Deadly Explosion off Nigeria Points to Threat From Aging Oil Ships Around the World October 31, 2023 By Helen Wieffering and Grace Ekpu OKITIPUPA, Nigeria (AP) – It was the dead of night when the ship caught fire, Patrick Aganyebi remembers, but the...
World’s Ghost Fleet in Focus Over US Russian Price-Cap Crackdown October 26, 2023 By Robert Harvey and Natalie Grover U.S. penalties on shippers transporting Russian oil in breach of the G7’s price cap could push more Russian cargoes onto...
Oil Tanker Adrift in Indian Ocean Is Latest Reminder of Dangers of Shadow Fleet October 11, 2023 By Alaric Nightingale and Chandra Asmara A 26-year-old oil tanker that’s moving fuel for Russia drifted for two days in a busy shipping lane in the...
Shadowy Russian Oil Trade Employs Fake Coordinates and Tanker Tricks September 29, 2023 By Alaric Nightingale On a sunny day off the southern coast of Greece last week, two aging tankers nestled next to each other...
Russia Oil Hitting $60 Cap Adds to Crude-Oil Buyers’ Banking, Shipping Woes July 14, 2023 By Serene Cheong A top buyer of Russian oil is bracing for trading trouble as the price of Urals, the country’s main export...
Russia’s Flagship Crude Oil Surpasses G-7 Price Cap in Blow to Western Sanctions July 13, 2023 By Alaric Nightingale and Lucia Kassai Russia’s flagship Urals crude oil breached a price cap set by the Group of Seven, a blow to western sanctions...
Indonesia Seizes Iranian-Flagged Tanker Suspected of Illegal Oil Transfer July 11, 2023 By Stefanno Sulaiman and Fransiska Nangoy Indonesia’s coast guard said on Tuesday it seized an Iranian-flagged supertanker suspected of involvement in the illegal transshipment of crude...
Russia-Linked Oil Tanker Fleet Vanishes Even Faster Than It Grew July 11, 2023 By Julian Lee and Alex Longley A fleet of tankers that sprouted up out of nowhere to keep Russia’s oil moving has disbanded even faster than...
Russia’s Aging, Dark Fleet of Oil Tankers Gets Infusion of Newer Ships July 3, 2023 By Alex Longley and Serene Cheong An armada of tankers ferrying sanctioned oil around the globe is starting to get younger, bucking a months-long trend of...
Singapore Detains Record Number of Oil, Chemical Tankers as Dark Fleet Grows June 1, 2023 By Alex Longley Singapore’s detentions of oil and chemicals tankers have surged since early last year, highlighting growing concerns over the environmental and...