Venezuela, Coast Guard and Oil Tanker
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Coast Guard seizes $162M Venezuelan oil tanker headed to China again
The latest interception of a Venezuelan-linked supertanker bound for China has turned a simmering sanctions campaign into a full-blown maritime confrontation. The US Coast Guard again moved in international waters near Venezuela to halt a cargo of crude,
The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) has called for reinforcements to join in seizing and boarding a massive oil tanker on
A White House spokesperson said the tanker contained sanctioned oil. The second tanker is not on a list of vessels sanctioned by the U.S., a source said.
The United States hasn’t given up its pursuit of the massive, rusted oil tanker it chased into international waters near Venezuela last weekend, and officials are now contemplating moving additional resources into the area to forcibly board the ship,
Nov 20 (Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard on Monday said it was still looking for the source of a leak from an underwater pipeline off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico that it estimated had released more than a million gallons of crude oil.