Minister of Environment, Yasmine Fouad, urged the Council of Arab Ministers Responsible for the Environment (CAMRE) to avoid an environmental disaster caused by the lack of maintenance of the oil tanker (Safer) located in the Red Sea since 2015.

Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) has confirmed that the oil tanker, Valle Di Siviglia, has arrived at the eastern Libyan port of Brega.

Port Said Marine launched Habi Oil, the first double hull tanker of this size to be manufactured in the shipyard.

The number of tankers that are filling with Qatari crude along with that of Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates increased since tensions started.

South Africa’s Tshwane emergency services said that a fully-loaded tanker, with 55,000 liters of petrol, exploded and emitted a huge fireball into the air at the Watlou depot in Silverton.

At least 85 people were killed in South Sudan when a crowd tried to gather fuel from a transport truck that had veered off the road on its way to a region west of the capital Juba, the presidential spokesman said.

A runaway oil tanker truck exploded in a crowded bus station in the south of the country, setting ablaze 12 buses carrying passengers and killing 69 people, Nigeria's Red Cross and police said Monday.

Singapore has called on Iran to investigate the warning shots fired by Iranian vessels at a commercial ship in Persian Gulf.

A train carrying crude oil derailed in southern West Virginia on Monday, sending at least one tanker into the Kanawha River and sparking a house fire, officials said.

Oil loadings at Egypt's port of Sidi Kerir have been delayed by bad weather, three industry sources said on Friday, contributing to lower supplies in the Mediterranean.