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 ...

Between Iceland and Scotland, grey waves rolled beneath a rust-streaked tanker as U.S. forces moved to intercept. The ...

November 12, 2025: Britain recently sanctioned 135 oil tanker ships as part of a crackdown on Russian efforts to sell oil. The Russian economy has been sanctioned since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.

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 ...