{"id":27884,"date":"2026-03-09T02:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T02:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/27884\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T02:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T02:59:10","slug":"venezuelan-oil-flows-to-europe-begin-with-trafigura-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/27884\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuelan oil flows to Europe begin with Trafigura sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vitol is separately shipping a cargo of Venezuelan oil to its Saras refinery in Italy as part of the deal, several industry sources told Reuters earlier on Thursday. Vitol declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>The vessel Poliegos is set to start loading crude oil from Venezuela&#8217;s Jose terminal around January 29, data from ship tracking service Kpler showed. The vessel will be loaded by Vitol, a source familiar with the matter said.<\/p>\n<p>Vitol has also struck deals <a aria-label=\"content\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bairdmaritime.com\/shipping\/tankers\/vitol-to-load-venezuelan-fuel-oil-under-us-backed-supply-deal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">to sell cargoes of Venezuelan oil to US refiners Valero Energy and Phillips 66<\/a>, Reuters reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The trading houses have been marketing Venezuelan oil to refiners in India and elsewhere too.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Pietro Lombardi, Shariq Khan, Ahmad Ghaddar, Arathy Somasekhar and Georgina McCartney; Editing by Alex Lawler, Elaine Hardcastle and Nia Williams)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vitol is separately shipping a cargo of Venezuelan oil to its Saras refinery in Italy as part of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[125],"tags":[190,197,191,193,510,8981,4533,195,423,17,196,74,8983,194,158],"class_list":["post-27884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vitol","tag-asia","tag-europe","tag-india","tag-latin-america","tag-north-america","tag-phillips-66","tag-repsol","tag-singapore","tag-spain","tag-switzerland","tag-trafigura","tag-united-states","tag-valero-energy-corporation","tag-venezuela","tag-vitol"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116196983598252100","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27884","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=27884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}