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tanker

[tang-ker] / ˈtæŋ kər /




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On Friday, the first shipment of Russian oil departed on a tanker headed to the U.S.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

The tanker headed for New York shortly after US special envoy Steve Witkoff held separate talks with Zelensky and Putin this week, with both agreeing to resume Ukraine-Russia-US talks.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

The Russian embassy in South Africa said in a post on X on Friday that a tanker with Russian fuel was leaving Primorsk and heading to New York.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

But while most of Jackdaw's gas is likely to be consumed in the UK, Rosebank's oil will be taken off by tanker and sold on international markets.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

Even here, in the belly of an old oil tanker, there were rats, but these ones had died a long time ago.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi

The oil from Rosebank would be loaded onto tankers via a gigantic hose and nozzle, which looks like the super-sized pump of an enormous floating filling station.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Then, there was the issue of building the project on Alaska’s North Slope, dredging an enormous amount of seabed and securing icebreaker tankers to chart paths in the Arctic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

Tehran had millions of barrels of crude in tankers floating in Asian waters that gave it a steady flow of much-needed cash.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

The aging network of tankers illicitly transports Iranian crude oil, petroleum and petrochemical products to foreign markets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

I thought that when two American destroyers arrived, along with die Dutch cruiser Van Kingsbergen, to protect the lake tankers, Mother would change her mind.

From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor


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