Satellite Image Reveals Initial Venezuelan Tanker Seized by US is Currently Off Texas.
American agents roped onto the deck of the tanker Skipper on December 10th.
Orbital data and ship tracking data has verified that the crude carrier Skipper – the initial vessel seized by the United States for allegedly carrying embargoed oil from the Venezuelan regime – is now positioned near of Texas.
Vantor orbital photographs from 21 December indicates the ship is near the port of Galveston, while Automatic Identification System vessel-tracking feeds from a maritime data service presently positions the Skipper 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 intercepted, it was falsely flying the flag of Guyana.
This seizure was succeeded by the interception of a another oil vessel, the Centuries. It – in contrast to the first vessel – was not under official restrictions when it was brought under US custody.
US authorities are now pursuing a third such vessel, which has been identified by the risk management group Vanguard as the Bella 1. The US President said recently that “it will ultimately be secured”.
Writing on the social media platform X, the TankerTrackers group said the vessel Bella 1 has been “underway for over a month” and, at an typical pace of 11 knots, may have “approximately a month of diesel left unless her velocity drops”.
The group further stated the vessel is “probably heading south-east towards the South African coast”.
