{"id":16341,"date":"2026-02-23T10:22:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/16341\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T10:22:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:22:34","slug":"vitol-offers-venezuelan-crude-oil-to-china-at-narrower-discount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/16341\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitol Offers Venezuelan Crude Oil to China at Narrower Discount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Vitol Group has offered Venezuelan cargoes to Chinese buyers at discounts of around $5 a barrel to ICE Brent, testing Asia\u2019s appetite for the South American nation\u2019s benchmark heavy, sour crude.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The cargoes would be delivered in the second half of April, according to traders familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified because they are not authorized to speak publicly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vitol Group has offered Venezuelan cargoes to Chinese buyers at discounts of around $5 a barrel to ICE&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[190,351,393,11302,11305,10622,231,11303,11304,158,11301,2567],"class_list":{"0":"post-16341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vitol","8":"tag-asia","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-energy","11":"tag-generic-1st-cl-future","12":"tag-greener-living","13":"tag-industries","14":"tag-markets","15":"tag-u-s-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","16":"tag-venezuela-oil","17":"tag-vitol","18":"tag-vitol-group-the","19":"tag-white-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}