'Secretive' UAE and Swiss-based firms found to be major crude suppliers to Israel, says report

'Secretive' UAE and Swiss-based firms found to be major crude suppliers to Israel, says report Submitted by Katherine Hearst on Thu, 09/03/2026 - 11:55 Vitol and Heritage Petroleum FZCO supplied 22m barrels of crude, much of it shipped via Turkey despite Ankara’s trade embargo, new data has revealed A crude oil tanker crosses the Bosphorus Strait in the Besiktas district of Istanbul on 6 April 2018 (Ozan Kose/AFP) Off Two little-known oil traders, Vitol and Heritage Petroleum FZCO, have emerged as two of the top su