Imagery Image Reveals First Venezuela-Linked Tanker Confiscated by US is Now Off Texas.
US personnel roped onto the vessel of the Skipper on December 10th.
Orbital data and vessel monitoring data has verified that the crude carrier Skipper – the first vessel apprehended by the United States for reportedly transporting embargoed oil from the Venezuelan regime – is now positioned near of Texas.
A satellite firm's orbital photographs from 21 December shows the ship is in the vicinity of Galveston, while Automatic Identification System ship-tracking feeds from a maritime data service presently positions the vessel about 50 miles offshore.
The tanker Skipper was seized by American officials on 10 December and has been blacklisted by multiple nations. When it was seized, it was incorrectly flying the flag of Guyana.
This interception was followed by the interception of a another oil vessel, the Centuries tanker. This ship – unlike the Skipper – was not under sanctions when it was taken into American control.
American agencies are currently targeting a third such ship, which has been named by the maritime risk group a risk firm as the Bella 1. President Donald Trump stated yesterday that “it will ultimately be secured”.
Writing on X, the TankerTrackers group said the Bella 1 has been “underway for over a month” and, at an average speed of 11 nautical miles per hour, may have “approximately a month of diesel left unless her velocity decreases”.
The monitoring service added the vessel is “probably traveling in a southeasterly direction towards South Africa”.
