The Marinera, which was seized by the U.S., isn’t the only ship from the “shadow fleet” of oil tankers to switch lately to a Russian identity, seeking protection.

The oil tanker now known as Marinera was seized by the United States on Wednesday in the North Atlantic after a dramatic pursuit lasting more than two weeks.

(Handout/US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem's X account/AFP) The United States "apprehended" an oil tanker off Venezuela on Saturday, a move Caracas deemed a "theft and kidnapping," in the latest salvo of a pressure campaign by Washington, the ...

FILE: Tankers at the refinery near Punto Fijo, Venezuela, Dec. 30, 2021. President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, that the United States would impose a blockade on all "sanctioned oil tankers" going to and from Venezuela, in an ...

The president’s Energy and Interior secretaries are joining the effort to cajole the petroleum businesses to invest in the country’s shattered oil fields

The U.S. military says U.S. forces have boarded another oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea as the Trump administration continues to target sanctioned tankers traveling to and from Venezuela. The

About a dozen tankers ‌loaded ​with Venezuelan crude and ‌fuel departed in recent days from the country's waters ​in dark mode, seemingly breaking a strict blockade imposed by the ‍U.S. amid intense pressure that ​mounted until the capture of deposed President Nicolas Maduro,