Secret fleet of oil tankers uses fake flags, shell companies and disabled tracking to smuggle crude from Russia, Iran and ...

Oil major Shell operates a fleet of giant ships permanently moored over oilfields around the world. The ships receive oil pumped from wells beneath the seabed and transfer it to tankers. Reporting by ...

President Donald Trump last week announced a "complete blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers going into and out of Venezuela," ratcheting up the pressure on Nicolás Maduro's regime as 15,000 U.S.

A 27-year-old crude tanker that was supposedly scrapped in 2021 is due to reach Venezuela late this week, according to ship-tracking data, in the latest example of how the South American country keeps ...

Venezuela’s oil industry, once a global powerhouse, has been decimated by years of sanctions and underinvestment. But it has ...

Oil major Shell operates a fleet of giant ships permanently moored over oilfields around the world. The ships receive oil pumped from wells beneath the seabed and transfer it to tankers. Reporting by ...

The tankers indulge in most of the dark fleet’s typical practices to obscure movements and ownership, including spoofing, or the use of fake locations.

What can go wrong was illustrated off Nigeria in 2011, when a pipe connecting Shell’s production ship Bonga to a tanker sprang a leak. The spill wasn’t noticed for more than four hours, and 40,000 ...