US oil production is poised to rise this year and next as President Donald Trump pushes for more drilling. But as crude prices tumble, most of the growth will come from a surprising source: the Gulf of Mexico.

Russia’s newest ice-capable oil tanker, Valentin Pikul, has reached the Vostok Oil project, under construction in the high Arctic, for the first time. The trip through hundreds of nautical miles of sea ice likely functions as the vessel’s ice trials.

Israeli naval forces boarded and seized a charity vessel carrying Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, which had tried to break the naval blockade of the Gaza Strip on Monday.

The Japanese oil refiner Taiyo Oil Co. is taking delivery of a cargo of Russian crude on a tanker that’s blacklisted by both the US Treasury and the European Union.

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North Korea has launched a warship that was damaged in May upon its attempted first launch, state media KCNA reported on Friday. After restoring the balance of the 5,000-tonne destroyer earlier in June, it was launched on Thursday and is now moored at a pier, KCNA said.

The US Coast Guard is reporting no injuries among the 22 crew aboard the medium-size car carrier. Morning Midas is capable of carrying around 6,000 motor vehicles. The vessel departed from Yantai, China on May 26 with destination Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexico where it was expected on June 15. According to shipping database Equasis the 2006 Morning Midas is owned by Hawthorn Navigation Inc. out of London with management by Zodiac Maritime Limited.

After months of inactivity Russia’s nascent fleet of sanctioned LNG carriers is on the move again. The 79,800-cbm Arctic Mulan (ex-Mulan) pulled alongside the 360,000-cbm Koryak FSU inside Bechevinskaya Bay in Kamchatka late on June 2. The LNG carrier has been in ballast for the past five months suggesting that it will be receiving cargo from the storage barge.

North Korea appears to have returned to an upright position its stricken Choe Hyun Class destroyer that partially capsized during a botched launching ceremony, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.