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At least two tankers were struck in waters near Oman and Iran over the weekend as Tehran warned it would not fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz until its conditions for ending the war with the United States are met.
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, a British maritime security service, said a crude oil tanker was struck by an unknown projectile Saturday about four nautical miles east of Oman.
Another tanker was struck Sunday in the Strait of Hormuz, suffering damage to its engine room, according to UKMTO.
Vanguard Tech identified the vessel struck Sunday as the Lipsi, a new LR2 tanker linked to a Greek operator and Chinese owner. Industry reports also said the ship suffered engine-room damage.
The attacks are the latest in a renewed wave of strikes against tankers using the “shuttle” trade between Gulf oil producers and ship-to-ship transfer areas in the Gulf of Oman.
The pace of successful strikes has approached one tanker a day over the past week after several weeks of relative security.
Despite the attacks, tanker traffic continues through the U.S.-protected southern shipping corridor, according to satellite imagery. Naval analyst Tom Bike identified three disabled tankers near the Musandam Peninsula and at least four others making daylight transits through the channel.
Oil traffic through the waterway had recently rebounded to more than 12 million barrels per day, helping restore total Gulf exports to near prewar levels.
The Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly one-fifth of the world’s oil supply moved before the U.S.-Israel war began Feb. 28, has been the site of repeated attacks on commercial shipping in recent weeks.
Iran, meanwhile, reiterated Sunday that it would not fully reopen the strategic waterway until Washington meets Tehran’s conditions for ending the war.
“The Strait of Hormuz will not open until Iran’s seven conditions based on the Islamabad Memorandum are met, and Iran will not regulate its national security with tweets from American officials,” Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said, according to Iran’s Nour News.
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