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Climate & Environment · August 15, 2026

Salvage team begins containing oil spill from grounded tanker off Oman

The sanctioned tanker was carrying nearly one million barrels of Russian crude when it grounded near Qibliyah Island.

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An oil-support vessel underway in the Gulf of Oman in a file photograph; this is not the Caroline Bezengi.
File photo: U.S. Navy / Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Patrick W. Mullen · Public domain

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