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Posted on 12/20/2025 11:05:38 AM PST by DFG
The United States Coast Guard is seizing a sanctioned vessel off the Venezuelan coast, two U.S. officials confirm to NBC News.
The operation is in progress. It was first reported by Reuters.
The Coast Guard is taking the lead, both officials said. The U.S. military is supporting with helicopters that are dropping off Coast Guard personnel and observing overhead, one of the officials said.
This comes after the U.S. interdicted a large, sanctioned oil tanker known as the Skipper off the coast of Venezuela last week.
After that operation, the Trump administration sanctioned six more ships believed to be carrying Venezuelan oil.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
Hail, seize her!
More high Sulphur Venezuelan crude oil. good for nothing.
Don’t have to invade Venezueala to get rid of Maduro. Just cut off the money supply and he’ll be running for his life in days.
More poor innocent fishermen?
Oh The Humanity!
Nonsense. We’re very good at cleaning, distilling, and cracking heavy sour crude.
If I am not mistaken, that’s all we can refine..
Coast GUARD-shouldn’t it guard OUR coast?
It is probably Cabello his buddy who really needs to disappear
It is probably Cabello his buddy who really needs to disappear. Or Carabello, I forget his name but he is supposedly the key guy.
“The distance from the Venezuelan coast to the U.S. coast varies, but it’s roughly 1,500 to 2,000 nautical miles (about 2,700 to 3,700 km) by sea”. Long way from our coast, for The Coast Guard.
Actually yes and no. We can refine anything but our refineries are set up for a fixed quality and quantity of different crude from many sources. Low sulfur light crude is easy. Heavy high sulfur crude is more difficult to refine and thus worth less. Venezuela oil with rare exceptions is high sulfur heavy crude. Brent light crude in Europe and West Texas Intermediate Crude are the standards of quality against which all other crude oils are judged by price. This is how it works, heavy high sulphure crude takes more money to refine into a product and thus is worth less. But, low quality crude is still very valuable. Case in point is Canadian Tar Sands, low quality oil, high mining costs, but still very valuable. It will price 10 to 20 dollars below West Texas Intermediate. One advantage is that it is a mining operation and thus close to 100% recovery of the oil. Traditional oil wells recover is much less. Venezuela's oil in the Oriente actually flows as opposed to Canada's oil sands mining, despite it being very heavy crude and high sulfur. It should be a source of great wealth for Venezuela, but is not due to an obscene government of Maduro. Venezuela has the worlds largest oil reserves and they are a failed nation. Communism does this.
I knew you would somehow find something to whine about!
Our Southern refineries are equipped to handle it.............
Thanks!
Send to California to supplement their shrinking output. Lower prices, anyone?
Yoku dekimashita.
Pearl clutching.onr of your favorite pasttimes?
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“Coast GUARD-shouldn’t it guard OUR coast?”
ROFLM#O.
The Coast Guard *IS* guarding our coast, and they certainly don’t need to wait until the enemy/poison/whatever is near our shore!
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