The day after Somali pirates seized the Sirius Star in the Indian Ocean, Saudi Aramco told the official Saudi television network that its crude oil exports from terminals on the Gulf and the Red Sea were continuing as usual. The Sirius Star, a 330-meter long VLCC loaded with 2 million barrels of crude oil worth an estimated 100 million, is now moored off the Somali coast, after having been docked for a while in the port of Haradheere, 300 km north of Mogadishu. It has a 25-man crew on board consisting of two Britons, two Poles, a Croat, a Saudi and 19 Filipinos.
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