tanker

Longer shuttle routes would sharply increase tanker requirements.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Drone attacks that shut Saudi Arabia’s bypass pipeline earlier this month have forced more crude back through the Strait of Hormuz and onto a tanker fleet already stretched thin.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

Generally speaking, however, tanker convoys, escorted by air and sea by the U.S. military, do the perilous transit through the Strait of Hormuz to the Gulf of Oman.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

The report identified losses to the American fleet, including four F-15s fighters destroyed, one F-35 fighter damaged, seven KC-135 tanker aircraft damaged and up to 30 MQ-9 Reaper drones destroyed.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

The tanker was still near, but moving away rapidly.

From "The Voyage Of The Frog" by Gary Paulsen

Saudi Aramco, the country’s state-controlled oil giant, is loading more oil onto tankers in the Persian Gulf and then taking its chances sending them through the Strait of Hormuz.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Saudi Aramco is loading more crude at its Persian Gulf terminals and moving it through Hormuz before transferring some cargoes to tankers off Oman for delivery to customers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Ship-to-ship transfers allow crude to be carried on shorter shuttle runs through Hormuz before being transferred off Oman to tankers headed to global markets, limiting the need for long-haul vessels to enter the Persian Gulf.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

The union said some bottled-gas tankers are crossing into Pakistan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Ahmad was a ship captain, had been for thirty years, piloting tankers and ocean liners in every conceivable body of water, and he knew as much as anyone about storms, their trajectories and power.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers