Venezuela
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Americas
Salvage teams drafted in ongoing Tobago clean-up operation
The government of Trinidad and Tobago has hired overseas help in the ongoing clean-up along its shoreline following a laden…
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Environment
Oil from capsized vessel off Tobago makes its way back to Venezuela
Illicit oil shipped from Venezuela at the end of last month is making its way back home albeit in the…
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Americas
Mystery behind Tobago spill partially resolved
The mystery behind last week’s big oil spill off Tobago has been partially resolved. Analysis by Bellingcat, a Netherlands-based investigative…
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Tankers
Venezuelan oil sanctions to return in April
The US has announced the expiration of Venezuela’s oil sanctions exemption in April. Last October, Washington issued a six-month general…
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Tankers
Venezuela seeks IMO help to get tankers trading again
Venezuela’s vice president, Delcy Rodriguez, has been in London, urging the new head of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to…
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Tankers
Winners and losers from lifting of sanctions on Venezuela
Suezmaxes and aframaxes look set to be the beneficiaries of last week’s announcement that the US will ease sanctions on…
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Americas
US eases sanctions on Venezuela
Washington is easing its six-year-old sanctions against Venezuela. The US has issued a six-month licence authorising transactions in Venezuela’s oil…
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Tankers
Nearly a quarter of Venezuelan crude exports now heading to the US
Nearly a quarter of Venezuelan crude exports are now heading to the US, according to a new report from broker…
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Americas
PDVSA’s tanker fleet in urgent need of overhaul
The Venezuelan tanker fleet is largely not fit for trading, internal documents seen by Reuters show. More than half of…
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Tankers
PDVSA lines up aframax orders in Iran
Venezuela’s state-run energy firm PDVSA has set aside a total of $67.5m to order two aframax tankers in Iran, according…
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Ports and Logistics
Venezuela to assist Cuba with reconstruction of Matanzas port damaged by five-day fire
Cuba’s largest port for crude oil and fuel imports was heavily damaged in a fire that started on August 5 after…
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Tankers
US to ease sanctions, allow Venezuelan oil exports to Europe
The Biden administration has been courting Venezuela since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, hoping to weaken its ties with Russia.…
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Tankers
Tanker impacts of Venezuelan sanctions being lifted in the spotlight
Tanker analysts have been studying the ramifications for global oil trades if Venezuelan sanctions are lifted in the wake of…
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Offshore
PDVSA set to restart production at Corocoro field
Petróleos de Venezuela, known as PDVSA, is said to be preparing to restart output at its offshore Corocoro field, according…
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Tankers
Half the oil taken off stricken Venezuelan FSO
Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA has completed the transfer of half of the crude from the floating storage tanker, after…
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Offshore
PDVSA deploys aframax to unload oil from stricken FSO
Venezuelan national oil company PDVSA has deployed an aframax tanker to participate in the unloading operations of the floating storage…
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Tankers
Listing Venezuelan FSO sparks severe ecological concern
The FSO , which is anchored in the Gulf of Paria near Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago, has tilted severely,…
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Americas
Authorities plan to take oil off damaged Venezuelan FSO
Authorities from both Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela are planning to transfer the oil cargo the damaged Venezuelan to another…
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Offshore
Water ingress reported on Venezuelan FSO
Water ingress has been reported on an ageing FSO off Venezuela which is carrying 173,000 tons of oil onboard. Eudis…
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Americas
US blacklists four Greek tankers for involvement in oil trade with Venezuela
The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has blacklisted four single vessel companies for alleged…
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