Satellite Image Reveals Initial Venezuelan Tanker Confiscated by US is Currently Off the Texas Coast.
US personnel boarding the vessel of the tanker Skipper on December 10th.
Orbital data and ship tracking information has verified that the oil tanker Skipper – the first vessel seized by the United States for allegedly transporting embargoed oil from the Venezuelan regime – is now off the coast of the state of Texas.
Vantor satellite imagery from 21 December shows the tanker is in the vicinity of the port of Galveston, while Automatic Identification System vessel-tracking data from a maritime data service presently positions the Skipper about 50 miles from the coast.
The Skipper was seized by American officials on the tenth of December and has been blacklisted by multiple governments. When it was seized, it was falsely flying the flag of the nation of Guyana.
This seizure was followed by the capture of a another tanker, the Centuries tanker. It – unlike the Skipper – was not under official restrictions when it was taken into American control.
American agencies are now targeting a third such ship, which has been named by the risk management group a risk firm as the Bella 1. President Donald Trump said recently that “it will ultimately be secured”.
Writing on the social media platform X, the TankerTrackers group said the Bella 1 has been “underway for 39 days” and, at an typical pace of 11 knots, may have “another 28 to 35 days of fuel left unless her speed drops”.
The monitoring service added the vessel is “probably traveling south-east towards South Africa”.
