Disputed Kurdish oil tanker mysteriously goes dark off Texas coast

[bananas]

Source: Reuters

A tanker near Texas loaded with $100 million of disputed Iraqi Kurdish crude has disappeared from satellite tracking, the latest development in a high stakes game of cat-and-mouse between Baghdad and the Kurds.

The AIS ship tracking system used by the U.S. Coast Guard and Reuters on Thursday showed no known position for the United Kalavrvta, which was carrying 1 million barrels of crude and 95 percent full when it went dark.

Several other tankers carrying disputed crude from Iran or Iraqi Kurdistan have unloaded cargoes after switching off their transponders, which makes their movements hard to track.

Days ago, the partially full Kamari tanker carrying Kurdish crude disappeared from satellite tracking north of Egypt’s Sinai. It reappeared empty two days later near Israel.

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Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/28/disputed-kurdish-oil-tanker-mysteriously-goes-dark-off-texas-coast/

[Sedona]

1. Pirates?

[Fred Sanders]

2. One tanker has $100 million of just oil...no wonder crops are rotting in bins while trains

full of oil criss cross the nation.

[freshwest]

3. Going to the Koch owned refinery near Houston? Where they want Keystone to give 'em tax-free oil?

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

4. Very interesting...

... and your points would appear of concern/valid.

On another note, "Good afternoon, Mister Phelps, your mission Jim,...".

[BlueEye]

5. Realistically, she probably turned around and set a course for Venezuela.

Venezuela will happily engage in this type of subterfuge.