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oil tanker United Kalavyrta

A ship full of Kurdish oil remains trapped at sea off the coast of Texas

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An oil tanker is sitting 60 miles off the Texas coast, trapped at sea with one million barrels of crude oil from Kurdish Iraq. It’s worth $100 million, but Baghdad and the government of the country’s autonomous Kurdish region can’t agree on who’s allowed to sell it.

A US Coast Guard image of the oil tanker United Kalavyrta, which is carrying a cargo of Kurdish crude oil, approaching Galveston, Texas on July 25.

A mystery oil tanker is anchored in limbo outside of Houston

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The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Roosevelt (DDG 80) at sea last month. US Navy SEALs operating off the Roosevelt seized the oil tanker, Morning Glory, late Sunday in international waters near Cyprus.

The US Navy has seized control of a stateless tanker carrying Libyan oil

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Secret of rare ‘spirit bear’ revealed by First Nation community

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Saudi oil tanker in pirate hands

Dinner With the Folks Who Made Chavez Possible

“We created Chavez,” he said, passing the foi gras. “We spent the last half a century building bigger walls around our properties rather than trying to improve our country. He is entirely of our making.”