Oil

The United States has completed its first sale of $500 million worth of Venezuelan oil, several outlets reported Thursday citing unnamed government sources.

Denmark provided U.S. forces support as they intercepted an oil tanker for violations of sanctions, a Danish government official confirmed.

Two Chinese oil supertankers on their way to pick up Venezuelan oil made U-turns and headed back to Asia, reports indicate.

President Donald Trump said on Sunday that Cuba is being cut off from oil and money, and urged the communist-controlled nation to make a deal.

President Donald Trump meets with the executives of oil and gas companies on Friday, January 9.

Acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez met with China’s ambassador to the country, Lan Hu, on Thursday, in an effort to reassure the chavistas’ communist patrons that their prime position in Venezuelan politics would be respected following the arrest of longtime dictator Nicolás Maduro.

President Donald Trump advocated for taking oil as a cost of liberating a country in the chapter “Take The Oil” of his 2011 bestselling book “Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again.”

President Donald Trump will host 17 oil companies at the White House on Friday to discuss investment opportunities to help restore oil infrastructure in Venezuela.

Wednesday’s seizure of a rogue Russian-flagged tanker in the North Atlantic marked a significant escalation of U.S. efforts to shut down the dangerous “shadow fleet” of sanctions-defying invisible ships created by Russia, China, Iran, and other hostile powers – a fleet that poses serious threats to the environment, maritime safety, legitimate global shipping, and the world’s economic security.

Venezuela’s state-owned oil company PDVSA announced on Wednesday it is now holding negotiations with the United States for the sale of oil to America.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that Venezuela will only purchase “American made products” with the money they receive from the new oil deal.

Oil industry analysts expect China to replace its oil imports from Venezuela with increased purchases of Iranian crude, following the arrest of China’s ally Nicolas Maduro by U.S. forces over the weekend.

The Trump administration will sell Venezuelan oil “indefinitely” and control the proceeds, Energy Secretary Chris Wright announced Wednesday, as part of the administration’s broader strategy to manage Venezuela’s oil exports and rebuild its energy sector.

The U.S. on Wednesday seized a rogue Russian-flagged tanker linked to Venezuelan oil in the North Atlantic Sea. British military support was included in the perfectly executed commando-style boarding.

President Donald Trump announced that the “interim authorities” in charge of Venezuela would be giving between 30 and 50 million “Barrels of High Quality, Sanctioned Oil” to the United States.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a longtime ally of deposed and incarcerated narco-terrorist dictator Nicolás Maduro, is looking for a role in the crisis currently unfolding in Venezuela – and hoping to protect the investments Turkey made with the corrupt socialist regime.

Ship tracking services detected around a dozen ships identified as loaded oil tankers departing from Venezuela in the first week of 2026, all of them targeted by U.S. sanctions.

President Donald Trump announced that United States oil companies will “fix” Venezuela’s “badly broken” oil infrastructure after the capture of the country’s former dictator Nicolás Maduro.

On Saturday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” President Donald Trump discussed the capture of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela and stated that he has a good relationship with China’s Xi Jinping, and “there’s not going to be

The Iranian regime — reeling from mass protests that could be the most severe threat to the tyranny of the ayatollahs since the 1979 Islamic revolution — denounced President Donald Trump’s arrest of Venezuelan narco-terrorist dictator Nicolas Maduro in the harshest terms, and demanded United Nations intervention on Maduro’s behalf.

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil, on behalf of Nicolás Maduro, thanked Russia for its “valuable support” of the socialist dictator amid the “illegal” actions of the U.S. in the Caribbean.

Maritime tracking data released on Monday showed that international oil tankers have dramatically scaled back loading activity at Venezuelan ports, fearful of a crackdown by the Trump administration on illegal sanctions-busting oil shipments.

President Donald Trump said Monday that “it would be smart” for Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro to give up power.

The governments of China and Russia issued impassioned statements in support of Nicolás Maduro’s narco-terrorist regime in Venezuela on Wednesday and Thursday, urging President Donald Trump to reconsider his regional actions protecting America’s national security.

President Donald Trump ordered a “total and complete” blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering or leaving Venezuela — increasing pressure on the socialist Maduro regime.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) stated that the blocking and seizing of sanctioned oil tankers around Venezuela “makes a lot of sense,” and sanctioned oil is helping countries like Iran and China and Russia are

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said on Monday that she would like to see an oil pipeline built through British Columbia to the West Coast, but if the pipeline is not built, she would consider shipping Alberta’s oil across the border through Montana, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington to reach Pacific ports.

The Islamist terror state of Iran accused the United States of “piracy” on Thursday in response to President Donald Trump revealing that U.S. authorities had seized a crude oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea accused of transporting sanctioned oil from Iran and its ally Venezuela.

Officials of Venezuela’s socialist Maduro regime claimed President Donald Trump “confessed” to having “stolen” a sanctioned oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday afternoon announced that the United States has seized an oil tanker bound for Cuba as it was sailing off the coast of Venezuela.

The Southern Transitional Council (STC), a secessionist group in Yemen, has seized control of the oil-rich provinces of Hadramout and Mahra, threatening to re-ignite the stalemated Yemeni civil war and potentially destabilize the region.

Russian President Vladimir Putin promised an “uninterrupted” supply of cheap oil to India after meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday, defying President Donald Trump’s effort to use tariff pressure to get India to stop funding Putin’s war machine in Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in New Delhi on Thursday for meetings with top officials, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi.