{"id":3108,"date":"2026-02-12T17:40:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T17:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/3108\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T17:40:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T17:40:05","slug":"vitol-trafigura-line-up-india-and-china-buyers-for-venezuelan-crude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/3108\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitol, Trafigura line up India and China buyers for Venezuelan crude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Second-half March delivery<\/p>\n<p>Another source said Vitol and Trafigura are offering cargoes for delivery in the second half of March. On Sunday, Vitol loaded the first cargo of naphtha from the US to Venezuela onto the Panamax-sized Hellespont Protector.<\/p>\n<p>The vessel is expected to arrive at Venezuela&#8217;s Port of Jose on January 28, shipping data on Kpler showed. Naphtha is used to thin Venezuela&#8217;s heavy crude oil and make it easier to move and process.<\/p>\n<p>The imminent resumption of Venezuelan oil exports has offset concerns of a potential supply disruption in Iran to cap gains in global oil futures.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Nidhi Verma in New Delhi, Siyi Liu, Chen Aizhu and Florence Tan in Singapore; Additional reporting by Julia Payne in London and Shariq Khan in New York; Editing by Jan Harvey)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Second-half March delivery Another source said Vitol and Trafigura are offering cargoes for delivery in the second half&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[125],"tags":[190,351,197,191,192,193,510,468,198,195,17,196,74,194,158],"class_list":["post-3108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vitol","tag-asia","tag-china","tag-europe","tag-india","tag-indian-oil-corporation","tag-latin-america","tag-north-america","tag-petrochina","tag-reliance-industries","tag-singapore","tag-switzerland","tag-trafigura","tag-united-states","tag-venezuela","tag-vitol"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3108","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=3108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}