A Greek petrochemical carrier was seized, and another attacked, as was an Iranian oil tanker.

Initial reports said that a tanker carrying flammable liquids crashed into a flyover in the Saudi capital.

Fuel is transported from the depot to the aircraft either by road tanker or via a hydrant system.

He was drafted into the Navy in 1944 and served 18 months in the Pacific on an oil tanker.

Another example of a pirated ship is that of the merchant vessel Feisty Gas, a liquefied petroleum gas tanker.

After the Second World War, the Americans and Soviets exerted their influence whilst the volume of oil tanker traffic intensified.

For example, Italian naval forces were instructed to avoid the waters off the coast of Tripoli, and Spanish tanker aircraft were forbidden to refuel fighter jets.

In the same year, the first new ship built at the Gölcük Naval Shipyard, the tanker TCG Gölcük , was laid down and launched the following year.

Just last week, a Ukrainian freighter carrying heavy weaponry, including tanks, was hijacked. A Greek petrochemical carrier was seized, and another attacked, as was an Iranian oil tanker.

The grounding of the tanker Jessica , delivering bunker fuel and diesel for tourist boats and the Ecuadorian Navy, brought world attention to the marine threats from increased human activities on the Islands.

Five months earlier, more than 200 gallons of oil had spilled into the sea at Pockwood Pond, Tortola, during a ship to shore hose operation from an oil tanker to a gas station.

An interactive map showing Iraq's oil infrastructure, including the locations of oil pipelines, refineries, tanker terminals, gas and oil fields as well as oil wells, is available for the public for the first time ever.

Variants of planes in service, for example two seater versions or tanker versions of transports planes, add another letter to differentiate their function, and have their own sequence of serial numbers separate from the primary versions.

Concerned about the oil spill from the oil tanker that sank thirteen nautical miles off the south western coast of the Province of Guimaras in the central Philippines on 11 August 2006, resulting in that country's unprecedented maritime ecological disaster,

The technical, administrative and professional team of Hareega's blog wishes the Somali brothers every success in tightening their control over the oil tanker belonging to the Saudi brothers, and wishes them every success in the piracy of all remaining ships.

I got bored and left, and as I drove out, I drove past the slums of Bombay, as you always do, and I saw lines and lines in the hot midday sun of women and children with buckets waiting for a tanker to come and give them water.

Saudi Arabia has decided that it needs to play its fair role in confronting international piracy, particularly after the hijacking of Sirius Star, the Saudi owned supertanker seized over the weekend. The tanker, which holds 1 4 of one day s production of Saudi oil is being held off the coast of Somalia.