tanker
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Oil tanker captains are being paid $100,000 a month to travel through the Strait of Hormuz, according to the Financial Times.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Moving it through a pipeline and into a tanker requires treatment that would add $15 a barrel to its cost, he estimates, not counting the specialized equipment needed to refine it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
September tanker rates surged following disruptions to Saudi Arabia’s oil shipments, with very large crude carrier rates averaging $231,500/day, an increase of 81.3% over 1Q averages, he notes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Earlier, as von der Leyen arrived, local broadcasters showed footage of a small group of protesters attempting to block her exit from the airport with a truck and a tanker.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
Enrique flees from car to car, more than twenty in all, struggling to keep his footing each time he leaps from a hopper to a fuel tanker, which is lower and has a rounded top.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
Gulf producers had pushed crude shipments back toward prewar levels using shuttle tankers and alternative export routes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Saudi Arabia’s share of shuttle tankers is rising fast, Jungman said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
To keep exporting oil, the kingdom’s flagship oil company Aramco has joined its regional peers in employing shuttle tankers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Maritime Trade Operations reporting several attacks on tankers transiting the waterway in recent weeks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
The big tankers from the United States or England always carried fresh water to us in ballast, and then it was distilled again so that we could drink it.
From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor
