{"id":442937,"date":"2026-01-13T18:18:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/01\/13\/petroliere-greche-colpite-nel-mar-nero-possibile-coinvolgimento-ucraino\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T18:48:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:48:25","slug":"greek-oil-tankers-hit-in-the-black-sea-possible-ukrainian-involvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/01\/13\/greek-oil-tankers-hit-in-the-black-sea-possible-ukrainian-involvement\/","title":{"rendered":"Greek oil tankers hit in the Black Sea, possible Ukrainian involvement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – Three Greek oil tankers were hit by unidentified drones in the heart of the Black Sea. According to Reuters<\/em><\/a>, the incident occurred while the vessels were en route<\/span> to an oil terminal on the Russian coast<\/strong>, the final stop on the Kazakh Caspian Pipeline.<\/strong> Although not explicitly stated, suspicions point to Ukrainian involvement<\/strong>, given that the infrastructure had already been hit twice by Kyiv. One reason for Kyiv’s interest is that 27 per cent of the pipeline is operated by the Russian company Transneft<\/strong>, even though the oil it carries is Kazakh. The Italian company Eni<\/strong> also participates in the consortium, with a 2 per cent stake. <\/p>\n

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Two to four tankers with Kazakh oil were attacked by drones.<\/p>\n

Two oil tankers were attacked by drones near the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) terminal on Tuesday. <\/p>\n

One of the tankers – Delta Harmony – is operated by the Greek company Delta Tankers and was due to load\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/3IS4ePk0UM<\/a> <\/p>\n

\u2014 Levan Gudadze (@GudadzeLevan) 13 January 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Damage to ships<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n

One of the most damaged vessels is believed to be the Matilda, operated by the Greek company <\/span>Thenamaris. <\/span><\/strong>According to a spokesperson for Thenamaris <\/span>contacted by <\/span>Euronews, “<\/span>A fire broke out on deck<\/span><\/strong>, <\/span>but it was immediately brought under control<\/span><\/strong>: the damage was minor and completely repairable, and no injuries were reported. The ship, the company said, was safely removed from the area.” A significant factor is that the drones struck before <\/span>the cargo ships were loaded with oil.<\/span><\/strong> For this reason, the damage was less severe than in similar cases. According to reports, <\/span>the integrity of the vessels should not be compromised, and there are no injuries or fatalities among the crew.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u26a1 Drones hit four Greek oil tankers in the Black Sea<\/span><\/p>\n


\nFour tankers owned by Greek companies were attacked by drones on January 13 in the Black Sea, near the terminal of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, according to sources cited by Reuters and Bloomberg. <\/p>\n

The vessels targeted\u2026 <\/span>pic.twitter.com\/ONPX1hxMlJ<\/span><\/a> <\/p>\n

\u2014 NEXTA (@nexta_tv) <\/span>January 13, 2026<\/span><\/a> <\/p>\n

Eni also penalised<\/span><\/h3>\n


\nThe location of the incident should not be underestimated. The attacks took place in the Black Sea, a few kilometres from Novorossiysk<\/strong>, a Russian city that is home to the Caspian Pipeline terminal. The infrastructure, capable of transporting hydrocarbons, is managed by an international consortium<\/strong>. The main beneficiaries of the pipeline’s revenues are the Russian state-owned company Transneft, but also Western entities such as the American companies Chevron and ExxonMobil, the British company Shell and the Italian company Eni<\/strong>. The drone attack mainly penalises these companies, which have no way of transporting their crude oil out of the Black Sea basin. <\/p>\n

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The precedents and the Kazakh oil crisis<\/span><\/h3>\n


\nThis is not the first time that the Russian terminal has been targeted, nor is it the first time that the entire Transcaucasian infrastructure has been targeted. In February, <\/span>a pumping station in Russian territory was hit<\/span><\/strong> by UAV drones, <\/span>reducing the flow of hydrocarbons by 30 per cent.<\/span><\/strong> In November, however, <\/span>a Ukrainian drone<\/span><\/strong> damaged <\/span>one of the three main moorings.<\/span><\/strong> These explosions continue to affect the infrastructure, causing <\/span>a collapse in Kazakh oil production<\/span><\/strong>: <\/span>-35 per cent<\/span><\/strong> since the beginning of the year compared to the December average. Suspicions of Ukrainian involvement are not unfounded, although <\/span>no comments have been received from the Ukrainian authorities so far.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The vessels were heading for the Russian terminal on the Black Sea to load Kazakh oil that had arrived there via the Caspian Pipeline. By 2025, the infrastructure had already suffered two attacks, one of which was definitely the responsibility of Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7891,"featured_media":442929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25707],"tags":[28781,32870,32871,30781],"class_list":["post-442937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-politics","tag-droni-and","tag-petroliera","tag-petrolio-kazako","tag-ukraine-in-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442938,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442937\/revisions\/442938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}