Built in Hungary to tackle enormous oil-well fires, Big Wind combined a tank chassis with two jet engines and six water nozzles. The system blasted nearly 8,000 litres of water per minute, helping ...

The beginning of October sees attacks on commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz continuing apace with a tanker reported ...

Just as Gulf oil exports climbed back to prewar levels, traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has plunged again, with only ...

A Kuwaiti oil refinery with a capacity of 200,000 barrels per day (bpd) was shut down on Saturday after a fire but the ...

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The Strait of Hormuz is a critical maritime chokepoint linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea ...

A new incident has been confirmed in the Strait of Hormuz, with reports that a tanker was struck after a lull of nearly a week. It comes after ...

Maritime security firms name VLCC as Kuwait Oil Tanker Company (KOTC) owned, managed and operated Kazimah III, strike on ...

A strike by an unknown projectile ignited a fire on a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz late on Thursday, British authorities and Iranian media said. This is likely the fifth Iranian strike on a vessel ...

A drone strike in Sudan killed dozens of people, including children, said a rights group. Meanwhile, attacks on the Riyadh ...

By Usaid Siddiqui Oil exports from the Gulf have resumed significantly in recent days, despite a surge in attacks on ships around the Strait of Hormuz, maritime experts and trackers say. Gulf oil ...