Hormuz Tanker Attack Today: ADNOC Ship Hit, Tanker Struck

A vessel belonging to the Emirati state shipping group ADNOC Logistics and Services has been damaged in an attack inside the territorial waters of the United Arab Emirates, on an afternoon in which a second tanker was struck by an unidentified projectile off Oman’s Musandam peninsula. The UK Maritime Trade Operations centre reported in its Warning 201-26 that the tanker was hit at 13:38 UTC on November 10 about 19 nautical miles northeast of Limah, with the master stating that all crew were safe. Neither the centre nor the Emirati company named the ship, gave the extent of the damage or said who had fired, and it remains uncertain whether the two reports describe one incident or two. The attacks highlight that Gulf-owned shipping is now being hit inside Emirati waters as well as on the Omani side of the strait.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps made considerably broader claims on the same day, stating first that two tankers on what it called an unauthorised route had been halted after “massive explosions and are left burning”. A later statement said a third had “exploded this afternoon after striking a naval mine”, and the Guards claimed that one ship was a supertanker and another was sailing under U.S. military escort, without naming any of them. None of the three claims has been independently verified, and they follow a run of claimed mine strikes that monitoring forces recorded as a much smaller number of attacks. Late on November 10 the British centre issued a further notice of an incident involving a tanker in the strait, with the ship, the nature of the event and the state of its crew all left undisclosed.

The ADNOC report follows a weekend fire about eight nautical miles off Khasab aboard a product tanker managed by Navig8, a company majority owned by ADNOC Logistics and Services, whose crew was evacuated on a day the Guards said three ships had been hit for using unauthorised routes. The Joint Maritime Information Center kept its threat level for the Strait of Hormuz at severe on November 8, calling further deliberate attacks “highly likely” after five attacks off Musandam between November 1 and 5. Daily transits have fallen to between single figures and the low teens against an average of about 138 in 2025, with some 162 ships reported at anchor off Fujairah and Khor Fakkan and U.S. forces facilitating 91 transits between November 5 and 7.

The strikes come only a week after a tanker was hit near Limah in the same waters, and they coincided with crude prices falling to a two-month low on November 10 after U.S. officials played down the need for further military action against Iran. U.S. Central Command stated last month that all mines in the primary transit routes had been cleared, while its forces continue to enforce the blockade of Iranian ports. The International Maritime Organization has counted 130 incidents against shipping in the region since the war began in late February, with at least 25 seafarers killed.