The Justice Department has filed a complaint to legally take ownership of a sanctioned tanker and nearly 2 million barrels of petroleum seized off the coast of Venezuela in December.

An oil tanker seized by the United States for carrying Venezuelan oil is set to transfer the crude to a smaller vessel off the coast of Texas that

Private jets fly over dilapidated Maracaibo as executives seek deals and crude prices surge. A real recovery will not be easy

The US Treasury Department has removed sanctions Thursday on a Marshall Islands-registered oil company and a Panama-flagged crude oil tanker previously blacklisted as part of Washington's pressure campaign against Venezuela.

Although President Trump said seizing tankers would be a financial boon, the cost of maintaining just one aging ship has already reached $47 million.

A month–long pursuit in Venezuela stretching all the way around the Indian Ocean resulted in US forces capturing on oil tanker that attempted to flee quarantine. The tanker, the Aquila II, is the eighth ship captured by the US since the Trump ...

Vessel tried to defy President Trump’s quarantine,’ says Pentagon as military forces boarded the Veronica III overnight

Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo, once the center of a booming oil industry, is now severely polluted and facing irreversible ecological destruction due to decades of unregulated operations, corroding infrastructure,