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MV. Sirius Star. MV Manifa (formerly MV Sirius Star) is an oil tanker formally owned and operated by Vela International Marine. [3] With a length overall of 330 m (1,080 ft) and a capacity of 2.2 million barrels (350,000 m 3) of crude oil, she is classified as a very large crude carrier or VLCC. [3] Vela is based in the United Arab Emirates and ...
Nov 18, 2008 · But the seizure of the Sirius Star, a new ship more than 300 metres long and weighing three times as much as a typical aircraft carrier, took place in unpatrolled waters, hundreds of miles south ...
Nov 19, 2008 · The Sirius Star, a Saudi oil tanker now held by pirates, in an undated photo. The ship was anchored off Somalia on Tuesday. ... The supertanker, about the same length as an American Nimitz class ...
Jan 9, 2009 · Fri 9 Jan 2009 10.56 EST. Somali pirates who seized a Saudi supertanker with two British crew on board claim to have released the vessel and its crew today after receiving a $3m (£1.9m) ransom ...
Jan 12, 2009 · The 1,000-foot-long Saudi oil tanker Sirius Star has been released after a ransom was paid, two months after Somali pirates launched a shocking raid to capture the $150-million vessel and its $100 ...
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Feb 17, 2009 · Hijacked Supertanker Underlines Our Energy Vulnerability. Michael G. Frodl. Tuesday, February 17, 2009. The hijacking on the high seas by Somali pirates of a super tanker carrying 2 million barrels of crude oil destined for the US, and the multi-million ransom they demanded, created many troubling precedents and could not make the vulnerability ...
Nov 17, 2008 · The Sirius Star -- a crude "super tanker" flagged in Liberia and owned by the Saudi Arabian-based Saudi Aramco company -- was attacked on Saturday more than 450 nautical miles southeast of Mombasa ...
