The US Coast Guard is still pursuing a vessel in international waters near Venezuela as tensions in the region escalate, President Donald Trump has confirmed. "We're actually pursuing" the tanker, Trump said on Monday. "It came out of Venezuela and it was ...

1555 ET – Oil futures pick up from four sessions of losses after President Trump ordered a blockade of sanctioned tankers entering or leaving Venezuela. The advance was contained by market expectations of a large supply surplus next year. “There is ...

The United States is pursuing an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, according to multiple reports, just a day after the Coast Guard seized a different tanker in the same waters amid a rapid U.S. military buildup in the region. If seized, it would mark ...

A U.S. Coast Guard Maritime Special Response Team (MSRT) assisted by the U.S. Navy, seized a second oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela Saturday, a U.S. official confirmed to Fox News. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem took to X ...

The US Coast Guard is pursuing an oil tanker in international waters near Venezuela, officials told Reuters on Sunday, in what would be the second such operation this weekend and the third in less than a week. One of the officials said the tanker was under ...

The United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela in international waters, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem confirmed Saturday, a move that comes just days after President Donald Trump announced a “blockade” of all sanctioned ...

A 1,000-strong "dark fleet" of rogue oil tankers skirting sanctions has emerged as a new target for the U.S. and Ukraine, a senior maritime intelligence analyst claims. Michelle Wiese Bockmann warned the aging fleet poses geopolitical risks and threats of ...

The US is still in pursuit of a third oil tanker near Venezuela, according to a US official, as President Donald Trump intensifies an oil blockade on Nicolás Maduro’s government. The Bella 1 tanker, a Panamanian-flagged vessel sanctioned by the US, was ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Saturday confirmed that the United States Coast Guard“apprehended” an oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast. “In a pre-dawn action early this morning on Dec. 20, the US Coast Guard with the support of the ...

February WTI crude oil (CLG26) on Tuesday closed up +0.37 (+0.64%), and February RBOB gasoline (RBG26) closed up +0.16 (+0.09%). Crude oil on Tuesday extended Monday's rally on concern about oil risks related to Venezuela and Ukraine-Russia. Other bullish ...

LONDON/SINGAPORE, Dec 15 (Reuters) - The cost of shipping oil is likely to remain high in the first half of 2026 as the global fleet ages and a rising number of vessels are hit with Western sanctions, shipping sources say, though rates could be capped in ...