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Venezuelan Coast News

09 Apr 2021

Venezuela: FSO Nabarima Finally Offloads Crude, Paving Way for Offshore Field Output Restart

The FSO Nabarima listing in the Gulf of Paria on October 16 (Photo: Fishermen and Friends of the Sea)

A floating facility off the Venezuelan coast has finished offloading crude stored in it for the past two years due to U.S. sanctions, paving the way for output to resume in an oilfield, an official of the facility's operator said on Thursday.Operations to remove crude from the Nabarima floating storage and offloading facility (FSO), anchored in the eastern Gulf of Paria near the maritime border with Trinidad and Tobago, started in December. The crude had been stored there since…

23 Jun 2020

US Warship Sails Near Venezuela After Iranian Cargo Ship Arrives

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Nitze (DDG 94) transits toward Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, June 19, 2020.  (U.S. Navy photo by Anaid Banuelos Rodriguez)

A U.S. Navy ship navigated near the Venezuelan coast on Tuesday in what the U.S. military's Southern Command called a "freedom of navigation operation," a day after a cargo ship from U.S. foe Iran docked at a port of the South American country.In a post on its website, the Southern Command said the USS Nitze, a missile destroyer, sailed in an area outside Venezuela's territorial waters - which extend some 12 nautical miles from its coasts - but within an area the Venezuelan government…

25 Sep 2015

Aruba, Citgo sign MOU to Explore Refinery Restart

Aruba's Energy Ministry said on Friday it has signed a memorandum of understanding with PDVSA's U.S. unit Citgo Petroleum to explore reopening and operating the island's refinery, idled since 2012. The 235,000-barrel-per-day refinery was operated buy U.S. firm Valero Energy, but it closed because of low margins. Since then the facility has been used as a storage terminal. "Citgo will send a group to evaluate the refinery technically and financially," Aruba's government said in a statement. Because of its proximity to the Venezuelan coast, PDVSA and Aruba's government have had talks since 2012 about a purchase or an operating agreement, but without any success. Reporting by Sailu Urribarri

30 Aug 2013

Caribbean Pirates Loot Message-in-the-Bottle

Bottle on the beach: Photo courtesy of Solo/Arjuna Maciel Camargo

In a page straight out of the next Pirates of the Caribbean-script, a well-known promotional campaign involving a 26 feet long message-in-a-bottle, has been robbed by aquatic pirates somewhere east of Barbados. Solo, a Norwegian soft drink company, released the 2.5 tons replica soda bottle outfitted with solar panels, a camera, and tracking technology to the ocean currents of Tenerife back in March, 2013. Some 145 days later they lost satellite connection with the bottle and the GPS-tracking stopped working.

20 Dec 2000

Grounded Tanker Refloated

A grounded Norwegian oil tanker carrying 450,000 barrels of crude oil was re-floated near the Venezuelan coast and left for the U.S. Tuesday night, authorities said. The SKS Tagus, bound for the U.S. port of Delaware, reportedly ran aground on in the Maracaibo shipping channel in western Venezuela after a problem with the steering, Reuters reported. "She was successfully re-floated and left last night," a shipping source said. The accident did not close the channel, which carries almost a million barrels of Venezuelan oil exports daily, because it occurred 180 meters outside the channel. The 53-mile (85-km) Maracaibo channel has been relatively accident-free since 1997…

17 Jan 2001

PDVSA To Sell Bunker Fuels On Internet

Venezuelan's Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) will begin selling bunker fuel via two Internet sites later this month, its first sales project across the Web, a company official said. PDVSA will offer fuel from its terminal in Freeport, Grand Bahamas Island to shipping companies via two industry Internet sites: www.oceanconnect.com and www.bunkerstem.com. "I believe that before the end of the month, in one or two weeks, we will be selling fuel (over the Internet)," said Rafael Vilagut, commercial support manager for the project. PDVSA hopes to expand the sales project later this year to sell bunker fuels from its other terminals on the Venezuelan coast. The company will also consider selling cargoes of other fuels via the Internet.

16 Jan 2001

Petroleos de Venezuela Delves Into E-Commerce Arena

Venezuelan state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) will begin selling bunker fuel via two Internet sites later this month, its first sales project across the Web, a company official said. PDVSA will offer fuel from its terminal in Freeport, Grand Bahamas Island to shipping companies via two industry Internet sites: www.oceanconnect.com and www.bunkerstem.com. "I believe that before the end of the month, in one or two weeks, we will be selling fuel (over the Internet)," a company official close to the project said. PDVSA hopes to expand the sales project later this year to sell bunker fuels from its other terminals on the Venezuelan coast.