanker off the coast of Singapore.
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An Iranian oil tanker was reportedly struck by two missiles in a terrorist attack just off the coast of Saudi Arabia, Tehran claimed on Friday morning.
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DUBAI, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Two missiles struck the Iran-owned Sinopa oil tanker setting it ablaze off the Saudi port of Jeddah, Iranian state TV reported.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China, asked about Friday's Iran oil tanker explosions, says it hoped the relevant parties would work together to uphold peace and stability in region.
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New images show an orange oil tanker and two large blue containers positioned midway across the three-lane Tienditas Bridge, which connects Cucuta, Colombia, with Venezuela.
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Several safety violations were recorded for the oil tanker at its last port inspection in July, one fire safety deficiency and two safety-of-navigation problems.
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The results: Iran's harassment of US forces, seizure of a British oil tanker in the Persian Gulf, accelerated enrichment of uranium, and heightened hostilities against Israel.
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Beijing (CNN)An oil tanker burning in the East China Sea has sunk a week after it collided with another vessel, according to Chinese state media.
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The drone strikes followed attacks on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz in July, including the capture of the UK-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero by Iran.
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A majority of them were kidnappings, however, rather than the oil tanker hijackings for cargo theft that accounted for the majority of piracy assaults in previous years.
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The U.S. military later released a video that it said showed Iran's Revolutionary Guard removing an unexploded mine from the side of a Japanese-owned oil tanker.
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Iran on Sunday urged Britain to contain "domestic political forces" intent on escalating tensions between the two countries following Iran's seizure of a British-flagged oil tanker.
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Ongoing tensions between Britain and Iran over the seizure by Iran of an oil tanker is also set to sustain demand for safe-haven core European debt.
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The United Kingdom seized an Iranian oil tanker at the start of July, "on suspicion it was breaking European sanctions by taking oil to Syria," per CNBC.
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The other companies where workers plan to join the strike are Kuwait Oil Company, Kuwait Oil Tanker company, Equate Petrochemical Industries Company and Kuwait Gulf Oil Company.
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It would also allow for removing mines from around the ports and responding to a derelict oil tanker anchored off Salif that could explode at any time.
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A few weeks later, a UK Navy frigate leveled its guns at Iranian gunboats that had attempted to maneuver a BP-owned oil tanker into Iranian waters.
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Burhan Warsame, Galmudug's minister for ports and sea transport, also told Reuters the same pirates who seized the oil tanker last month "must have hijacked this dhow".
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LONDON (Reuters) - Gibraltar's Chief Minister Fabian Picardo had a "constructive and positive" meeting with Iranian officials in London about the detained oil tanker Grace 1, Gibraltar said.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on Tuesday Iran would respond to Britain's "piracy" over the seizure of an Iranian oil tanker in Gibraltar.
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Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)This was the dramatic moment that the Nigerian Navy showed six men who they say hijacked a Saudi Arabian oil tanker off Ivory Coast.
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The alert comes just one day after three Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps gunboats attempted to seize the BP oil tanker British Heritage near the Strait of Hormuz.
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An Iranian oil tanker wanted by the U.S. that authorities thought was heading toward Greece is not scheduled to dock in the country, Greece's prime minister said.
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Boats believed to belong to the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps failed to seize a British oil tanker in the Persian Gulf on Wednesday, according to reports.
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Iran has seized an oil tanker it says is delivering smuggled oil to the United Arab Emirates becoming the third tanker it has seized in recent months.
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After British forces seized an Iranian tanker believed to be in violation of European Union sanctions, the Iranians tried to capture the BP oil tanker British Heritage.
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The move comes as the armed Houthi movement controlling much of northern Yemen steps up attacks on the kingdom, hitting a Saudi oil tanker on Tuesday. [nL5N9303RG4DR].
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's seized oil tanker Grace 1 will be freed by Tuesday evening, the country's semi-official Fars news agency quoted unidentified Gibraltar authorities as saying.
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On Thursday, a deployment of British Marines stormed an Iranian oil tanker accused of carrying crude oil to Syria in breach of sanctions against the Assad regime.
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Before the financial crisis, when a dry bulk ship or oil tanker could earn over $200,000 a day, German banks were among the most prominent financing players.
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The accident comes three months after a United States naval destroyer, the U.S.S. McCain, collided with an oil tanker off the coast of Singapore, leaving 10 dead.
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Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said on Thursday that the Iranian oil tanker was carrying crude oil from Iran, according to the state news agency IRNA.
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Cover: This photo released by the official news agency of the Iranian Oil Ministry, SHANA, shows Iranian oil tanker Sabiti traveling through the Red Sea Friday, Oct.
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An officer had a series of questions, she said, like which ships Iran hid weapons in, and why Iran had captured a British oil tanker in July.
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NEW DELHI, Dec 16 (Reuters) - India's foreign ministry said on Monday that 20 of its nationals had been kidnapped from an oil tanker in West African waters.
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"The oil tanker ... sustained damages to the body when it was hit by missiles 60 miles (96 kilometers) from the Saudi port city of Jiddah," IRNA said.
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The report followed a 60-day review, which Richardson ordered after the USS John S. McCain collided with the Liberian oil tanker Alnic MC on Aug. 85033.
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Prices moved even higher on Thursday after US officials said that five armed Iranian boats had unsuccessfully tried to seize a British oil tanker in the Persian Gulf.
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"Copper is a very slow business in terms of new project development - I always equate it to an oil tanker trying to turn," Macquarie analyst Vivienne Lloyd said.
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In January 2018, the Iranian oil tanker Sanchi struck the Chinese freighter CF Crystal 257 kilometers (160 miles) off the coast of Shanghai in the East China Sea.
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With Iranian attacks on Saudi oil production, civil war in Yemen, oil tanker attacks, the region is more of a tinderbox that it has been in many years.
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United Arab Emirates (UAE) state news agency WAM reported that UAE coalition forces had destroyed two boats "which were threatening a commercial oil tanker" in the Red Sea.
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But the seizure of a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz by Iran last month has put pressure on London to consider a more robust stance.
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Five boats believed to belong to the Iran approached a British oil tanker in the Persian Gulf on Wednesday, asking it to stop in Iranian waters close by.
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This story was updated at 5:30 pm ET Iran's Revolutionary Guard have seized a British-flagged oil tanker off the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian media reported Friday.
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Tracking oil tanker flows will be central in determining whether OPEC is serious in stabilizing supply balances, or if it's still maxing out production to protect market share.
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TOKYO, July 22 (Reuters) - Japanese government bond futures rose on Monday as heightened tensions following Iran's seizure of a British oil tanker boosted demand for safe-haven assets.
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On Wednesday, armed Iranian boats unsuccessfully attempted to seize a British oil tanker in the Persian Gulf, according to two US officials with direct knowledge of the incident.
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Iran's actions in the Strait came just hours after authorities in Gibraltar agreed to extend the detention of an Iranian oil tanker in its custody for 30 days.
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On July 10 the Montrose saw off an apparent attempt by Iranian vessels to block the passage of a British oil tanker at the northern entrance of Hormuz.
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In September, military forces allied with Tripoli said they had captured a Russian-flagged oil tanker and its crew trying to smuggle oil from the port of Zawara.
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Three Iranian gunboats harassed a British oil tanker, and attempted to force it to steer out of international waters into Iranian territory on Wednesday, the UK government said.
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The British oil tanker which Iran confronted with three gunboats is a BP ship which was worried that it may get caught up in just such a skirmish.
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Iran's state-run IRIB News Agency aired footage of what it says are the crew members of the Stena Impero, the British oil tanker it seized last Friday.
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Nashiri is now facing death-penalty charges before a military commission at Guantanamo Bay stemming from the attack on the Cole and on a French-flagged oil tanker.
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Ongoing tensions between Britain and Iran over the seizure by Iran of an oil tanker is also set to keep demand of safe-haven core European debt intact.
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LONDON, July 4 (Reuters) - Britain's Foreign Office confirmed on Thursday that its ambassador to Tehran had been summoned over the seizure of an Iranian oil tanker in Gibraltar.
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He volunteered to work on an oil tanker with the Atlantic Fleet, even though he was increasingly disturbed by what he was reading and hearing about the war.
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The Agia Zoni II, a 45-year-old oil tanker, sank early Sunday morning near the island of Salamis, about seven miles from the country's main port, Piraeus.
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OSLO, Sept 13 (Reuters) - The fire onboard an oil tanker at Norway's Sture crude export terminal has been put out, the local fire service told Reuters on Friday.
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OSLO (Reuters) - The fire onboard an oil tanker located by Norway's Sture oil export terminal is still ongoing, a spokeswoman at the local fire service said on Friday.
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The USS John S. McCain, a guided missile destroyer, collided with an oil tanker earlier this week, the second ship within three months to hit a commercial vessel.
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When an oil tanker is detected, Captain Cole said, the officer on deck or the commanding officer will propose some kind of evasive action to avoid a collision.
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Armed assailants killed the captain of the San Ramon oil tanker last Monday after boarding the ship while it was anchored off the Jose terminal in eastern Venezuela.
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The Gerd Knutsen oil tanker this week finished discharging 960,000 barrels of crude oil claimed both by the company and its Venezuelan parent, state-run oil firm PDVSA.
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In this 1989 production, originally directed by August Everding, which updates the story to the industrial age, the Dutchman's stage-filling ship resembles a massive black oil tanker.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's foreign ministry confirmed that the Iranian-owned oil tanker Sabiti had been attacked in the Red Sea on Friday and was damaged, state TV reported.
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An explosion in an oil tanker that belongs to National Iranian Oil Company has set the vessel on fire 60 miles from the Saudi port city of Jeddah.
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Beijing (CNN)Thirty-two sailors are missing after an oil tanker and freight ship collided off the east coast of China Saturday, according to China's Ministry of Transport.
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A British-flagged oil tanker held by Iran since July was released Friday and was heading toward the United Arab Emirates, the company that owns the vessel said.
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The report comes after the guided-missile destroyer, which was en route to Singapore for a routine port visit, collided with an oil tanker three times its size.
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"The Adrian Darya oil tanker finally docked on the Mediterranean coast ... and unloaded its cargo," Iranian state news agency IRNA quoted Abbas Mousavi as saying, according to Reuters.
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Instead, his rusted sheets of weatherproof steel, more than 5553 feet high, make up a doubled oblong shape that lists to one side like a sinking oil tanker.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The Iranian news agency IRNA reported on Thursday that the Front Altair, an oil tanker damaged in an attack in the Gulf of Oman, had sunk.
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They brought about 120 others safely onto their ship and transferred them to an oil tanker from which they were later moved to another rescue ship bound for Italy.
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Somali pirates hijacked an oil tanker last month, the first such seizure of a vessel since 2012, but released it after a clash with the marine force in Puntland.
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A day after the threat level was reportedly raised, armed Iranian boats unsuccessfully tried to intercept a British oil tanker as it was crossing into the Strait of Hormuz.
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Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)An oil tanker explosion in Niger killed at least 55 people, some of whom were trying to collect spilled fuel after the vehicle overturned, authorities say.
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Conservationists fear that increased oil tanker traffic, an inevitable side effect of the expansion into Vancouver, will fatally disrupt the resident whales' habitat due to noise and physical pollution.
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In March, they hijacked an oil tanker, Aris 13, with eight Sri Lankan crew on board, the first time a commercial ship was commandeered in the region since 2012.
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Meanwhile, Iran continues to hold the British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero, which it seized in a commando-style raid July 19 after the taking of the Adrian Darya.
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The NEB also made new recommendations to mitigate harm to Pacific Ocean killer whales, which environmentalists warn will face disruption from increased oil tanker traffic exporting crude to Asia.
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"We witnessed the seizure of an oil tanker carrying Iranian oil in the Strait of Gibraltar which in our view is a violation of (the nuclear deal)," Araqchi said.
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Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Friday they had captured a British-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf in response to Britain's seizure of an Iranian tanker earlier this month.
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Oil major BP has sold the cargoes, carried on board the oil tanker Shaybah, to independent refiners in China's eastern Shandong province, one of the sources said on Friday.
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There was no sign of a leak from the oil tanker, although it would return to port for inspection, the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre for southern Norway told Reuters.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and President Trump have accused Iran of being responsible for the oil tanker attacks based on U.S. intelligence that has not been made public.
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The collision on August 21st between the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (pictured) and a heavier oil tanker near Singapore was the final straw for Admiral Richardson.
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The seizure of the Stena Impero came just hours after authorities in Gibraltar agreed to extend the detention of an Iranian oil tanker in its custody for 30 days.
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Frontline's plan to form the world's largest private oil tanker group was first revealed in January when DHT said it had received an unsolicited offer, which it later rejected.
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Somali pirates hijacked an oil tanker in March, the first such seizure of a vessel since 2012, but released it after a clash with the marine force in Puntland.
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Pakistan's Awami Tehreek Secretary General, Khurram Nawaz Gandapur, tweeted out a video on July 5 of an airplane narrowly avoiding a collision with an oil tanker on the runway.
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Iran's capture of a British oil tanker last week sparked worries about supply disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz, through which about a fifth of the world's oil flows.
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Two fishing ships were sunk by the ice, and other ships — including ferries and an oil tanker — had to be escorted to ice-free waters by the formidable Amundsen.
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Indeed, Mr Ashley hinted as much, admitting he may have struggled to keep on top of things as his firm grew from "an inflatable [dinghy]" to "an oil tanker".
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Earlier Thursday, Iranian media confirmed that the IRGC had seized an oil tanker on Sunday, which it accused of smuggling oil, near Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz.
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After coming to power last year, the Liberals imposed a moratorium on oil tanker traffic along the northern coast of British Columbia, a move seen killing the project's chances.
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LAGOS (Reuters) - An oil tanker truck caught fire in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos on Thursday, killing nine people and burning out 53 other vehicles, an emergency agency official said.
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On March 24, 1989, just after midnight, Exxon's oil tanker hit a reef, releasing 21625 million gallons of oil into Prince William Sound on the southern coast of Alaska.
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Last month, a Saudi oil tanker was hit off Yemen's main port city of Hodeidah, suffering limited damage, in what coalition forces said was an attack by the Houthis.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Iraq's oil ministry said on Sunday it has no connection with an oil tanker seized by Iran in the Gulf for smuggling fuel, Iraqi News Agency reported.
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On July 19, Iran's Revolutionary Guard seized the British-flagged Stena Impero oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz in an apparent retaliation against the Grace 1's seizure.
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Reports emerged Friday afternoon first that Iran had seized a British-flagged oil tanker transiting the Strait of Hormuz, then that Iran had also seized a Liberian-flagged tanker.
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The UK-flagged oil tanker BW Elm passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday and Wednesday, even though Britain warned ships to avoid the waterway amid Iran tensions.
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"All options are possible but there is nothing confirmed so far," Badr al-Khashti, chairman of Kuwait Oil Tanker Company (KOTC), told Reuters, adding no decision had been taken.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran is ready to dispatch its naval fleet to escort its Adrian Darya-1 oil tanker, which is currently in Gibraltar, Iran's navy commander said on Sunday.
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LONDON, July 18 (Reuters) - Gibraltar's Chief Minister Fabian Picardo had a "constructive and positive" meeting with Iranian officials in London about the detained oil tanker Grace 1, Gibraltar said.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British defense minister Penny Mordaunt said on Thursday the Royal Navy had upheld international law by helping a merchant oil tanker pass through the Strait of Hormuz.
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Iranian state TV reported Thursday that Revolutionary Guard forces seized an oil tanker flying under the Panamanian flag last weekend, saying it was smuggling about 264,000 gallons of oil.
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And 10 sailors died in August when the John S. McCain — another destroyer, named after Senator John McCain's father and grandfather — collided with an oil tanker while approaching Singapore.
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The current whereabouts of the Iranian oil tanker is unknown, with reports suggesting it appears to have turned off its transponder in the Mediterranean west of Syria on Tuesday.
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The collision last month of the John S. McCain — another destroyer, named after Mr. McCain's father and grandfather — and an oil tanker in Southeast Asia left 10 sailors dead.
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WASHINGTON, Aug 30 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday the United States has reliable information the Iranian oil tanker Adrian Darya is headed to Syria.
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Charged before a military commission, Mr. Darbi agreed in February 2014 to plead guilty to terrorism-related offenses involving a 2002 Qaeda attack on a French-flagged oil tanker.
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The design of the new system was so confusing that the sailors using it accidentally guided the McCain into an oil tanker in the Singapore Strait on Aug. 21.
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Ships and aircraft from five nations had launched a huge search at sea after the McCain's pre-dawn collision with an oil tanker east of Singapore on Aug. 21.
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Right now, as I write, I can see a red oil tanker and a gray naval destroyer floating in the jellyfish-and-croc-infested water outside my hotel window.
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In March, pirates hijacked an oil tanker and temporarily detained its Sri Lankan crew before releasing the boat and the men without conditions, Somali officials said at the time.
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Prices rose almost 2% on Friday after an Iranian oil tanker was attacked off Saudi Arabia's coast in the Red Sea, which stoked geopolitical tensions in the Middle East.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Stena Impero, the British-flagged oil tanker seized by Iran, has reached international waters on route to Dubai, the Swedish owner of the tanker said on Friday.
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Iranian state television said the explosion damaged two storerooms aboard the oil tanker and caused an oil leak into the Red Sea near the Saudi port city of Jiddah.
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In May, an Iranian oil tanker carrying more than 1 million barrels of fuel oil suffered a reported malfunction in the same area as the Sabiti came under attack.
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Early in the afternoon on Tuesday, an oil tanker unmoored by the storm crashed into the only bridge that connects Kansai International Airport in Osaka Bay to the mainland.
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HONG KONG — An oil tanker caught fire in Hong Kong on Tuesday morning, leaving one man dead and rescuers scrambling to find two other crew members who were missing.
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He also labeled as "piracy" the seizure by Britain in July of an Iranian oil tanker near Gibraltar, that London accused of violating European Union sanctions on Iran ally Syria.
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The U.S. military released a video late on Thursday that it said showed Iran's Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) removing an unexploded mine from the side of the Japanese-owned oil tanker.
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Iran's port operators and shipping sectors, including top cargo operator the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) and oil tanker group NITC, will once again be blacklisted on Nov.
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The Norwegian Maritime Agency said that three explosions were reported on board the Marshall Islands-flagged Front Altair oil tanker, which is owned by the Bermuda-based Norwegian company Frontline.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - An Iranian oil tanker has broken down in the Red Sea but the crew are safe and repairs are underway, Iran's state news agency IRNA reported on Wednesday.
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"Iran categorically rejects the U.S. unfounded claim with regard to 13 June oil tanker incidents and condemns it in the strongest possible terms," the Iranian mission said in a statement.
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Last week, Reuters exclusively reported that a China-owned oil tanker, cited by the U.S. government as carrying Iranian oil, changed name in an apparent effort to evade U.S. sanctions.
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Iran's capture of a British oil tanker late last week sparked concern about supply disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz, through which about a fifth of the world's supply flows.
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Britain's government said Iranian boats tried to seize a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf Wednesday before a British warship intervened, the Telegraph reports.
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CO) has agreed a $1.71 billion deal to sell its oil tanker division to its controlling shareholder, who in turn will enter an ownership consortium with Japan's Mitsui & Co (8031.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's failure to prevent Iran's Revolutionary Guards from seizing a British-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz shows the decline of the once mighty British navy.
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The giant oil tanker burned for over a week after it collided with a Hong Kong-registered freighter in the East China Sea, about 160 miles (260 km) from Shanghai.
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan naval forces have seized a Sierra Leone-flagged oil tanker on suspicion of illegally entering Libyan waters in an attempt to smuggle gasoline, authorities said on Saturday.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's top diplomat said on Sunday that only "prudence and foresight" could alleviate tensions between his country and Britain after Tehran's seizure of a British-flagged oil tanker.
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Iran has called on Britain to immediately release the oil tanker, which was seized by British Royal Marines on suspicion it was breaking European sanctions by taking oil to Syria.
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The operational pause comes in the wake of the USS John McCain's collision early Monday with an oil tanker east of Singapore -- the fourth accident in Asian waters this year.
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Britain urged Iran to "de-escalate the situation in the region" after the British Heritage, a Suezmax oil tanker operated by BP under an Isle of Man flag, was approached.
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DUBAI, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Iran said on Tuesday that Britain might free its oil tanker Grace 1 soon, after some documents were exchanged that would help the seized ship's release.
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The second ship, the British-owned oil tanker Mesdar, was bound for Saudi Arabia on Friday when it sharply veered off course toward Iran, according to the ship-tracking website.
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It outfitted an oil tanker, the Esso Atlantic, with CO 2 detectors to measure how fast the oceans could absorb excess carbon, and hired mathematicians to build sophisticated climate models.
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Last week, a leaked email showed that the US government offered millions of dollars to the captain of an Iranian oil tanker in exchange for letting the ship be captured.
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The former UK Defence Secretary has offered more insight into how Iran's Revolutionary Guard corps were able to seize a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz last month.
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Morgan Stanley sold its physical oil business and trading team to U.S.-based Castleton Commodities in 2015, but retains stakes in oil tanker operator Heidmar and a marine services firm.
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Another attack was also fended off by the navy south of Akassa in Delta state, where pirates twice tried to hijack the oil tanker MT Rio Spirit, the navy said.
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Burhan Warsame, Galmudug's minister for ports and sea transport, told Reuters the same pirates from Puntland who seized the oil tanker last month - Kombe's gang - "must have hijacked this dhow".
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"Iran's strong establishment will soon slap Britain in the face for daring to seize the Iranian oil tanker," cleric Kazem Sedighi told worshippers during Tehran's Friday prayer sermon, TV reported.
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Earlier Iran called on Britain to immediately release the oil tanker that British Royal Marines seized last week on suspicion it was breaking European sanctions by taking oil to Syria.
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While the oil tanker trade has picked up, the container and dry bulk shipping industries are struggling with a glut of ships, a faltering global economy and weaker consumer demand.
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The McCain collided with an oil tanker near Singapore in August 2017, killing 10 American sailors and prompting a Navy investigation and the removal of the ship's two top officers.
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POLICE, Poland — At an isolated shipyard on Poland's Baltic coast, men in coveralls used welding torches under a cold drizzle, forging an oil tanker for a customer in the Netherlands.
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LAGOS, Nigeria — An overturned oil tanker exploded in Nigeria, killing many of the dozens of people who were scooping up its leaking fuel, the police and witnesses said on Saturday.
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About a year ago, more than 30 residents in the same area were burned to death while scooping fuel from an oil tanker that had been involved in an accident.
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OSLO, Sept 13 (Reuters) - The fire onboard an oil tanker located by Norway's Sture oil export terminal is still ongoing, a spokeswoman at the local fire service said on Friday.
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Beijing (CNN)An oil tanker that collided with a freight ship off the east coast of China was still on fire Monday and at risk of exploding, Chinese authorities said.
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Iranian state television said the explosion damaged two storerooms aboard the unnamed oil tanker and caused an oil leak into the Red Sea near the Saudi port city of Jiddah.
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About two months later, the USS John S. McCain guided-missile destroyer collided with a Liberian-flagged oil tanker east of the straits of Malacca and Singapore, killing 10 sailors.
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The Islamist regime has spent most of this year ramping up its violent attacks on its neighbors in the Middle East and on oil tanker traffic along the Persian Gulf.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - An oil tanker carrying fuel from the Middle East for Taiwan's state oil refiner CPC Corp was suspected to have been attacked earlier on Thursday, the company said.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said two oil tanker incidents in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday were "suspicious" and called for regional dialogue to avoid tensions.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal government is facing a national election in October and overhauling environmental assessments and the oil tanker moratorium were key promises in his 2015 election campaign.
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"An updated emergency ocean model simulation shows that waters polluted by the sinking Sanchi oil tanker could reach Japan within a month," the center said a report posted on January 16.
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OSLO (Reuters) - Frontline's oil tanker Front Altair is still afloat in the Gulf of Oman, a spokesman for the firm said, denying an earlier report by the Iranian news agency IRNA.
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His digitally constructed photo series includes the Death Star, the tallest building in the world and the largest existing oil tanker placed in settings that put their vast size in perspective.
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Pirates hijacked an oil tanker off Somalia last week, the first such attack in the region since 2012 after shipping firms hired private security and international warships started patrolling nearby waters.
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The same month, Canada's recently elected Liberal government said it will impose an oil tanker ban on British Columbia's northern coast, effectively slamming the door on Enbridge Inc's Northern Gateway pipeline.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian authorities thwarted the hijacking of a Thai oil tanker on Thursday and arrested 10 suspected Indonesian pirates on board the ship, a maritime security agency commander said.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a television interview on Monday that it was unfortunate an Iranian oil tanker detained off Gibraltar had been allowed to leave.
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Iran's ambassador to the United Nations told the BBC earlier Wednesday there would be consequences if Britain didn't release an Iranian oil tanker it seized recently off the coast of Gibraltar.
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It said the oil tanker had 12 foreign crew members on board and was involved in smuggling some 1 million liters (264,000 gallons) of fuel from Iranian smugglers to foreign customers.
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Iranian Revolutionary Guards seized British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero at the Strait of Hormuz on Friday in apparent retaliation for the British capture of an Iranian tanker two weeks earlier.
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Last week, armed Iranian boats tried unsuccessfully to impede the passage of a British oil tanker in the Persian Gulf, according to two US officials with direct knowledge of the incident.
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The decision comes after Iran seized British-flagged Stena Impero oil tanker on Friday in the Strait of Hormuz, considered one of the world's most vital waterways for global oil supply.
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Kombe, who headed the pirate gang that commandeered the oil tanker, told Reuters there were four groups of pirates from Puntland "who are still in ocean hunting for ships to hijack".
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Bodies of some of the 10 missing American soldiers were found after the USS John S. McCain collided with an oil tanker near Singapore on Monday, according to the U.S. Navy.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's Liberal government will this year deliver on its pledge for a moratorium on oil tanker traffic along the northern coast of British Columbia, CBC News reported on Friday.
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His ouster follows four separate accidents, some deadly, involving US Navy ships in Asia this year, including Monday's collision between the USS John S. McCain and an oil tanker near Singapore.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Britain and the United States will regret detaining an Iranian oil tanker, a deputy commander of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards said on Thursday, according to the Tasnim news agency.
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DUBAI, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Iran is ready to dispatch its naval fleet to escort its Adrian Darya-1 oil tanker, which is currently in Gibraltar, Iran's navy commander said on Sunday.
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The Iranian gunboats, which the UK government has accused of trying to seize the BP oil tanker British Heritage, backed away after receiving verbal warnings from the frigate escorting the tanker.
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The group's oil production has fallen about 217 percent (over 275 oil tanker trucks have been destroyed), with revenue from oil sales down as much as 22011 percent, the Pentagon says.
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CAIRO, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Iraq's oil ministry said on Sunday it has no connection with an oil tanker seized by Iran in the Gulf for smuggling fuel, Iraqi News Agency reported.
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Picardo would not apply to renew an order to detain Grace 1, the report said, adding that he is now satisfied that the oil tanker is no longer heading to Syria.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran said on Sunday that an oil tanker sized by its elite forces in the Gulf for smuggling fuel was an Iraqi ship, the official IRNA news agency reported.
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Late last week, Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they had captured a British-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz — through which flows more than a fifth of global oil supply.
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That kicked off a sequence of events that saw Tehran seize a British-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf two weeks later, heightening tension on a vital international oil shipping route.
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USS John S. McCain The USS John S. McCain, a Navy guided-missile destroyer, collided with the oil tanker Alnic MC about 50 nautical miles east of Singapore on August 21.
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LONDON, July 11 (Reuters) - British defence minister Penny Mordaunt said on Thursday the Royal Navy had upheld international law by helping a merchant oil tanker pass through the Strait of Hormuz.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is concerned about action by Iranian vessels to stop a commercial oil tanker, Prime Minister Theresa May's spokesman said on Thursday, calling for a de-escalation of tensions.
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The collision in August of the John S. McCain — another destroyer, one named after Senator John McCain's father and grandfather — and an oil tanker while approaching Singapore left 230 sailors dead.
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My daily life will not be affected by a lack of upgrades until a train pulling an oil tanker falls into the Mississippi and poisons the surrounding ecosystem and everything downstream.
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BOSASSO, March 16 (Reuters) - Somali maritime forces have exchanged gunfire with the hijackers of an oil tanker in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland, the head of the maritime force said.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi movement attacked a Saudi oil tanker in the Red Sea, causing slight damage, Saudi state television quoted the Saudi-led coalition as saying on Wednesday.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - The capture of an Iranian oil tanker by Britain has set "a dangerous precedent and must end now", Iran's foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Twitter on Monday.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - An oil tanker carrying 3,400 tons of naphtha exploded during discharge at a southern Chinese port on Thursday and one person on board was missing, official Xinhua news agency reported.
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The US Navy has now recovered the remains of all ten sailors who went missing after the American warship USS John S. McCain collided with an oil tanker near Singapore last week.
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OSLO (Reuters) - Crude oil tanker firm Frontline, which has made an unsolicited offer to buy competitor DHT Holdings, must raise its bid for the attempted takeover to succeed, analysts said on Monday.
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Iranian state news agency IRNA reported Friday that an oil tanker belonging to the National Iranian Oil Company had been hit by two missiles, causing oil to spill into the Red Sea.
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The Comfort, a vessel transformed from a hulking oil tanker into a 1,000-bed hospital ship, has treated more than 20,000 people along its stops in various Central and South American nations.
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MINE IMAGES The U.S. military released a video late on Thursday that it said showed Iran's Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) removing an unexploded mine from the side of the Japanese-owned oil tanker.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - First oil tanker carrying 140,000 tons of crude oil started discharging on Monday for delivery into a 770 kilometer (480 mile) Myanmar oil pipeline, China's state news agency Xinhua reported.
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In 1987, nearly 5,000 people died in the world's worst peacetime shipping disaster when an overloaded passenger ferry Dona Paz collided with an oil tanker off Mindoro island in the central Philippines.
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The price of crude jumped on Monday following Iran's seizure on Friday of a British-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, but had pared initial, steep gains by 1427 GMT.
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An Iranian oil tanker, moored at the port of Assaluyeh for more than a year, set sail for South Korea last week, heralding a new period of uncertainty for world crude prices.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The British operator of an oil tanker seized by armed guards in the Gulf said the vessel, the Stena Impero, was in full compliance with all navigation and international regulations.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May will meet with Gibraltar's Chief Minister Fabian Picardo later on Wednesday to discuss the detained Iranian oil tanker Grace 1, a spokesman for May said.
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DUBAI, July 21 (Reuters) - Iran's top diplomat said on Sunday that only "prudence and foresight" could alleviate tensions between his country and Britain after Tehran's seizure of a British-flagged oil tanker.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he would talk to the United Kingdom after Iran's Revolutionary Guards said it had seized a British-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Tensions in the Gulf are unlikely to spiral out of control, French armed forces chief Francois Lecointre said on Thursday after Britain accused Iran of harassing a British oil tanker.
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British Royal Marines seized the Iranian oil tanker on July 4 off the coast of the British Mediterranean territory of Gibraltar on suspicion of violating EU sanctions by taking oil to Syria.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Britain's seizure of an Iranian oil tanker off Gibraltar was illegal and will be detrimental for Britain, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday, according to the official presidency website.
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The price of crude jumped on Monday following Iran's seizure on Friday of a British-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, but had pared initial, steep gains by 1507 GMT.
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Read more: Iran was able to capture a British oil tanker because it only gave the Royal Navy 1 hour's notice to escort it, rather than 24, former UK Defence Secretary says
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A Navy explosives expert on Wednesday said that mines allegedly used to attack an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz bear "a striking resemblance" to mines featured in Iranian military parades.
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"The Aris-13 is a little oil tanker that was hijacked while cutting corners through a no-go area," says Chris Farrell, group commercial director of private security group Neptune Maritime Security.
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Winter shall, German Energy Company; Maersk Tanker, one of the biggest oil shipping companies in the world; and Danish Thompson Oil Tanker also announced to end cooperation with Iran in recent days.
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Iran has seized another oil tanker in the Persian Gulf — this one, it says, was smuggling oil to Arab nations — weeks after it detained a British-flagged tanker and attacked several others.
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The Nigerian navy on Wednesday rescued an oil tanker, the MT Gaz Providence, and its 21 crew members from a separate pirate attack near Bonny Island, the navy said in a statement.
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A U.S.-led coalition which is separately fighting against the jihadist militants said late on Friday it had carried out 168 IS oil tanker trucks near Palmyra in a large air raid.
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The story is this: Logic shot part of the video on the Mary A. Whalen, an oil tanker moored at Red Hook, Brooklyn that's managed as a non-profit by Carolina Salguero.
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TAIPEI, June 13 (Reuters) - An oil tanker chartered by Taiwan's state oil refiner CPC Corp to carry fuel from the Middle East was attacked earlier on Thursday, a senior company official said.
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The Greek authorities scrambled on Thursday to clean up fuel leaked by an oil tanker that sank near Athens, putting popular beaches off limits to swimmers and raising fears of environmental damage.
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After getting to the outer reaches of New York Harbor, he returned to deeper waters off Long Island, where he sank the British oil tanker Coimbra about 100 miles from New York.
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The McCain was headed to Singapore for a routine visit when it collided with the Alnic MC, a chemical and oil tanker about three times the size of the guided-missile destroyer.
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BANGKOK — Four days after the collision of the United States destroyer John S. McCain with an oil tanker east of Singapore, the search for 10 missing sailors continues to be painstakingly slow.
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Most of these attacks, including a hijacked oil tanker last month, are believed to have been carried out by pirates from central Somalia or from Puntland, a semiautonomous region in northeastern Somalia.
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All of the recent attacks, including a hijacked oil tanker last month, are believed to have been carried out by buccaneers from central Somalia or Puntland, a semiautonomous region in northeastern Somalia.
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Images show an orange oil tanker and two large blue containers positioned midway across the three-lane Tienditas Bridge, which connects Cucuta with San Antonio city in Tachira State in western Venezuela.
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LONDON, June 13 (Reuters) - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said two oil tanker incidents in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday were "suspicious" and called for regional dialogue to avoid tensions.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - An Iranian oil tanker collided with a grain freighter in the East China Sea over the weekend, erupting in fire and leaving its entire crew of 32 dead or missing.
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An oil tanker chartered by Taiwan's state oil refiner CPC Corp to carry fuel from the Middle East was suspected to have been attacked earlier on Thursday, a senior company official said.
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"The analogy might be a oil tanker that drives on the highway compared to a sports car," explained Aaron Cypess, a metabolism and brown fat researcher at the National Institutes of Health.
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Ahmed al Darbi, a 42-year-old from Saudi Arabia, pleaded guilty in 2014 for his role in a 2002 terrorist attack on a French oil tanker off the coast of Yemen.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - Is there a better way to signal the hydrocarbon era's end than by flipping a 1,000-foot oil tanker vertically from the sea to create the world's largest sculpture?
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WASHINGTON, Aug 19 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a television interview on Monday that it was unfortunate an Iranian oil tanker detained off Gibraltar had been allowed to leave.
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An abandoned and decaying oil tanker near the coast of war-torn Yemen could soon rupture or explode, the United Nations (UN) has warned, potentially triggering one of the world's largest oil spills.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran summoned the British ambassador in Tehran over the "illegal seizure" of an Iranian oil tanker in Gibraltar on Thursday, Iranian state TV quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi as saying.
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On Friday, Iran said it had seized a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, but denied Washington's assertion that the U.S. Navy had downed an Iranian drone nearby earlier this week.
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At around 8:09 am local time, a US military aircraft observed boats belonging to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) near the Marshall Islands-flagged Front Altair, the other damaged oil tanker.
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The Panamanian-flagged oil tanker MT Riah stopped transmitting its location early Sunday near Qeshm Island, which has a Revolutionary Guard base on it, according to data listed on tracking site Maritime Traffic.
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The price of crude LCOc1 jumped on Monday following Iran's seizure on Friday of a British-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, but had pared initial, steep gains by 1507 GMT.
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Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Friday captured a British-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf after Britain seized an Iranian vessel earlier this month, further raising tensions along a vital international oil shipping route.
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The Navy has released the identities of the 10 sailors who have been missing since the Monday collision between the John S. McCain destroyer and an oil tanker off the coast of Singapore.
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LONDON, July 19 (Reuters) - The British-operated oil tanker Mesdar, which had turned in the direction of Iran, changed course again on Friday to head back into the Gulf, Refinitiv tracking data showed.
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"The Prime Minister and Chief Minister... discussed the latest developments in the Gibraltarian legal case on the detained oil tanker Grace I," a spokesman for May's office said after talks with Fabian Picardo.
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According to Les Echos, Kayrros aggregates a ton of data to predict oil and gas consumption, such as road traffic, customs data, pipeline and oil tanker information, satellite images and social network data.
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In the meantime, as we wait for global drug policy to turn around at oil tanker speed, there are ways—working within the current system of prohibition—to make drugs better in 2016.
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Just hours before, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) had said it had seized a foreign oil tanker near the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, a critical international waterway in the Persian Gulf.
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DUBAI, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps has seized a foreign oil tanker in the Gulf that was smuggling fuel to some Arab states, Iran's state TV reported on Sunday without elaborating.
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DUBAI, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Iran said on Sunday that an oil tanker sized by its elite forces in the Gulf for smuggling fuel was an Iraqi ship, the official IRNA news agency reported.
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Iranian authorities seized two British-linked oil tankers in the strait last Friday, to retaliate for the UK's seizure of an Iranian oil tanker off the British territory of Gibraltar on July 4.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A highly placed Gibraltarian government source denied on Tuesday an Iranian news agency report which said the Iranian oil tanker Grace 1 would be leaving the British overseas territory on Tuesday.
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Iranian commandos seized a British-flagged tanker in the Strait of Hormuz on July 19, two weeks British forces captured an Iranian oil tanker near Gibraltar, accusing it of violating sanctions on Syria.
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Iran's Adrian Darya 1 oil tanker, formerly known as the Grace 1, turned off its Automatic Identification System and is sailing near the Syrian coast, despite assurances that it wouldn't go to Syria.
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The Navy's top officer said Monday that there was no indication as of yet that the Monday collision between the USS John S. McCain and an oil tanker in the Pacific was intentional.
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On July 11, the Montrose repelled three IRGC gunboats which had been harassing a BP oil tanker, reportedly by positioning itself in front of the Iranians and pointing its deck guns at them.
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Shipping tracker data showed the UK-flagged crude oil tanker Pacific Voyager operated by Mitsui OSK Lines Ltd took a similar route to the British Heritage on Wednesday through the Strait of Hormuz.
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LONDON, July 11 (Reuters) - Britain is concerned about action by Iranian vessels to stop a commercial oil tanker, Prime Minister Theresa May's spokesman said on Thursday, calling for a de-escalation of tensions.
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It's also the namesake of a 64-foot oil tanker named Tamaya 1, which left the port of Dakar in Senegal on April 21 and broadcast her last known location on April 22.
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GENEVA, July 11 (Reuters) - Britain and the United States will regret detaining an Iranian oil tanker, a deputy commander of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards said on Thursday, according to the Tasnim news agency.
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The Pacific Voyager oil tanker stopped as part of a routine procedure to adjust its arrival time at its next port of call and has since continued on its way, the official said.
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A British warship that defended an oil tanker from Iranian forces but failed to save another has had 115 confrontations with Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in the Persian Gulf since July.
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Britain also said earlier this month that it had apprehended an Iranian oil tanker off the southern coast of Spain for attempting to transport oil to Syria in violation of European Union sanctions.
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OSLO, June 13 (Reuters) - Frontline's oil tanker Front Altair is still afloat in the Gulf of Oman, a spokesman for the firm said, denying an earlier report by the Iranian news agency IRNA.
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Last month, the Salina, an Iranian-flagged oil tanker under American sanctions, docked in Jinzhou Bay, a port in northeastern China, according to data from VesselsValue, a website that analyzes global shipping information.
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After warning that Mr. Trump was prepared to use force because of Iran's suspected role in oil tanker attacks, Mr. Pompeo flew to Florida on Monday to strategize with generals at Central Command.
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RIYADH (Reuters) - Crew members of Frontline's oil tanker Front Altair, one of two vessels attacked this week in the Gulf of Oman, have landed in Dubai, the Norwegian ship's operator said on Saturday.
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WASHINGTON, Aug 30 (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday blacklisted the Iranian oil tanker Adrian Darya, which is at the center of a confrontation between Washington and Tehran, and sanctioned its captain.
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The Navy released the names of a sailor confirmed dead and nine others listed as missing in the collision of the destroyer John S. McCain and an oil tanker near Singapore on Monday.
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There were at least 43 bullet holes on the cement wall behind the Americans, most of them at chest height, and eight more on a taller empty oil tanker truck behind the wall.
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"All Hands," as it starts, is narrated by a Coast Guard officer who falls off an oil tanker into the water and struggles to find his way out from beneath its enormous hull.
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In the short time since the attacks, Aramco has kept its exports at around 6.5 million barrels a day, close to normal levels, according to Kpler, a firm that tracks oil tanker traffic.
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In the short time since the attacks, Aramco has kept its exports at around 6.5 million barrels a day, close to normal levels, according to Kpler, a firm that tracks oil tanker traffic.
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READ: Iran says it seized a British oil tanker Democrats have been quick to point out that the decision, which could trigger a full-scale war with Iran, was made without congressional approval.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - An Iranian government spokesman on Saturday called the apparent targeting of an Iranian oil tanker by missiles a "cowardly attack" and said Iran would respond after the facts had been studied.
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Last month, Somali pirates hijacked an oil tanker, the Aris 13, and temporarily detained its Sri Lankan crew, according to The Associated Press, the first hijacking of a large commercial vessel since 2012.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - An Iranian-owned oil tanker was struck by two missiles off Saudi Arabia's coast on Friday, Iranian state television reported, quoting the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) which owns the vessel.
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DUBAI, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Iran's foreign ministry confirmed that an Iranian oil tanker was hit twice in the Red Sea on Wednesday, state TV reported, saying the Iran-owned Sabiti tanker was damaged.
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"The oil tanker named SABITY belonging to the company sustained damages to the body when it was hit by missiles 60 miles (96 kilometers) from the Saudi port city of Jiddah," IRNA said.
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An Iranian oil tanker traveling in the Red Sea experienced a series of explosions early Friday after it was targeted by an unknown assailant in a possible missile strike, according to state media.
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Beijing (CNN)Part of an oil tanker that has been ablaze for days off the coast of Shanghai exploded Wednesday, forcing rescue boats searching for 0003 missing sailors to retreat, Chinese authorities said.
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Riyadh says Iran also has helped the Houthis attack an oil tanker in heavily trafficked Red Sea shipping lanes as well as supplied them with clandestine cash-printing machines upending the Yemeni economy.
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On that same day, however, the solar eclipse, an oil tanker accident with the loss of ten sailors, and the deaths of comedians Dick Gregory and Jerry Lewis dominated the Post front page.
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Iran recently stepped up its terrorizing activities in key international waterways, including when it diverted a British-flagged oil tanker to one of its ports, a move that British authorities said was illegal.
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SHANGHAI — The Chinese and South Korean authorities on Sunday were searching for 32 crew members who went missing after their oil tanker collided with another ship off China's east coast the night before.
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Claims from US officials that five armed Iranian boats had unsuccessfully tried to seize a British oil tanker in the Persian Gulf sent prices even higher, with Brent crude, the international benchmark rising 0.5%.
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Seizure of vessel 'illegal,' Iran says On Thursday the British ambassador to Tehran was summoned in Iran over the "illegal" seizure of the oil tanker, a spokesman for Iran's Foreign Ministry Abbas Mousavi tweeted.
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Oil tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has become the focus for the increasingly tense U.S.-Iranian standoff and the Trump administration has beefed up its military presence in the Gulf since May.
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On July 4, Gibraltar authorities with the help of the British Royal Marines, seized the Grace 1 oil tanker following suspicions it was delivering oil to the Syrian regime — a violation of EU sanctions.
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British Royal Marines seized an oil tanker in Gibraltar on Thursday accused of bringing oil to Syria in violation of EU sanctions, a dramatic step that could escalate confrontation between the West and Iran.
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Britain's seizing of an Iranian oil tanker last week was a threatening act that will not be tolerated, Iran's Defense Minister Amir Hatami said on Monday in a speech broadcast live on state television.
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Iran's acknowledgement that a vessel has been seized by the Revolutionary Guard appears to contradict statements by Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman on Wednesday saying Iran had aided a foreign oil tanker with a malfunction.
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The Khafji Joint Operations, a joint venture between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, said on Sunday its facilities were safe and clear of a spill "which (media) reports said was due to an oil tanker".
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The Minerva Lisa oil tanker, which was due to arrive at Es Sider to load a crude cargo on Thursday, was advised to stay outside the port, a source familiar with the matter said.
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In another incident last week, armed Iranian boats tried unsuccessfully to impede the passage of a British oil tanker in the Persian Gulf, according to two US officials with direct knowledge of the incident.
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In another incident last week, armed Iranian boats tried unsuccessfully to impede the passage of a British oil tanker in the Persian Gulf, according to two US officials with direct knowledge of the incident.
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The Swedish operator of a British-flagged oil tanker seized by Iran in the Gulf last week said it had been able to speak to crew members and all 23 of them were safe.
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In another incident this month, armed Iranian boats tried unsuccessfully to impede the passage of a British oil tanker in the Persian Gulf, according to two US officials with direct knowledge of the incident.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Oman's minister responsible for foreign affairs held talks with Iran's foreign minister on Saturday, Iranian state media reported, as tensions mount in the Gulf after Tehran detained a British-flagged oil tanker.
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An oil tanker and a Norwegian navy frigate collided near the Sture terminal earlier on Thursday, forcing the closure of the Sture terminal, several fields delivering to the terminal and a gas processing plant.
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Britain has denounced Iran's capture of the oil tanker in the Gulf on Friday as a "hostile act", rejecting Tehran's explanation that it seized the vessel because it had been involved in an accident.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Pirates have hijacked an oil tanker with eight Sri Lankan crew on board, Somali authorities said on Tuesday, the first time a commercial ship has been seized in the region since 2012.
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"The response of oil prices to the seizure of a British oil tanker by armed Iranian forces near the Strait of Hormuz has been amazingly muted so far," said Carsten Fritsch, analyst at Commerzbank.
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Iran has called on Britain to release immediately an Iranian oil tanker that was seized by British Royal Marines earlier in July on suspicion it was breaking European sanctions by taking oil to Syria.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The reluctance of foreign banks to deal with Iran could complicate any compensation payments resulting from the collision last week of an Iranian oil tanker and a Chinese cargo ship, sources say.
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OSLO (Reuters) - Frontline's Front Altair oil tanker is still on fire in the Gulf of Oman and has not sunk, a spokesman for the company said on Thursday, citing information from a nearby vessel.
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The last major oil tanker disaster was the sinking of the Prestige off Spain in November 2002, which was carrying 77,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil and caused one of Europe's worst environmental catastrophes.
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LONDON, July 19 (Reuters) - The British operator of an oil tanker seized by armed guards in the Gulf said the vessel, the Stena Impero, was in full compliance with all navigation and international regulations.
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LONDON, July 17 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May will meet with Gibraltar's Chief Minister Fabian Picardo later on Wednesday to discuss the detained Iranian oil tanker Grace 1, a spokesman for May said.
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Sanaa (CNN)At least 13 people were killed and one seriously injured Wednesday when a Saudi airstrike hit a security checkpoint near Yemen's capital, Sanaa, causing an oil tanker to explode, rebel officials said.
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PARIS, July 11 (Reuters) - Tensions in the Gulf are unlikely to spiral out of control, French armed forces chief Francois Lecointre said on Thursday after Britain accused Iran of harassing a British oil tanker.
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Millions across the United States gather for an awe-inspiring solar eclipse, a U.S. warship collided with an oil tanker near Singapore and Uber hiked its Hong Kong fees by up to 80 percent.
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The Iranian video aired on Monday also contains an exchange between the Guards and the same British warship during a stand-off in mid-July involving the British Heritage oil tanker, according to Tasnim.
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Saudi and Emirati state media said on Wednesday that the Saudi-led coalition had foiled attacks in the Red Sea by explosives-laden speedboats deployed by Houthis against commercial vessels, including an oil tanker.
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Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they had captured a British-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf after Britain seized an Iranian vessel earlier this month, ratcheting up tensions along a vital international oil shipping route.
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Tirso Martinez Sanchez testified in December that between 2000 and 2003, he was able to smuggle in 30 to 50 tons of cocaine by welding false compartments into the ends of oil tanker cars.
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DOHA (Reuters) - Unknown assailants attacked an oil tanker on Wednesday in a strategic Red Sea waterway near Yemen in the latest flare-up in an area through which much of the world's oil passes.
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"Britain is interested in releasing Iran's oil tanker Grace 1 ... following the exchange of some documents, we hope the release will take place soon," IRNA news agency cited Eslami as saying, according to Reuters.
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Iran managed to seize a British oil tanker partly because of the tanker's decision to only give the British Royal Navy one hour's notice to escort it, according to Britain's recently-departed Defence Secretary.
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In particular, the AP reports, Iran showed off anti-ship missiles that threaten the US Navy, and Iranian commandos roped onto a ship like the British-flagged oil tanker the country seized in July.
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In 2004, two years after the oil tanker Prestige sank off the coast of Spain, for example, remotely operated underwater vehicles managed to recover 3.5 million gallons of oil trapped in the ships hull.
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The Federal Court of Canada has ordered the seizure of a 721,915-barrel cargo of crude from Kurdistan aboard the "Neverland" oil tanker on the request of the Iraq Oil Ministry, court documents show.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran should seize a British oil tanker if an Iranian tanker detained off Gibraltar earlier this week is not released immediately, a senior Revolutionary Guards commander said in a tweet on Friday.
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Mr. Piukala said that an oil tanker was in the area at the time the cable was severed, and that the company would work with the authorities to determine whether any negligence was involved.
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Thursday's hearing marked the first time that Navy officials publicly responded to Congress since the destroyer John S. McCain collided last month with an oil tanker off the coast of Singapore, killing 10 sailors.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon has not been informed whether an Iranian oil tanker, at the center of a U.S.-Iran confrontation, was heading to one of its ports, the finance minister told Reuters on Friday.
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An Iranian oil tanker that eluded a U.S. attempt to seize its cargo and crew for evading sanctions on Iran's Revolutionary Guard turned off its electronic ship tracking system off the coast of Cyprus.
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DUBAI, March 4 (Reuters) - The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said it had foiled an attack on an oil tanker off the country's coast, the Saudi state news agency SPA reported on Wednesday.
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Taiwan: At least a dozen people were wounded and some were missing after a bridge in a fishing village collapsed, sending an oil tanker truck that was crossing it crashing onto the boats below.
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Ten U.S. Navy sailors are still being sought after a U.S.-guided-missile destroyer, the John S. McCain, above, collided with an oil tanker in the Strait of Malacca, off the coast of Singapore.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Thirteen Chinese fishermen died after their boat collided with a Hong Kong oil tanker in international waters off Japan, state media Xinhua reported on Friday, citing sources at China's consulate in Osaka.
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Iranian media and officials reported that a state-owned oil tanker was hit by two missiles in the Red Sea near Saudi Arabia, raising the prospect of supply disruptions from a crucial producing region.
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A good portion of their gains came after the United States announced on Friday it was deploying more troops to Saudi Arabia, and after an Iranian oil tanker was attacked in the Red Sea.
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A good portion of their gains came after the United States announced on Friday it was deploying more troops to Saudi Arabia, and after an Iranian oil tanker was attacked in the Red Sea.
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The recent attacks, including the hijacking of an oil tanker in March, are believed to have been carried out by buccaneers from central Somalia or from Puntland, a semiautonomous region in the country's northeast.
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When it came to this week's oil tanker explosions, Mr. Trump at first left it to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to point the finger at Iran and he followed up a day later.
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DUBAI, July 4 (Reuters) - Iran summoned the British ambassador in Tehran over the "illegal seizure" of an Iranian oil tanker in Gibraltar on Thursday, Iranian state TV quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi as saying.
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Oil-related stocks around Asia posted big gains after a reported explosion damaged an Iranian oil tanker in the Red Sea, stoking fears about increased tensions in the region and potential disruption to oil supply.
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Iran's foreign ministry said a U.S. attempt to seize the oil tanker would have "heavy consequences" and a senior Iranian lawmaker said the crisis with Britain would only end after the vessel reached its destination.
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Global commodity trading has been rocked in recent months after a series of attacks on international merchant vessels, which the United States has blamed on Iran, and an Iranian seizure of a British oil tanker.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said reports of attacks on two oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman were very worrying and threatened to lead to an escalation of tensions in the region.
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REPORT: TWO NAVY SEALS EYED IN STRANGULATION OF GREEN BERET IN MALI In late August, another guided-missile destroyer, USS John S. McCain, collided with a merchant vessel, this time an oil tanker near Singapore.
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Iran's capture of a British oil tanker last week sparked worries about supply disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz, through which about a fifth of the world's oil flows, prompting crude to rally on Monday.
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Also just this week, Iran said it seized a foreign vessel for smuggling fuel and released video of a United Arab Emirates-based oil tanker that had gone missing in Iranian waters over the weekend.
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Cover: A speedboat of the Iran's Revolutionary Guard moves around a British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero, which was seized Friday by the Guard, in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas, Sunday, July 21, 2019.
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Iran on Monday said it will no longer tolerate "maritime offenses" in the Strait of Hormuz, a day after it seized a second oil tanker near the strategic waterway that it accused of smuggling fuel.
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On July 19, the Montrose warned an Iranian patrol boat against interfering with the Stena Impero, but the Iranian vessel, apparently undeterred, proceeded to instruct the oil tanker to alter course and later seized it.
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Paddy Rodgers, chief executive of oil tanker company Euronav, which has a commercial tie-up with Frontline, ruled out a counter bid for DHT and saw a successful acquisition by Fredriksen as a positive step.
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A second oil tanker, the British-operated, Liberian-flagged Mesdar, turned sharply north toward Iran's coast on Friday afternoon after passing westward through the Strait of Hormuz into the Gulf, according to Refinitiv tracking data.
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Iran has called on Britain to immediately release its oil tanker, which was detained by British Royal Marines on the suspicion that it was breaking European sanctions by taking oil to Tehran's close ally Syria.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A British warship radioed an Iranian patrol boat to warn against interfering with the Stena Impero as the oil tanker passed through the Strait of Hormuz, according to a recording obtained by Reuters.
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Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Friday captured a British-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz after Britain seized an Iranian vessel earlier this month, further raising tensions along a vital international oil shipping route.
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LONDON, Aug 13 (Reuters) - A highly placed Gibraltarian government source denied on Tuesday an Iranian news agency report which said the Iranian oil tanker Grace 1 would be leaving the British overseas territory on Tuesday.
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When three Iranian gunboats attempted to seize a British oil tanker on Wednesday, a Royal Navy frigate intervened, reportedly taking aim at Iranian vessels with the "perfect weapon" while warning their crews to stand down.
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British Royal Marines seized the Iranian oil tanker on July 4 off the coast of the British Mediterranean territory of Gibraltar on suspicion of violating EU sanctions by taking oil to Syria, which Tehran denies.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The Iranian ambassador in London accused the United States of desperately trying to stop the authorities in Gibraltar from releasing the Grace 1 Iranian oil tanker, saying the American effort had been defeated.
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They spent five days crossing the South China Sea by boat with more than 150 others, were rescued by a British oil tanker and then lived in a refugee camp in Malaysia for three months.
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Iranian authorities say that the UK might free the Tehran-flagged tanker it captured in July, suggesting that Britain could be coming around to the idea of an oil tanker swap that it previously rejected.
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Britain has denounced Iran's seizure of the oil tanker in the Gulf on Friday as a "hostile act", rejecting Tehran's explanation that it had seized the vessel because it had been involved in an accident.
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RIYADH, June 15 (Reuters) - Crew members of Frontline's oil tanker Front Altair, one of two vessels attacked this week in the Gulf of Oman, have landed in Dubai, the Norwegian ship's operator said on Saturday.
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OSLO (Reuters) - An oil tanker owned by Norway's Frontline has been struck by a torpedo off the coast of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates, shipping newspaper Tradewinds reported on Thursday, citing unnamed industry sources.
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HONG KONG — An Iranian oil tanker that collided with another vessel in the East China Sea and that had been burning for more than a week sank on Sunday, the Chinese Ministry of Transportation said.
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OSLO (Reuters) - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Friday an Iranian oil tanker, now in waters south of Turkey and at the center of a confrontation between Washington and Tehran, was headed for Lebanon.
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Supporting prices was an Iranian military official's comments that Britain's seizure last week of an Iranian oil tanker off the coast of Gibraltar will not be "unanswered," according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency.
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Divers have found remains of missing American sailors in the flooded compartments of the Navy destroyer John S. McCain, which collided with an oil tanker on Monday off the coast of Singapore, Admiral Swift said.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Pirates have kidnapped 19 crew members from a crude oil tanker off Nigeria in an area where acts of piracy are on the rise, an official with the ship's operator said on Thursday.
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The couple had met in 2001 at a dinner party, but they are said to have fallen in love in November 2002, when she was covering the Prestige oil tanker spill, Spain's largest environmental disaster.
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And details have emerged about the 26 sailors lost after the destroyer John S. McCain and an oil tanker collided off the coast of Singapore, the second collision of a Navy destroyer in two months.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran said it will change the route of its Sabiti oil tanker after the vessel was attacked by two missiles in the Red Sea near Saudi Arabia, Iran's Students News Agency ISNA reported.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's foreign ministry on Friday said it was too early to assign blame for an explosion on an Iranian oil tanker in the Red Sea near Saudi Arabia, the RIA news agency reported.
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DUBAI, Oct 12 (Reuters) - An Iranian government spokesman on Saturday called the apparent targeting of an Iranian oil tanker by missiles a "cowardly attack" and said Iran would respond after the facts had been studied.
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Oil prices climbed after Iranian media said a state-owned oil tanker had been struck by missiles in the Red Sea near Saudi Arabia, but bearish oil demand forecasts soon pulled crude off session highs.
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Last year, when Iran seized a British-flagged oil tanker in the Persian Gulf, his predecessor, Theresa May, tried to muster a European-led naval force to protect ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Pirates have kidnapped 19 crew members from a crude oil tanker off Nigeria in an area where acts of piracy are on the rise, an official with the ship's operator said on Thursday.
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RIYADH (Reuters) - The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said on Wednesday it had thwarted an attack on a Saudi oil tanker over the weekend by Houthi fighters near the Red Sea port of Hodeidah.
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"Until the Iranian oil tanker arrives at its destination the British must help end the crisis," Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh, of parliament's national security and foreign affairs committee, was quoted as saying by semi-official ISNA news agency.
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Last month, Iran's Revolutionary Guards seized a British tanker, Stena Impero, near the Strait of Hormuz for alleged marine violations after Britain seized an Iranian oil tanker near Gibraltar, accusing it of violating sanctions on Syria.
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani warned earlier Wednesday that the UK "will see the consequences" after Gibraltar officials and UK Royal Marines seized an Iranian oil tanker bound for Syria last week, according to Rouhani's press office.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Britain's seizing of an Iranian oil tanker last week was a threatening act that will not be tolerated, Iran's Defence Minister Amir Hatami said on Monday in a speech broadcast live on state television.
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But Iran's response to the oil tanker incident in the Gulf of Oman -- tough rhetoric and the slow rollback of limitations on enrichment of uranium under the nuclear deal -- shows it isn't prepared to back down.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran has warned the United States against any new attempt to seize an Iranian oil tanker in open seas after it left Gibraltar, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on state television on Monday.
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An Iranian oil tanker carrying over 1 million barrels of fuel oil suffered a malfunction in the Red Sea off the coast of Saudi Arabia, authorities said Thursday, raising concerns that the vessel could be leaking.
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Varvitsiotis added that Greece did not have a port capable of docking such a large oil tanker but remained evasive on what, if any, action would be taken if the ship dropped anchor in Greek waters.
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Hong Kong (CNN Business)Global markets broadly pulled higher on Friday, led by Hong Kong, as optimism grew about US-China trade talks and reports of damage to an Iranian oil tanker sent energy stocks spiking.
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Nigerian navy recovers hijacked oil tanker after gun battle In the first three months of this year, Nigeria has seen 226 incidents compared to 6 and 7 attacks in the corresponding periods of 2014 and 2015.
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Alito recused himself from a 1203 case in which the court cut the punitive damages imposed against Exxon Mobil for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil tanker spill off Alaska from $2.5 billion to about $500 million.
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DUBAI, June 13 (Reuters) - State-run Kuwait Oil Tanker Company (KOTC) said on Thursday its vessels were operating as normal after suspected tanker attacks in the Gulf of Oman, state news agency KUNA reported on Thursday.
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Tensions spiked between Iran and the West after Iranian commandos seized a British-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf this month in apparent retaliation for the capture of an Iranian tanker by British forces near Gibraltar.
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It has been almost two decades since Khan managed to convert a first donated oil tanker into a full-fledged floating hospital, but she recalls how almost everyone around her initially thought the idea would fail.
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Just miles away, Venezuelan soldiers stood shoulder to shoulder on the never-opened Tienditas bridge in Cucuta, where Maduro's blockade of shipping containers and a grounded oil tanker blocked the passage of aid into his country.
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On Friday, members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard rappelled down from helicopters to seize a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for the UK capture of an Iranian vessel two weeks prior.
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Gunmen hijacked the small oil tanker Aris 13 on Monday and are demanding a ransom to release the ship and its eight Sri Lankan crew, said the EU Naval Force that patrols the waters off Somalia.
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Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Friday captured a British-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz after Britain seized an Iranian vessel earlier this month, further raising tensions along a vital international route for oil shipments.
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They monitored developments on three giant screens, including one showing the location of a collision between an oil tanker, which supposedly caught fire, and a passenger ship that sank and scattered people in the high seas.
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For more on the company, double click on The Oslo-listed oil tanker firm reported below-forecast earnings for the second quarter and a lower dividend than had been anticipated in a Reuters poll of analysts.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France's foreign ministry said on Saturday it was very concerned by the seizure of a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, saying such an action harmed de-escalation efforts in the region.
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Iranian navy vessels came to the assistance of a disabled foreign oil tanker in the Gulf that needed repairs, Iran's foreign ministry spokesman was quoted as saying on Tuesday by the semi-official news agency ISNA.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May thanked Gibraltar's Chief Minister for upholding European Union sanctions against Syria by detaining an oil tanker, her office said on Wednesday, adding its independent legal process should be respected.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain told Iran on Monday that if it wants to "come out of the dark" it must follow international rules and release a British-flagged oil tanker seized by its forces in the Gulf.
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Last month, Iran's Revolutionary Guards seized the British tanker, Stena Impero near the Strait for alleged marine violations, two weeks after Britain seized an Iranian oil tanker near Gibraltar, accusing it of violating sanctions on Syria.
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GIBRALTAR (Reuters) - The United States has issued a warrant to seize an Iranian oil tanker caught in the standoff between Tehran and the West in a last ditch effort to prevent the vessel from leaving Gibraltar.
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Though the UAE decision was taken before the oil tanker explosions in the Gulf in May, three sources familiar with the decision said that mounting tensions with Iran over a longer period were also a factor.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt told his Iranian counterpart on Saturday that Britain would facilitate the release of the detained Grace 1 oil tanker if Tehran gave guarantees it would not go to Syria.
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OSLO, June 13 (Reuters) - Frontline's Front Altair oil tanker is still on fire in the Gulf of Oman and has not sunk, a spokesman for the company said on Thursday, citing information from a nearby vessel.
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BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - An oil tanker docked at the east Libyan port of Es Sider on Monday to load the first cargo of crude since the terminal reopened following a two-year closure, port officials said.
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In China, the KPF team intended for the softened triangular building to evoke the prow of an oil tanker, but critics quickly likened it to a tankless toilet, which Kohler was then marketing in the country.
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"I am openly saying that Britain should be scared of Iran's retaliatory measures over the illegal seizure of the Iranian oil tanker," said Mohammad Ali Mousavi Jazayeri, a member of the Assembly of Experts clerical body.
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BEIRUT, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Lebanon has not been informed whether an Iranian oil tanker, at the centre of a U.S.-Iran confrontation, was heading to one of its ports, the finance minister told Reuters on Friday.
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Scott H. Swift, above, confirmed that divers found the remains of missing American sailors in the flooded compartments of the Navy destroyer John S. McCain, which collided with an oil tanker off the coast of Singapore.
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KUALA LUMPUR/SINGAPORE, Dec 013 (Reuters) - A Vietnamese oil tanker which Reuters reported visited North Korea in February has been seized by Malaysia after it was found adrift off the Malaysian coast, maritime agency officials said.
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The eastern German refineries Schwedt and Leuna were receiving alternative oil tanker shipments via the Baltic Sea ports of Rostock and Gdansk, but the volumes were lower than those normally arriving via Druzhba, a spokesman said.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — An Iranian oil tanker caught in the escalating feud between Iran, the United States and other Western nations has anchored off the coast of Syria, according to images released by a space technology company.
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The guided-missile destroyer and the Alnic MC oil tanker collided about 4.5 nautical miles (8.3 kilometers) from Malaysia's coast at the start of a designated sea lane for ships sailing into the busy Singapore Strait.
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Iranian forces could bomb an American oil tanker traveling through the Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway for the global energy trade aggressively patrolled by Tehran's forces, causing loss of life or a catastrophic oil spill.
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"Chevron and Exxon Mobil were two of the session's better performers, as the markets continue to digest news of oil tanker blasts in the Gulf of Oman," said Connor Campbell, financial analyst at Spreadex in London.
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The detainee, Ahmed Muhammed Haza al-Darbi, agreed in February 2014 to plead guilty to terrorism-related offenses involving a 2002 attack by Al Qaeda on a French-flagged oil tanker off the coast of Yemen.
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BERLIN, June 13 (Reuters) - German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said reports of attacks on two oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman were very worrying and threatened to lead to an escalation of tensions in the region.
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The decision to raise the threat level to 3, or "critical," was made on Tuesday, according to UK media reports, one day before Iranian ships attempted to seize a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz.
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Since its deployment this summer, the Comfort, a vessel transformed from a hulking oil tanker into a 1,000-bed hospital ship, has treated more than 20183,000 people along its stops in various Central and South American nations.
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One of them, "Nanashi Maru" (Japanese for "The Nameless"), pays homage to the boats capsized during the 2011 tsunami; another, labeled the "MV Sirius Star II," refers to an oil tanker seized by Somalian pirates in 2008.
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Since its deployment this summer, the Comfort, a vessel transformed from a hulking oil tanker into a 1,000-bed hospital ship, has treated more than 20,000 people along its stops in various Central and South American nations.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran said on Friday it had dispatched experts to one oil tanker from which it rescued crew members from a fire caused by an attack to see whether they could now return to the vessel.
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Iran will no longer tolerate "maritime offences" in the Strait of Hormuz, its foreign minister said on Monday, a day after it seized a second oil tanker near the strategic waterway that it accused of smuggling fuel.
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In a statement on Thursday evening, the Iranian mission to the United Nations said Tehran "categorically rejects the U.S. unfounded claim with regard to 13 June oil tanker incidents and condemns it in the strongest possible terms."
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In a statement on Thursday evening, the Iranian mission to the United Nations said Tehran "categorically rejects the U.S. unfounded claim with regard to 13 June oil tanker incidents and condemns it in the strongest possible terms".
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OSLO, June 13 (Reuters) - An oil tanker owned by Norway's Frontline has been struck by a torpedo off the coast of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates, shipping newspaper Tradewinds reported on Thursday, citing unnamed industry sources.
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Tensions have spiked between Iran and the West after Iranian commandos seized a British-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf this month in apparent retaliation for the seizure of an Iranian tanker by British forces near Gibraltar.
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Tensions have spiked between Iran and the West after Iranian commandos seized a British-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf this month in apparent retaliation for the capture of an Iranian tanker by British forces near Gibraltar.
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PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Panama's Maritime Authority said on Thursday that Grace 1, a giant Iranian oil tanker seized by British Royal Marines in Gibraltar, was no longer listed in Panama's international boat registry as of May 29.
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A flurry of oil tanker attacks in the world's busiest transit lane for seaborne oil shipments has triggered grave concerns about maritime security, with President Donald Trump suggesting the U.S. could stop providing protection to other ships.
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Iran's seizure of an Iraqi oil tanker raised some concerns about potential Middle East supply disruptions in the Gulf, with Iranian state media reporting on Sunday that its Iranian Revolutionary Guards seized the ship for smuggling fuel.
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The surprising disclosures came hours after Iran's supreme leader upped the ante in the brewing confrontation by warning Tehran would continue removing restraints on its nuclear activity and retaliate for the seizure of an Iranian oil tanker.
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Iran's seizure of an Iraqi oil tanker raised some concerns about potential Middle East supply disruptions in the Gulf, with Iranian state media reporting on Sunday its Iranian Revolutionary Guards had seized the ship for smuggling fuel.
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Crude was buoyant after Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Friday captured a British-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf after Britain seized an Iranian vessel earlier this month, further raising tensions along a vital international oil shipping route.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - A British-flagged oil tanker detained by Iran was not carrying any cargo, the head of the Ports and Maritime Organization in Iran's southern Hormozgan province said on Saturday, according to the ISNA news agency.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - All 23 crew on a British oil tanker seized last week by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz are safe and well, the vessel's Swedish operator Stena Bulk said on Wednesday after speaking to them.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A sunken Iranian oil tanker may be leaking heavy bunker fuel as well as light oil off the east coast of China and the best remedy was to recover the vessel, officials said on Friday.
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Foreign oil tanker owners are expected to make a slow return to Iran despite the lifting of many sanctions as insurers tread carefully, leaving shipping players unwilling to pick up cargoes as quickly as Tehran has wanted.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A second oil tanker, the British-operated, Liberian-flagged Mesdar, turned sharply north towards Iran's coast on Friday afternoon after passing westward through the Strait of Hormuz into the Gulf, according to Refinitiv tracking data.
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LONDON, July 21 (Reuters) - A British warship radioed an Iranian patrol boat to warn against interfering with the Stena Impero as the oil tanker passed through the Strait of Hormuz, according to a recording obtained by Reuters.
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Think of the climate as an oil tanker headed for the shoreline: it may take eight ship lengths to stop, so measuring progress after only the first ship length and calling that a failure is quite misleading.
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The oil tanker Grace 1, the oil it carries and $995,000 are subject to forfeiture based on a complaint by the U.S. government, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jessie Liu said in a news release.
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LONDON, Aug 15 (Reuters) - The Iranian ambassador in London accused the United States of desperately trying to stop the authorities in Gibraltar from releasing the Grace 1 Iranian oil tanker, saying the American effort had been defeated.
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The initial impounding of the Grace 1 kicked off a sequence of events that saw Tehran seize a British-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf two weeks later, heightening tension on a vital international oil shipping route.
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Salvatore Girone, who has been living in the Italian embassy in New Delhi, was one of two marines arrested in 2012 on suspicion of killing the fishermen during an anti-piracy mission on an Italian oil tanker.
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The oil tanker attack in the gulf of Oman has raised geopolitical tensions across the Middle East because the recent frequency of attacks in the region has made the current attack an added fuel to the fire.
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Iran "categorically rejects the U.S. unfounded claim with regard to 13 June oil tanker incidents and condemns it in the strongest possible terms," the Iranian mission to the United Nations said in a statement on Thursday evening.
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A Saudi oil tanker in the Red Sea was hit in a Houthi attack off Yemen's main port city of Hodeidah, Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya television reported on Tuesday, citing a statement from the Saudi-led coalition.
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However, questions likely will grow in Europe over Iran's intentions as satellite photos obtained by The Associated Press on Saturday showed an once-detained oil tanker Tehran reportedly promised wouldn't go to Syria was off its coast.
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DUBAI, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Iran's foreign ministry spokesman on Sunday said an Iranian oil tanker at the center of a dispute between Tehran and Western powers had reached its destination and sold its oil, state television reported.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Three people were missing and two injured on Tuesday after a blast on an oil tanker caused a fire while it was pumping oil in the southern Russian port of Makhachkala, Russia's Transport Ministry said.
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Mr. Nashiri was facing the death penalty over charges he helped plot the Cole attack, which killed 17 sailors, as well as an attack on a French-flagged oil tanker in 2002 that killed a Bulgarian man.
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OSLO, Sept 13 (Reuters) - A fire has broken out in the engine room of an oil tanker during loading at Equinor's Sture oil terminal on Norway's west coast, local police and the oil firm said on Friday.
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OSLO, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Friday an Iranian oil tanker, now in waters south of Turkey and at the centre of a confrontation between Washington and Tehran, was headed for Lebanon.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - An Iranian oil tanker at the center of a dispute between Washington and Tehran is no longer heading towards Turkey's Iskenderun port and now has no specified destination, Refinitiv ship tracking data showed on Saturday.
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There should also be an audio recording from the bridge of the destroyer, like the harrowing tape of a 2012 collision between a different destroyer, the Porter, and an oil tanker, in which no one was injured.
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At the site where Sergeants Gutierrez and Rodriguez were killed, The Times identified at least 43 bullet holes on the concrete wall behind the Americans, and eight more on a taller empty oil tanker behind the wall.
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Iran released a British oil tanker and its crew on Friday 2 months after it was first detained near the Strait of Hormuz and weeks after Iran's own tanker was released from Gibraltar, reports the Washington Post.
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DUBAI, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Iran said it will change the route of its Sabiti oil tanker after the vessel was attacked by two missiles in the Red Sea near Saudi Arabia, Iran's Students News Agency ISNA reported.
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MOSCOW, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Russia's foreign ministry on Friday said it was too early to assign blame for an explosion on an Iranian oil tanker in the Red Sea near Saudi Arabia, the RIA news agency reported.
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A stricken Iranian oil tanker drifted into Japan's exclusive economic zone (EEZ) on Wednesday afternoon, a spokesman for Japan's Coast Guard told Reuters on Friday, as strong winds pushed the burning ship away from the Chinese coast.
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He was removed "due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command" after the USS John S. McCain collided with a chemical and oil tanker off Singapore Monday, leaving 10 American sailors missing or dead.
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LNG tankers are not only among the most expensive merchant vessels to hire, but keeping the fuel super-chilled is energy intensive and costly, much more expensive than putting crude on an oil tanker for later sale.
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We're covering the Democratic split over impeachment, a deadly fire in Japan, and an expected heat wave in the U.S. Developing Iran seized a foreign oil tanker in the Persian Gulf, the country's state news media reported.
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We're covering the Democratic split over impeachment, a deadly fire in Japan, and an expected heat wave in the U.S. Developing Iran seized a foreign oil tanker in the Persian Gulf, the country's state news media reported.
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OSLO, June 13 (Reuters) - The Norwegian shipping firm Frontline confirmed on Thursday that its oil tanker Front Altair was on fire after an incident in the Gulf of Oman, Norwegian newspaper VG reported, quoting a company spokesman.
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LONDON, Jan 8 (Reuters) - The body of one crew member has been found aboard an Iranian oil tanker that is still ablaze after colliding with a grain ship off China's east coast, an Iranian official said on Monday.
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DUBAI, July 5 (Reuters) - A senior commander in Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards warned on Friday that it would be Tehran's "duty" to seize a British oil tanker if an Iranian tanker detained in Gibraltar was not immediately released.
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Shipping data in Thomson Reuters Eikon shows the oil tanker United Dynamic, carrying one million barrels of Azeri crude, is currently off the coast of southern India and expected to unload its cargo at Kyauk Phyu this week.
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Vessels from several nations are searching Southeast Asian waters for 10 missing U.S. sailors after an early morning collision Monday between the USS John S. McCain and an oil tanker ripped a gaping hole in the destroyer's hull.
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DUBAI, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Iran has warned the United States against any new attempt to seize an Iranian oil tanker in open seas after it left Gibraltar, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on state television on Monday.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - At least 12 Pakistani workers were killed and more than 50 injured on Tuesday after a huge blast ripped through an oil tanker at a ship-breaking yard, trapping others inside the vessel, local officials said.
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NAIROBI, March 15 (Reuters) - Armed pirates off the coast of Somalia who hijacked an oil tanker with eight Sri Lankan crew on board are demanding a ransom for the release of the vessel, the EU Naval Force said.
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PARIS, July 20 (Reuters) - France's foreign ministry said on Saturday it was very concerned by the seizure of a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, saying such an action harmed de-escalation efforts in the region.
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SINGAPORE, Oct 25 (Reuters) - A crude oil tanker owned by Russian state-owned shipping company Sovcomflot has completed its first voyage across the Baltic and North Seas operating on liquefied natural gas (LNG), the company said on Wednesday.
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BEIJING, Jan 14 (Reuters) - A stricken Iranian oil tanker that had drifted into Japan's exclusive economic zone "suddenly ignited" at noon (0400 GMT), and was in danger of capsizing "at any time", Chinese state television said on Sunday.
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Abu Dhabi, UAE (CNN)Iran has seized an oil tanker it claimed was carrying 1 million liters of "smuggled fuel," state news agency Press TV said on Thursday, before later releasing a video purporting to show the tanker.
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Iranian commandos seized the British-flagged tanker in the world's most important waterway for oil shipments on July 19, two weeks after British forces captured an Iranian oil tanker near Gibraltar, accusing it of violating sanctions on Syria.
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The full restart of Libya's largest oil field also pressured prices, which had rallied a day earlier on concerns of supply disruptions in the heavily trafficked Strait of Hormuz following Iran's weekend capture of a British oil tanker.
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In the Middle East, Iranian Revolutionary Guards seized an Iraqi oil tanker in the Gulf, which they said was smuggling fuel, Iran's state media reported on Sunday, in a show of power amid heightened tensions with the West.
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LONDON (Reuters) - An escalation of tensions between Western states and Iran is not in anybody's interest, British Prime Minister Theresa May's spokesman said on Tuesday following threats of retaliation from Iran over the seizure of an oil tanker.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Shippers trying to minimize time in the Middle East after oil tanker attacks pushed up insurance costs are scaling back purchases of marine fuels from the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) Fujairah oil hub, trade sources said.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian navy vessels came to the assistance of a disabled foreign oil tanker in the Gulf that needed repairs, Iran's foreign ministry spokesman was quoted as saying on Tuesday by the semi-official news agency ISNA.
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BENGHAZI, Libya Sept 21 (Reuters) - An oil tanker left the Libyan port of Ras Lanuf for Italy early on Wednesday with the first crude export cargo from the terminal since at least late 2014, the port manager said.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States called on Houthis on Wednesday to stop escalating the conflict in Yemen and demonstrate a commitment to dialogue, a day after an attack on a Saudi oil tanker by the Iran-allied group.
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Washington (CNN)The US Navy has suspended its search-and-rescue operations for the sailors who remain missing after the collision between the US destroyer John S. McCain and an oil tanker near Singapore, the Navy announced Thursday.
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OSLO, June 26 (Reuters) - Oslo-listed oil tanker firm Frontline is no longer pursuing an acquisition of New York-listed competitor DHT Holdings and is not working on any other acquisitions either, Frontline's CEO told Reuters on Monday.
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Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces ordered a British oil tanker to alter its route in the Strait of Hormuz and tried to force it near Iranian-controlled waters, according to CNN, who first reported on the incident.
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During a standoff involving a Royal Navy frigate, an oil tanker, and three Iranian gunboats on Wednesday, the British warship HMS Montrose trained its deck guns on the Iranian vessels, CNN first reported, citing US and UK officials.
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DUBAI, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Kuwait Oil Tanker Co. (KOTC) has ordered three giant liquefied petroleum gas tankers (LPG) from Hyundai Heavy Industries at a cost of $213.3 million, the state-run Kuwait New Agency (KUNA) reported on Sunday.
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A railroad operator is settling with the government for $2.2 million in penalties over the 2015 derailment of an oil tanker in a small West Virginia town that spilled thousands of gallons of oil and burst into flames.
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The incident is the latest in the region to spill into the oil market after the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen attacked a Saudi oil tanker last week, one in a series of recent attacks on Saudi Arabia.
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Crude rose on Friday after Iranian state media said the Iran Revolutionary Guard had captured a British-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz in what was viewed by traders as the latest escalation in the region.
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Geopolitical tensions in the Middle East are also in focus after British Royal Marines seized a large Iranian oil tanker on Thursday for trying to take oil to Syria in violation of EU sanctions, evoking fury in Tehran.
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BOSASSO (Reuters) - Somali officials whose forces freed a hijacked oil tanker and its eight Sri Lankan crew said on Sunday that NATO ships must do more to prevent the illegal fishing that locals say sparked the latest attack.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has instructed an Indian-flagged oil tanker not to discharge its cargo of oil from Libya's rival eastern government and await instructions from the United Nations, a senior Indian government official said on Thursday.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - A stricken Iranian oil tanker continued exploding on Friday, hampering rescue efforts, Chinese state media reported, as Japan's Coast Guard said the ship drifted away from the Chinese coast and into Japan's exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
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"I am openly saying that Britain should be scared of Iran's retaliatory measures over the illegal seizure of the Iranian oil tanker," said the cleric, who is a member of the powerful clerical body, the Assembly of Experts.
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U.S. officials say they are unsure whether an oil tanker towed into Iranian waters was seized by Iran or rescued after facing mechanical faults as Tehran asserts, sowing confusion at a time of high tension in the Gulf.
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Rome maintains the immunity of both the marines to prosecution since they were serving on a U.N.-backed anti-piracy mission and the oil tanker they were escorting was in international waters when it fired on the fishermen.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Britain's seizure of an Iranian oil tanker off Gibraltar last week will not be "unanswered", Iran's armed forces chief of staff, Major General Mohammad Bagheri, said on Tuesday, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency.
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LONDON, June 13 (Reuters) - Oil tanker owners DHT Holdings and Heidmar have suspended new bookings to the Mid-East Gulf, three ship brokers said, following suspected attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday.
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Zarif also said Britain should quickly release the Grace 1 oil tanker, which was seized last week by British Royal Marines off the coast of the British Mediterranean territory of Gibraltar on suspicion of violating sanctions against Syria.
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Orcas face other threats directly related to the pipeline: collisions with vessels (oil tanker ships are expected to increase sevenfold with the pipeline expansion), a reduced ability to echolocate because of vessel noise, and contamination from oil spills.
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"I am openly saying that Britain should be scared of Iran's retaliatory measures over the illegal seizure of the Iranian oil tanker," said Mohammad Ali Mousavi Jazayeri, a member of the powerful clerical body the Assembly of Experts.
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So, for example, implied Iranian threats against oil tanker traffic in the Persian Gulf — whether or not Iran was behind the attacks on tankers there — would mostly harm the Asian and European economies that rely on those shipments.
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Oil tanker Front Altair was carrying 75,000 tonnes of naphtha, a petrochemical feedstock, when it was "suspected of being hit by a torpedo" around noon Taiwan time (0400GMT), Wu I-Fang, CPC's petrochemical business division CEO, told Reuters.
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In the last month, the American-led air campaign has carried out nearly 300 airstrikes around Raqqa, including attacks last week that destroyed 188 oil tanker trucks, the largest strikes of their kind in the two-year effort.
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OSLO, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Oil tanker firm Frontline warned on Thursday that the coronavirus outbreak will hurt its results in the near term, even as the group reported sharp gains in earnings for the final quarter of 2019.
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Iranian forces also seized a British oil tanker in response to the seizure of an Iranian tanker in Gibraltar, which the U.S. and U.K. argued was bound for sanctioned Syrian forces under the control of Bashar al-Assad.
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DUBAI, Oct 11 (Reuters) - An explosion has set an Iranian oil tanker on fire near the Saudi port city of Jeddah, Iran's Students News Agency ISNA reported on Friday, adding that experts believed it was a "terrorist attack".
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Navy and Marine Corps divers on Tuesday located the remains of some of the 10 sailors missing from the USS John S. McCain following its collision with an oil tanker off the Malaysia coast, the Navy said Tuesday.
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The top U.S. military commander in the Pacific region is warning America's enemies not to "test" its military readiness after a collision between the USS John S. McCain and an oil tanker off the coast of Japan. Adm.
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Oil tanker Front Altair was carrying 75,000 tonnes of naphtha, a petrochemical feedstock, when it was "suspected of being hit by a torpedo" around noon Taiwan time (0400GMT), Wu I-Fang, CEO of CPC's petrochemical division, told Reuters.
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The solution would be a shipping futures contract which would allow a company to lock in a price for a future charter without taking a physical vessel – something that was developed for the oil tanker market in the 2000s.
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The Aris 13, a Comoros-flagged oil tanker belonging to a Greek company, disappeared off the coast of the east African nation on Monday, according to a spokesman for the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO), based in Dubai.
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PANAMA CITY, July 4 (Reuters) - Panama's Maritime Authority said on Thursday that Grace 1, a giant Iranian oil tanker seized by British Royal Marines in Gibraltar, was no longer listed in Panama's international boat registry as of May 29.
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"Until the Iranian oil tanker arrives at its destination the British must help end the crisis," Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh, a member of parliament's national security and foreign affairs committee, was quoted as saying by the semi-official ISNA news agency.
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The solution would be a shipping futures contract which would allow a company to lock in a price for a future charter without taking a physical vessel something that was developed for the oil tanker market in the 2000s.
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Five nights after they were huddled onto the boat, and after running out of food and water, they were rescued by a British oil tanker, which took them to Malaysia where they spent three months in a refugee camp.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will aggressively enforce its sanctions to prevent the private sector from assisting an Iranian oil tanker that is traveling through the Mediterranean and that Washington wants seized, a State Department official said on Thursday.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - A Saudi-led military coalition foiled attacks by explosives-laden speedboats deployed by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi movement against commercial vessels, including an oil tanker, in the Red Sea, Saudi and Emirati state media said on Wednesday.
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But, now, with Iran claiming it seized a foreign oil tanker in the hotly contested Gulf of Oman, oil prices haven't responded as commodity watchers may have expected, and Croft says that's a sign of more pain to come.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - An oil tanker caught fire in Hong Kong's southern waters on Tuesday, killing one crew member while at least 63 were rescued, police said, with witnesses reporting a loud blast that shook windows several kilometers away.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Foreign oil tanker owners are expected to make a slow return to Iran despite the lifting of many sanctions as insurers tread carefully, leaving shipping players unwilling to pick up cargoes as quickly as Tehran has wanted.
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BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - An oil tanker left the Libyan port of Ras Lanuf for Italy early on Wednesday with the first crude export cargo from the terminal since at least late 2014, boosting hopes of reviving Libya's oil output.
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LONDON, July 13 (Reuters) - Britain's foreign minister said he had told his Iranian counterpart on Saturday that Britain would facilitate the release of the detained Grace 1 oil tanker if there were guarantees it would not go to Syria.
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LONDON, July 19 (Reuters) - A second oil tanker, the British-operated, Liberian-flagged Mesdar, turned sharply north towards Iran's coast on Friday afternoon after passing westward through the Strait of Hormuz into the Gulf, according to Refinitiv tracking data.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is aware of reports that Iran seized a British oil tanker and it will work with its allies and partners to defend against Iran, a White House National Security Council spokesman said on Friday.
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GENEVA/LONDON (Reuters) - Britain on Saturday denounced Iran's seizure of a British-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf as a "hostile act" and rejected Tehran's explanation that it seized the vessel because it had been involved in an accident.
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Iran's supreme leader on Tuesday said Tehran would keep removing restraints on its nuclear activity in the deal - struck with Britain, China, France, Germany Russia and the United States - and retaliate for the seizure of an Iranian oil tanker.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Gibraltar was granted the power on Friday to detain Iran's Grace 1 oil tanker for another month, keeping the vessel at the center of a big-power quarrel between Iran and the United States and its allies.
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DUBAI, June 14 (Reuters) - Iran said on Friday it had dispatched experts to one oil tanker from which it rescued crew members from a fire caused by an attack to see whether they could now return to the vessel.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - An oil tanker which was first reported to have been hijacked and sailed into Indonesian waters, was likely taken over by its own crew due to a dispute with their employer, Malaysian authorities said on Wednesday.
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DUBAI/LONDON (Reuters) - The British territory of Gibraltar will not yet release an Iranian oil tanker seized by Royal Marines in the Mediterranean despite an Iranian report that it could do so on Tuesday, an official Gibraltar source said.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - The owner of an Iranian oil tanker that was seized off Gibraltar says the ship will head to Mediterranean ports, an Iranian maritime official was quoted as saying on Thursday, after Gibraltar decided to free the tanker.
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Iran's Revolutionary Guard harassed a British oil tanker in the same region a week later but eventually sailed away after a UK Royal Navy frigate aimed its weapons and issued "verbal warnings" to them, according to the UK government.
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The company inquired last week about chartering an Aframax oil tanker to load crude from a U.S. Gulf port, two sources said, an arbitrage that at the moment yielded theoretical profits of as much as $2-$3 a barrel.
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The partnership with the only part of Libya producing and selling oil, combined with control of the Black Sea (where one oil tanker passes every 15 minutes), only serves to increase Putin's energy-based leverage over America's European allies.
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U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has divested his interests in oil tanker company Diamond S Shipping and is in the process of selling off his holdings in another shipping firm, Navigator Holdings, a Trump administration official said on Tuesday.
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Read more: Iranian gunboats backed away in a showdown with a Royal Navy frigate after staring down the barrel of the 'perfect weapon'Not long after that incident, Iran said it had seized the UK-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero.
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Five boats believed to belong to the Guards approached a British oil tanker in the Gulf on Wednesday and asked it to stop in Iranian waters close by but withdrew after a British warship warned them, U.S. officials said.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's navy wants to buy its first oil tanker to carry fuel to Okinawa as it cranks up operations in the East China Sea to counter a growing Chinese naval presence, two sources familiar with plan said.
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HONG KONG — Rescuers were searching Monday for crewmen missing from an Iranian oil tanker that had collided with another ship off China's coast, leaving the tanker in flames and at risk of exploding and sinking, the Chinese authorities said.
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OSLO/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey said on Friday that an Iranian oil tanker at the center of a confrontation between Washington and Tehran was headed to Lebanon's waters, but the United States later said the ship was sailing to Syria.
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ISTANBUL, Aug 31 (Reuters) - An Iranian oil tanker at the centre of a dispute between Washington and Tehran is no longer heading towards Turkey's Iskenderun port and now has no specified destination, Refinitiv ship tracking data showed on Saturday.
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"While there is a little bit of uncertainty with the oil tanker (incident) resulting in some upward pressure for gold, a weaker dollar and lower U.S. yields are most dominant drivers right now," ABN Amro analyst Georgette Boele said.
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Bunker fuel may now be leaking from the Iranian oil tanker that sank in the East China Sea last Sunday, China's State Oceanic Administration (SOA) said, underlining fears for contamination from the world's worst oil ship disaster in decades.
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