The Strait of Hormuz is effectively closed. Since the beginning of the conflict involving the United States, Israel and Iran ...

Oil major Shell operates a fleet of giant ships permanently moored over oilfields around the world. The ships receive oil pumped from wells beneath the seabed and transfer it to tankers. Reporting by ...

Seafarer tells of explosions in the sky as thousands stuck on vessels after strait of Hormuz is effectively closed to shipping ...

Off the coast of Nigeria, one of the world’s largest oil production ships, called the Bonga, was taking oil from a field on the ocean floor and transferring it to a tanker ship. Such transfers are ...

After the U.S. seized a tanker carrying Venezuelan crude oil, the shadowy fleet of "ghost ships" used to evade sanctions drifted squarely into President Donald Trump's crosshairs. On Dec. 10, Trump ...

November 12, 2025: Britain recently sanctioned 135 oil tanker ships as part of a crackdown on Russian efforts to sell oil. The Russian economy has been sanctioned since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.

Belgian special forces boarded the Ethera, which was sailing under the flag of Guinea, on Saturday night ...

After a two week chase, U.S. forces have seized a Russian-flagged oil tanker in the north Atlantic between Iceland and Britain. The tanker was originally bound for Venezuela, but changed course to ...

What can go wrong was illustrated off Nigeria in 2011, when a pipe connecting Shell’s production ship Bonga to a tanker sprang a leak. The spill wasn’t noticed for more than four hours, and 40,000 ...