Tag Archives: Oil Tanker

 Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) seized a Panamanian-flagged oil tanker in the strategic Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, the second-such capture by Tehran in under a week. The confiscation of the oil tanker Niovi comes amid the disappearance of a crude oil tanker in southeast Asia believed to be …

An oil tanker associated with an Israeli billionaire has been struck by a bomb-carrying drone off the coast of Oman amid heightened tensions with Iran, The Associated Press reported on Wednesday. The attack on the Liberian-flagged oil tanker Pacific Zircon happened Tuesday night off the coast of Oman, one Mideast-based …