{"id":13404,"date":"2026-02-25T08:45:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/?p=13404"},"modified":"2026-02-25T08:45:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:45:53","slug":"trump-says-us-has-received-80m-barrels-of-venezuelan-oil-3rd-tanker-seized-oil-and-gas-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/?p=13404","title":{"rendered":"Trump says US has received 80m barrels of Venezuelan oil; 3rd tanker seized | Oil and Gas News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"article__subhead\"><em>US forces have \u2018captured\u2019 a third oil tanker in the Indian Ocean weeks after it reportedly left Venezuelan waters.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><button class=\"article-listen-container\" aria-labelledby=\"listen-text listen-duration\" data-testid=\"listen-to-article-button\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article-listen-container__text\" data-testid=\"listen-to-article-text\">Listen to this 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night.<\/p>\n<section class=\"more-on\">\n<h2 class=\"more-on__heading\">Recommended Stories<!-- --> <\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list of 4 items<\/span><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>\u201cAmerican oil production is up by more than 600,000 barrels a day,\u201d said Trump, who reiterated his promise to \u201cdrill, baby, drill\u201d for oil as president.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s lauding of growth in the US oil sector comes after he sent special forces to conduct a bloody raid on Caracas in January and abduct Venezuela\u2019s President Nicolas Maduro, who had warned that Washington\u2019s animosity towards his government was a pretext for the US to seize Venezuelan oil reserves.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has since promised to open up Venezuela\u2019s oil industry to US oil companies, including Chevron, Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips, which were among several oil companies Trump hosted at the White House for a meeting about the South American country\u2019s oil on January 9, just days after Maduro was abducted to the US.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4336863\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4336863\" style=\"width:770px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-arc-image-770 wp-image-4336863\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/AP26009076931929-1-1771998990.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C491&amp;quality=80\" alt=\"IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR FOSSIL FREE MEDIA - On the evening before President Donald Trump is set to meet with U.S. oil executives to discuss Venezuela, activists staged a large-scale projection opposing oil-driven intervention and the use of U.S. taxpayer dollars to subsidize Big Oil, on January 8, 2026 in Washington. (Michael A. McCoy\/AP Content Services for Fossil Free Media)\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4336863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Activists stage a large-scale projection opposing Trump\u2019s oil-driven intervention in Venezuela and the use of US taxpayer dollars to subsidise Big Oil, on January 8, 2026, in Washington, DC [Handout\/Fossil Free Media via AP]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Trump\u2019s comments followed after the Pentagon said earlier on Tuesday that US forces had boarded another oil tanker in the Indian Ocean linked to Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThree boats ran and now all three have been captured,\u201d the US Department of Defense wrote in a post on social media, which also included a video showing weapons directed towards a ship as it was boarded by troops descending from two helicopters.<\/p>\n<p>The post did not specify which country the vessel, known as Bertha, had come from, but said US forces had tracked the tanker \u201cfrom the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Samir Madani, a cofounder of oil tanker monitoring site TankerTrackers.com, said Bertha was one of the 16 oil tankers to have fled the Venezuelan coast after US forces abducted Maduro on January 3, according to The Associated Press news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Madani told AP on Tuesday that the Bertha was laden with 1.9 million barrels of Merey 16 crude, which is a grade of Venezuelan oil.<\/p>\n<p>The Bertha was flagged to the Cook Islands when it was placed under US sanctions related to Iran, according to the website of the Treasury Department\u2019s Office of Foreign Assets Control.<\/p>\n<p>However, the vessel was more recently listed under a false flag of the Caribbean island of Curacao and managed by a company in China, according to Equasis, a shipping information system.<\/p>\n<p>The latest developments come as the Trump administration continues to expand oil extraction in the US and abroad, including in Alaska\u2019s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s doubling down on fossil fuels comes as many island countries in the Caribbean region have been calling for a transition to renewable energy as they struggle to respond to increasingly severe tropical storms made worse by climate change.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US forces have \u2018captured\u2019 a third oil tanker in the Indian Ocean weeks after it reportedly left Venezuelan waters. 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