Imagery Data Shows Initial Venezuelan Tanker Confiscated by American Authorities is Now Off Texas.
US agents boarding the vessel of the Skipper on December 10th.
Orbital data and ship tracking data has verified that the oil tanker named Skipper – the first vessel seized by the US for reportedly carrying sanctioned oil from the Venezuelan regime – is now positioned near of Texas.
Vantor orbital photographs dated 21 December indicates the ship is near Galveston, while Automatic Identification System vessel-tracking data from MarineTraffic currently places the vessel about 50 miles from the coast.
The Skipper was taken into custody by US authorities on the tenth of December and has been blacklisted by several nations. When it was intercepted, it was incorrectly flying the ensign of the nation of Guyana.
This interception was succeeded by the capture of a another tanker, the Centuries tanker. It – in contrast to the first vessel – was not yet under sanctions when it was taken into US custody.
American agencies are now targeting a third vessel, which has been named by the risk management group a risk firm as the Bella 1 tanker. President Donald Trump said yesterday that “we’ll end up getting it”.
Writing on the social media platform X, the maritime monitoring group said the Bella 1 has been “in transit for 39 days” and, at an average speed of 11 knots, may have “another 28 to 35 days of fuel remaining unless her speed drops”.
The monitoring service added the tanker is “probably heading in a southeasterly direction towards the South African coast”.
