A North Sea shuttle tanker is being redeployed to the Gulf of Mexico by BP as part of the response to the Deepwater Horizon rig spill.
The 130,000-dwt Loch Rannoch (built 1998) which normally runs between the Schiehallion field and Sullom Voe is already crossing the Atlantic.
BP has had the Loch Rannoch on bareboat charter since delivery by Daewoo.