SHAH ISMAYIL KHATAI

The tanker is involved in the transportation of russian crude oil/petroleum products from FSO IMO 9448968, owned and operated by the russian company Lukoil-Nizhnevolzhskneft LLC (TIN 3444070534), one of the largest oil producers engaged in the exploration and development of oil and gas fields in the Caspian and Azov Seas and a 100% subsidiary of the sanctioned PJSC LUKOIL. The FSO FSO IMO 9448968 floating storage facility is designed to store russian oil from the Yuri Korchagin field located in russian waters in the northern Caspian Sea, 180 km from Astrakhan and 240 km from Makhachkala. The field was discovered by the sanctioned russian company Lukoil in 2000. Hydrocarbons from the storage facility are delivered ashore to Makhachkala by shuttle tankers weighing between 6,000 and 12,000 tons. In Makhachkala, the oil is fed into the Novorossiysk Makhachkala pipeline, which is operated by the Azerbaijani state-owned company SOCAR together with the russian sanctioned company PJSC Transneft (TIN 7706061801).
The tanker IMO 9397676 is involved in dark activities near the russian city of Derbent (Dagestan).
In June 2025, Canada imposed sanctions on the vessel.