Fear of US sanctions means that hardly anyone wants to buy crude oil from Venezuela. Tankers with a delivery volume of two months are now stuck on the oceans and looking for buyers.
The “black gold” is becoming the “buck”: companies fear that the US authorities will persecute them due to possible sanctions violations, Venezuela To take off crude oil. According to industry data, at least 16 oil tankers are currently cruising around the world in search of a buyer – some of them for half a year. There are 18.1 million barrels in their bellies (159 liter barrels) oil. This corresponds approximately to the Venezuelan production volume of two months.
This raw material is usually only loaded when the destination has already been determined. Loads without a customer are considered an emergency sale and are usually offered at a clear discount, because time is money in the truest sense of the word. The mooring fees for an oil tanker alone are at least $ 30,000 a day.
Venezuela’s oil company PDVSA has no buyers
He has been trying unsuccessfully to find buyers for a load since January, says a manager of a dealer registered with the Venezuelan state-owned oil company PDVSA. Mooring fees for the tanker had already been accumulated for 120 days. In Malaysia According to data from the provider Refinitiv, six ships are waiting for the Shipping company Eurotankers have been unloading for months. The company could not be reached for a comment.
MT Kelly, who is flying the Panamanian flag, has already had an odyssey: According to PDSVA documents, she stabbed in April Turkey at sea. No sooner had she arrived in the Mediterranean than she turned and drove down the street Gibraltar back to the Atlantic. There she turned south and drove along the African coast.
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