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August 2024 oil spill caused by attacks on the tanker Sounion; Location: Red Sea, "77 nautical miles to the West of Al Hudaydah": Coordinates: 1]: Date: 22 August 2024: Cause; Cause: Destruction of the oil tanker Sounion by Houthi militants: Operator: Delta Tankers: Spill characteristics; Volume: Up to 150,000 tons (~1 million barrels) of petroleum: The attacks on the MT Sounion refers to ...
The shuttle tankers system envisages a usage of oil tankers to transport oil from Kuryk terminal in Kazakhstan to Sangachal Terminal in Azerbaijan. [7] The capacity of this system would be 500,000 barrels per day (79,000 m 3 /d) in the initial stage, rising later up to 1.2 million barrels per day (190 × 10 ^ 3 m 3 /d).
Becoming landlocked after the Battle of al-Faw, and due to the blockade of Iraqi oil pipelines to the Mediterranean Sea by Iran's ally Syria, Iraq had to rely on its ally, Kuwait and other Gulf Arab allies to a lesser extent to transport its oil. After increasing attacks on Iran's main oil export facility at Kharg Island by Iraq, Iran started ...
Iran-backed Houthi rebels set off explosions on a Red Sea vessel carrying about 1 million barrels of crude oil.
A Greek-flagged oil tanker traveling through the Red Sea came under repeated attack Wednesday, leaving the vessel “not under command” and drifting ablaze after an assault suspected to have ...
An undersea cable in the Baltic Sea that provides power to Estonia was cut on Wednesday. Finnish authorities say they've seized an oil tanker they suspect caused the outage. Finland's president ...
Perhaps the cover of a pump had broken. Then there was an awful explosion." Five crewmen died immediately, as fire broke out and oil started leaking from the hull as the plates overheated. As the fire engulfed the ship, flames rose 100m high and, after a series of further explosions occurred, between 30 and 40,000 tons of oil poured into the sea.
The Houthis attacked an oil tanker last month, leaving it stranded in the Red Sea. The MV Sounion was finally towed to a safe area, a European naval mission announced this week.