US personnel boarding the vessel of the Skipper on December 10th.
Satellite imagery and vessel monitoring data has verified that the crude carrier Skipper – the first vessel apprehended by the United States for allegedly carrying embargoed oil from the Venezuelan regime – is currently positioned near of the state of Texas.
Vantor orbital photographs dated 21 December shows the tanker is near the port of Galveston, while Automatic Identification System ship-tracking feeds from a maritime data service presently places the vessel about 50 miles offshore.
The tanker Skipper was seized by US authorities on the tenth of December and has been blacklisted by multiple nations. When it was seized, it was incorrectly flying the ensign of Guyana.
This seizure was succeeded by the capture of a another tanker, the Centuries tanker. This ship – unlike the Skipper – was not yet under official restrictions when it was brought under American control.
US authorities are currently targeting a third ship, which has been named by the maritime risk group a risk firm as the Bella 1 tanker. President Donald Trump stated yesterday that “we’ll end up getting it”.
Writing on X, the TankerTrackers group noted the vessel Bella 1 has been “underway for over a month” and, at an average speed of 11 nautical miles per hour, may have “another 28 to 35 days of fuel remaining unless her velocity drops”.
The group further stated the tanker is “probably heading south-east towards South Africa”.
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