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Iranian VLCC supertanker carrying 2 million barrels of gas condensate suddenly pops up at the José Terminal, Venezuela. Most likely sailed all the way around southern Africa given her transponder was switched off. Name & IMO number has been painted over. Goes by new name: HONEY
The Houthis targeted a tanker simply because the country of ownership is the UK, but did not bother looking into the origin of its oil cargo.
It is Russian.
These vessels have departed after the US President Biden announced that the United States of America will no longer be importing oil and gas from the Russian Federation.
[pretend you're surprised] 😲
Tankers carrying Iranian oil never get stopped, harassed, boarded or attacked while heading past the Houthis en route to Syria. It's just smooth sailing for them.
A Western-insured supertanker is currently receiving two million barrels of Iranian oil while donning a bright red nylon tarp so we wouldn't recognize her.
Tbf, this carpet didn't come from Iran.
Filmed from the bridge of the VLCC supertanker ENOLA (9251951) some 1.7 nautical miles away, here are the immediate few seconds following the explosion of the Aframax tanker PABLO (9133587) in Riau archipelago. You can see very large parts of her deck flying off to the sides.
BREAKING - We have now visually verified an oil tanker return towards Russia with most of its cargo after an unsuccessful complete delivery to Norway.
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BREAKING: A TANKER LADEN WITH $100M WORTH OF RUSSIAN CRUDE OIL ORIGINALLY BOUND FOR AN EU NATION HAS NOW ALTERED ITS DESTINATION FOR THE UNITED STATES. THIS OCCURS JUST DAYS AFTER THE US ANNOUNCED AN IMPORT BAN ON OIL AND GAS FROM RUSSIA.
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We have just informed clients of a vessel laden with Russian crude oil that made a u-turn in the Atlantic Ocean while en route to the US. We do not know why it happened (11 days ago), but the vessel appears to be in good order. No new departures taking place towards the US.
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As for this supposed "Russian dark fleet" we keep hearing about; tankers are not so dark anymore given that we have visually indexed every single one that can carry more than 430,000 barrels at a time. Our Corporate clients can quickly identify them with a couple of mouse clicks.
That is NOT what we said. We said the oil transfer is still unconfirmed. For all we know, the two crews could be enjoying coffee and playing cards together. One requires two dots in order to draw a line. We have to confirm the oil transfer. This is brand misrepresentation.
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Despite Iran FM Zarif’s promise to the UK that the
#AdrianDarya1
would not deliver oil to Syria, it is now transferring oil off the Syrian coast. Will the world hold Iran accountable if this oil is delivered to Syria?
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OOPS, THEY DID IT AGAIN!
A shipment of KRG crude oil departed Dortyol yesterday aboard the MARIKA. She disappeared and then reappeared hours later as a completely new vessel that has ABSOLUTELY ZERO HISTORY. Vessel characteristics match. Now in Ashkelon, Israel.
#OOTT
It's been ~9 days since the Iranian 'spy ship' BEHSHAD has taken shelter off the Chinese base in Djibouti. Over the past 5d, there haven't been ANY security incidents in the Gulf of Aden (Thanks, China?). Big slowdown in vessels choosing to AIS-signal to Houthis.
This video was taken 4 hours after the Aframax tanker PABLO (9133587) exploded. The vessel was fortunately empty of oil, but the buildup of gas was enough to blow up her entire deck. Since 2018, we have evidenced her transfer of 16 million barrels of Iranian oil on 29 occasions.
LIVE SITUATION THREAD START 2020-04-14
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CHINA-FLAGGED TANKER "SC TAIPEI" (IMO 9175535, 22,377 DWT) PURPORTEDLY FELL UNDER ARMED ATTACK IN GULF OF OMAN AT 12:48 UTC BY IRANIAN NAVY / IRGC. VESSEL WAS SAILING TO JUBAIL, SAUDI ARABIA. NOW OFF IRANIAN COAST. VIA
@GlobalDryad
BREAKING Indonesia's Coast Guard has secured two tankers engaged in an unauthorized STS (Ship-to-Ship) transfer of oil off their coast, while (mandatory) AIS was switched off. One of them is the Iranian VLCC "HORSE", which supplied 2M barrels of gas condensate to Venezuela.
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Bakamla RI mengamankan 2 kapal tanker, MT Horse berbendera Iran dan MT Frea berbendera Panama. Dugaan awal, kedua kapal tanker melanggar hak lintas transit pada ALKI I dengan keluar dari batas 25NM ALKI & melakukan lego jangkar di luar ALKI.
#BakamlaRI
Absolute nonsense.
1) Egyptian Navy secures the Suez Canal. They want MORE traffic, NOT less.
2) China wouldn’t tolerate the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. That’d place Iran under UN sanctions.
3) Qatar does not export LNG to Israel. Saudi and UAE don’t export oil to Israel.
BREAKING:
⚡ 🇾🇪🇮🇱Reports from Yemen that the Houthis plan to close all three waterways in the Middle East.
According to an exclusive Yemeni source, Ansarullah is considering implementing a plan they call the 'Al-Aqsa Triangle', by closing all three of the Middle East's major…
As anticipated, we were able to locate the MSC ARIES (9857169) which was hijacked by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) two days ago (2024-04-13) in the international waters of the Gulf of Oman. The vessel was taken to the Hormozgan archipelago, between the islands…
AIS data from
@MarineTraffic
confirms that a cargo vessel called SEA JUSTICE (9309514) rammed right into a fully laden (1 million barrels) Suezmax tanker called A SYMPHONY (9249324) off the coast of Qingdao, China this morning. More to follow. Thx
@tanker_cj
for heads up.
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Believe it or not, every single one of these tankers are currently in Venezuela. This form of location deception is made possible by AIS spoofing. Map by
@MarineTraffic
, a
@Kpler
company.
In hopes of not being targeted by Houthi militants, a Greek-owned tanker that departed Russia is currently broadcasting over AIS that it has nothing to do with Israel.
A mega containership called EVER GIVEN got stuck in the southern end of the Suez Canal and has now blocked off a lot of fully-laden tankers from traversing in either direction. Tankers carrying Saudi, Russian, Omani and US oil are waiting on both ends.
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@MarineTraffic
For the 2nd time this week, a supertanker capable of carrying 2M barrels is in Iran, all while covered in nylon tarp. This is done to avoid identification, something we specialize in. Interestingly, this is a Chinese-owned vessel with no known insurer. Yes, even they are worried.
Fuel oil spillage from the power plant at Baniyas, Syria is about to completely wreck the entire eastern coastline of Cyprus. Could news organizations kindly direct some more attention to this pressing matter? Thanks /TT
New satellite imagery analyisis by
@EOSOrbital
using Sentinel-1 indicats that the
#Baniyas
oil spill seems way larger than anticipated, with almost 1000km2, though visual IDing is need to see if and how big the oil sheen is h/t
@HarelDan
The Greek-owned, UK-insured and Marshall Islands-flagged Suezmax tanker ST NIKOLAS (9524475), laden with 1 million barrels of Iraqi crude oil, has been located today east of Qeshm Island, Iran. She was hijacked two days ago in the Gulf of Oman by the Iranian Navy. AIS is offline.
Red Sea AIS proclamations since this became a thing:
- 64 vessels refuting ties with Israel
- 19 vessels claiming Chinese crew onboard
- 2 vessels claiming Turkish crew onboard
#RedSeaCrisis
@tedcruz
Hi Ted,
It's actually 24 VLCC supertankers carrying a combined total of 50.4 million barrels, which spread out over 48 days of exports amounts to 1.05 million barrels per day in departures.
Everything you see between Madagascar and Brazil is due to arrive in May.
Cheers /TT
The number of vessels now stating that they have nothing to do with Israel, has suddenly boosted to 20; with one trying to make that point clear all the way from the middle of the Atlantic Ocean for good measure.
You know, just in case.
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We have indexed all of the world's (~3300) larger tankers and can quickly ID them in satellite imagery.
It was a real treat to work these past few months with the diligent team of pros at
@nytimes
Visual Investigations.
A totally bizarre incident involving an LNG tanker departing the US. The NOHSHU MARU (9796781) headed out to into the Atlantic and did three square laps, totaling 720 nautical miles, before continuing her journey. She was heading to Japan, but EU seems to want that cargo more.
We photographed this tanker today. She is carrying 1 million barrels (worth ~$78M) of crude oil to a client. Her AIS transponder was switched off for an entire week and had never announced Russia as her loading point.
The G7 price cap is proving to be more bark than bite.
Just a few days after Turkey's President Erdogan made his statement about Israel, we tracked a Turkish-flag tanker called OTTOMAN EQUITY deliver 870K barrels of Iraqi Kurdish oil to Israel. We track these shipments; all part of our Premium reports.
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Following last night's purported drone strikes (from Ukraine) on Novatek's hydrocarbon storage facilities at the Baltic Sea port of Ust-Luga, Russia, it is now evident that no tankers are loading oil. Ust-Luga is Russia's largest maritime terminal for crude oil exports.
#OOTT
For the past few weeks, we have kept visual track of a VLCC supertanker (capable of carrying 2 million barrels; worth >$160M of oil) that is spoofing over AIS to show that she is thousands of miles away. She is about to violate sanctions for the first time since ownership change.
The tanker which the Iranians have boarded today in the Gulf of Oman is the ST NIKOLAS (9524475); carrying Iraqi oil. Formerly known as the SUEZ RAJAN; she was seized by the US government for having transported a million barrels of Iranian oil in connection to a US company.
A record (?) 8 pairs of Ship-to-Ship transfers totaling 16 million barrels of Iranian crude oil worth $1.4 billion (pre-discount) were visually identified today in the Riau archipelago in the South China Sea; all bound for China.
This is happening on the back of a recent record…
Based on the data we have now reviewed along with an AIS playback, we have good reason to believe that a cargo vessel departing from
#LaGuaira
,
#Venezuela
has spilled its fuel oil following a possible failure. Vessel is currently broadcasting "not under command".
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#OilSpill
China imported 1.1 million barrels per day of crude oil from Malaysia. That’s really not bad output for a country that only produces half a million barrels per day. Oh, but wait! It also says China imported zero barrels from Iran and Venezuela.
#CreativeAccounting
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#China
full month crude imports by origin in million tons for the month of December (31 days)
Russia 9.56
Saudi Arabia 5.99
Iraq 5.13
Malaysia 4.65
Oman 3.94
UAE 3.64
Brazil 3.48
Angola 3.04
Iran 0
Venezuela 0
customs office
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BREAKING: A LARGE WAVE OF NINE MILLION BARRELS OF CRUDE OIL FINALLY DEPARTED KAZAKHSTAN'S CPC TERMINAL IN RUSSIAN TERRITORY AFTER 10 DAYS OF ZERO MARITIME EXPORTS
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We have early indication that a lot of Russian crude oil is currently underway to Venezuela.
This appears to be happening on the heels of a breakdown in oil relations between Iran and Venezuela due to payment disputes.
Iran is no longer supplying diluents to Venezuela.
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Remember the Norwegian tanker (ANDREA VICTORY) that was sabotaged off the coast of UAE in May? Well, apparently she is about to deliver petroleum prod. to Iran (Bandar Imam Khomeini port) from Oman after a recent ship-to-ship transfer in UAE. We live in interesting times!
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The Iranian 'spy ship' BEHSHAD (9167289), which had a hand in the Red Sea Crisis by assisting Houthis in launching attacks against commercial and naval vessels over the past several months, has now returned to Iran after a 3-year deployment. We were able to verify her in…
BREAKING: A shipment of around 44 million liters of gasoline has secretly arrived at El Palito, Venezuela from Iran aboard handysize tanker FOREST. This is according to our 6 week long tracking investigation. FOREST is the 3rd tanker we were expecting after FORTUNE & FAXON.
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Greek-owned vessel attacked in Red Sea Monday morning
A Greek-owned bulker, the Star Iris, was attacked by two missiles in the Red Sea today.
#AIS
data from
#MarineTraffic
shows the vessel, registered in the Marshall Islands, departed from Brazil on Jan 12 and is bound for Iran.
BREAKING: The containership EVER GIVEN has finally been frees from her spot after nearly a week!
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(via
@MarineTraffic
). A great job by all involved! 👏👏👏🚢🚢🚢
SOTHYS received her 700,000 barrels of Iranian oil cargo in June from OMAN PRIDE in the anchorage of Sohar, Oman. OMAN PRIDE picked up 2 million barrels in Iran last October. SOTHYS was denied entry into Longkou, China this July/August and went back to the Middle East.
BREAKING: A 50-foot tall wave was just recorded at the LOOP (Louisiana Offshore Oil Port). This happened as a result of the ongoing Hurricane Zeta. There are no tankers in the area.
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As part of our social presence, we take great pride in being responsible sources of verifiable data. Currently, there are a accounts spreading a misinformed narrative of that "tankers are full of oil"; using unfiltered
@MarineTraffic
maps. Here's what it really looks like.
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This situation looks pretty bad to say the least. Given that it's still burning the following day but not spreading across the deck, it implies that one of the oil cargo compartments may possibly be on fire. They attempted to extinguish it last night with foam.
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We can now publicly reveal that Russian crude oil is en route to Venezuela after LIGERA (9237072), a frequent sanctions violator, received roughly 1.7 million barrels via 2 STS transfers in the Laconian Gulf, Greece. She is heading most likely to the Punta Cardon refinery.
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Situation just went from bad to worse yesterday in Mauritius as the hull of the WAKASHIO snapped like a twig. These photos were taken just 3 hours apart thanks to
@planetlabs
unique ability to rapidly revisit (in hi-res) any same spot on Earth multiple times a day.
#SkySat
"NOTHING WITH ISRAEL", says the RUSSIAN-FLAGGED cargo vessel DIANA (9358058) as she heads into the Gulf of Aden towards the Red Sea.
Apparently, this flag is not immune either.
A Russian tanker recently transferred its crude oil cargo while the EU tanker had its AIS transponder switched off for three whole days.
The visual identification process took only a matter of seconds thanks to our Corporate Data Portal.
SOTHYS attempted to make a delivery of 700,000 barrels of Iranian crude oil to China but was rejected. SOTHYS then sailed all the way back to Iran and dropped anchor in Bandar Abbas. Yesterday she was relocated to the Strait of Hormuz.
Here's a portion of the crude oil storage tank farm in Cushing, Oklahoma on March 21st and April 18th 2020. Between these two dates, Cushing took on an additional 20 million barrels in storage. See the shadows within the tanks? The lids rise as they get filled. via
@planetlabs
In fact, once the BEHSHAD entered the Gulf of Aden on 2024-01-11, that's when things escalated in those waters:
01-12: KHALISSA
01-17: GENCO PICARDY
01-15: GIBRALTAR EAGLE
01-18: CHEM RANGER
01-24: MAERSK DETROIT & MAERSK CHESAPEAKE
01-26: MARLIN LUANDA & ACHILLES
We have now reviewed this morning's NASA satellite imagery as well as flaring data, and DO NOT SEE any indication of a burning pipeline.
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#Iran
#Sarbandar
#Khuzestan
We've managed to identify our very first surreptitious transfer of Russian crude oil in the South China Sea after spotting several in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Full details now available to clients.
Satellite imagery by
@planet
BREAKING, VISUAL CONFIRMATION: The Iranian handysize tanker FAXON (9283758) is discharging 33,000 metric tons of gasoil. Unable to deliver directly by sea to Lebanon due to sanctions, the vessel went instead to Baniyas, Syria for land transfer. Shall require 1,310 truckloads.
@subnut
The vessel filters at
@MarineTraffic
can show you which vessels are actually carrying crude oil. An unfiltered view will only show you all of the world's tankers regardless of if they're full or empty, carrying crude oil or carrot juice. The difference is massive. Cheers.
LIBYAN OIL FINDS ITS WAY INTO ISRAEL
Please note that we decided to withhold the name of the vessel along with the dates for the time being. We have however all the AIS data and satellite imagery to support this report.
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Another two AIS/radio beacons are also active some 32nm NE of Bornholm Island. They came online some 7 hours after the initial one. All three beacons belong to Denmark and appear to have been airdropped.
In short: There are at least 2 gas leaks, and both occurred yesterday.
The FSO Nabarima containing over 1 million barrels of oil is now dangerously tilting and it at risk of capsizing in the gulf of Paria. A phot taken on the 13th October shows the tanker dangerously tilting.
#Venezuela
BREAKING NEWS UPDATE: We have managed to locate one of the two hijacked Greek Suezmax tankers. The DELTA POSEIDON (9468671) is located south of Bandar-e Lengeh, Iran. That is west of Qeshm Island. We're still looking for PRUDENT WARRIOR (9753545).
This may not end well for tankers transporting Iranian oil to Syria past the shores of Israel; or even entering the Red Sea from the south for that matter.
Last night's satellite photo by NASA shows hundreds (if not low thousands) of fishing vessels in the Arabian Sea halfway between Oman and India. They're mostly all from China.
A Turkish tanker carrying a million barrels of Iraqi Kurdish oil for Israel during a day of armed conflict. All this following a diplomatic recall.
And it's not even Monday.
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Introducing, the SIERRA! This Aframax tanker is laden with around 700,000 barrels of oil. She's doing a "domestic" transfer between Russia's Black Sea port and the Pacific Ocean port of Vanino. Only issue is that she left empty and is now magically full.
#VamosAVenezuela
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BREAKING NEWS: First Confirmed Crude Oil Export Out Of
#Iran
Since Waivers Ended
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The vessel has JUST departed!
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Over the past 28 days, Guyana has exported 600,000 barrels per day of crude oil whereas Venezuela has exported 542,000 barrels per day even amid sanctions easing by USA.
This totally explains why Venezuela wants to annex a large part of Guyana; citing historical claims.
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Even if the US were to suddenly produce an extra 500,000 barrels per day of shale, it would not be consumed domestically; but exported. There are also not enough refineries to process light sweet shale oil. They need heavy sour oil such as Venezuelan, Canadian, Mexican, etc.
Senator Joe Manchin condemned the Biden administration’s decision to lift sanctions against
#Venezuela
’s oil and gas sector, arguing the US should instead turn to domestic crude production to fill any shortfall.
#oott
For crying out loud, these are traditional fishing dhows made of teak wood. When parked together, a fire will spread very quickly. It's not the first time this has happened. It's been quite windy lately. We know. We were in the area just two days ago.