The first naphtha cargo for Venezuela as part of an oil deal agreed between Caracas and Washington this month arrived on Friday in the country's waters in a tanker chartered by trading house Vitol, ship tracking data showed.

A State Department team traveled to Venezuela to hep with the release.

The seizure comes as President Trump is set to meet​ with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado Thursday at the White House.

U.S. forces in the Caribbean Sea have seized another sanctioned oil tanker the Trump administration says has ties to Venezuela, part of a broader U.S. effort to take control of the South American country’s oil.

The only oil tankers to leave Venezuela since the arrest of its former leader, Nicolás Maduro, have been bound for the U.S. The post Tankers leaving Venezuela since Maduro's capture US bound: Report appeared first on Straight Arrow News.

Emmanuel Macron says the oil tanker was boarded and searched ‘subject to international sanctions’

Britain provided tracking and monitoring support for a French operation to board a sanctioned Russian oil tanker in a bid to choke off the funds that fuel Russia's invasion of Ukraine, UK defence minister John Healey said on Thursday.