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US Seeks Forfeiture of Seized Tanker Carrying Venezuelan Oil

Bloomberg · last updated

The US government has filed a forfeiture complaint for a seized oil tanker holding 1.8 million barrels of crude, alleging the ship transported oil from Iran and Venezuela to rogue regimes.

The oil supertanker Skipper was seized in early December as part of a pressure campaign against former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and is sitting off the Texas coast at the Galveston Offshore Lightering Area. Skipper holds just under 2 million barrels of crude supplied by state-owned Venezuelan oil company Petróleos de Venezuela S.A., the US Department of Justice said Friday.

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