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Imagery Image Reveals Initial Venezuelan Oil Ship Seized by US is Currently Off the Texas Coast.
US agents boarding the vessel of the Skipper on 10 December.
Satellite imagery and ship tracking data has verified that the oil tanker Skipper – the first vessel seized by the United States for reportedly carrying embargoed oil from Venezuela – is currently positioned near of Texas.
A satellite firm's orbital photographs from 21 December indicates the ship is in the vicinity of the port of Galveston, while Automatic Identification System vessel-tracking data from a maritime data service currently places the vessel about 80km offshore.
The tanker Skipper was seized by US authorities on the tenth of December and has been sanctioned by multiple governments. When it was seized, it was incorrectly sailing under the ensign of Guyana.
This seizure was succeeded by the capture of a another tanker, the Centuries tanker. It – unlike the Skipper – was not yet under official restrictions when it was brought under US custody.
American agencies are currently pursuing a third such vessel, which has been identified by the maritime risk group Vanguard as the Bella 1. President Donald Trump stated recently that “we’ll end up getting it”.
Writing on the social media platform X, the maritime monitoring group noted the Bella 1 has been “in transit for 39 days” and, at an average speed of 11 nautical miles per hour, may have “approximately a month of fuel remaining unless her velocity decreases”.
The monitoring service added the vessel is “likely heading south-east towards the South African coast”.
Anne Thomas
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