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The capture of a Saudi oil tanker by Somali pirates has focused attention on the lawless waters of the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean.

"The interception of the Iranian oil tanker by a U.S. naval vessel has been a vile transgression and the Islamic Republic of Iran reserves the right to follow up this violation through legal channels," Mr. Mohtashami said.

A lightly armed boarding party from the guided missile cruiser Monterey landed on the tanker by helicopter on Wednesday after repeated attempts to get the tanker to respond to radio queries about its cargo, said the spokesman, Rear Adm. Craig Quigley.

Their skipper James Kayll told BBC Breakfast about their achievement and how they managed to avoid a collision with a tanker by using flares.

Although the shock capture of a Saudi-owned oil tanker by Somali pirates provided a brief distraction from the grim picture of declining demand, a fresh OPEC cut is now likely to be approved when the cartel meets in December.

The hijacking of a Saudi oil tanker by Somali pirates may have been unexpected, but it would have to be the first of many to get traders worrying about supply rather than demand.

Energy investment in international transportation: The oil imported by tanker and by pipeline and the gas imported by tanker and by pipeline are shown in Fig. 5.

Open image in new window Fig. 5 Amounts of IO and ING by tanker and by pipeline (NB. 2015 data are only for 7 months).

It is, however, comparatively simple to arrange in oil tankers, by filling the cargo tanks with seawater.

The Air Force said the first phase of the contract would be worth $3.5 billion, and it would cover the construction of the first 18 tankers by 2017.

I recently drove past the hulks of burned out oil tankers by the side of the Grand Trunk Road headed to the Khyber Pass, torched by militants when Pakistan temporarily halted the convoys in retaliation for our incursion.