{"id":19706,"date":"2020-10-20T03:48:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T00:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/confusion-surrounds-status-of-listing-offshore-oil-vessel-off-venezuela\/19706\/"},"modified":"2020-10-20T03:48:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T00:48:56","slug":"confusion-surrounds-status-of-listing-offshore-oil-vessel-off-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/confusion-surrounds-status-of-listing-offshore-oil-vessel-off-venezuela\/19706\/","title":{"rendered":"Confusion Surrounds Status of Listing Offshore Oil Vessel Off Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>The FSO Nabarima, a floating storage and offloading vessel, is currently anchored in the Gulf of Paria between Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago and reportedly contains 1.3 million barrels of crude oil. To put that in perspective, that\u2019s about 55 million gallons of crude.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Photos <a href=\"https:\/\/gcaptain.com\/photo-shows-fso-nabarima-with-severe-list-off-venezuela\/\">published last Friday<\/a> by the Trinidad and Tobago-based non-governmental environmental group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FFOSTT\/?__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARABMppaD0f6Wg7LULD47vlF-tatOxfRk4AIEJqiP9B8wTSOpg-_Fr9RBUd2aNF-GYeb13PgbSmRfie-yy9XyFOpp8yRXY1mW8HBv8_brXrX32_Y12GGJPc1kb2VuK700QL5Z4bMOJyF-l884RiOXy6MzwEW9u_0B-djFlga0Nzcq-LVovKOYis2boaTb04DKDqWuIipsFvwghuyL6yN6kMraFEIgzF6f7lySK9uDE-4jMa_nK9rd96cUYU9jlxMLRmcPlFlDfBCx2uB4FwnOkJADMd7jZ6y1wPvDHH_OqmwBgigrlaxTWHwoaoz2dNRrGQTMxUUh7K_tnGUOdrwYt0Hy5zz&amp;__xts__%5B1%5D=68.ARDnTl_CBBoAlqM-bQKd7-sn6DSu6MV381gN3a3d537rZsWtiBHXmcwNlwReDKE2cig6n7Mn4HWu0kBY8pTR2ChE6JVnu__M2ym7RKFSqA_Akkkq39w3uXP1XONsiK3d6dWGrlhCcEkAKYvgfX5b9jVCOw_uDtHSF4YXNy4nMCPQdjJ8zfwTY4cmQb55jYk7gRrfTJWk0c5BiY1qMLnsYspXgWA9V-Sy4t03pWcvY8Mbls5pAFRx-FJlUVYAmAwGqZm3ZVwfLj4U6aHibZ-aMUAQiYt22laAzc-GkTUxB3uaYmxhwVNUyMg7ddlugb-XqwLe853e_y8p5a6OElWDG2QtBfkm&amp;__tn__=kC-R&amp;eid=ARCoorcmOllMGkfd2SWMu70BhT-boVLciYTIQxx-QhuZshOEcygaGj5g56sldSudJdBOz3V65OD2vRIK&amp;hc_ref=ARTy490r5wmI92pJnP4wnz8mEF6XZsA5umaOWAdGdGN5wiJJeUA5_EpIoNnv1DYqHTI&amp;fref=nf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fishermen and Friends of the Sea (FFOS)<\/a> showed the vessel with a <a href=\"https:\/\/gcaptain.com\/photo-shows-fso-nabarima-with-severe-list-off-venezuela\/\">heavy list to starboard<\/a>, raising serious concerns regarding its condition.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>A Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/us-pdvsa-eni-vessel\/idled-venezuelan-floating-oil-facility-under-repairs-amid-environmental-concerns-source-idUKKBN2712H5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report<\/a> from Friday, however, citing an anonymous Venezuelan official with knowledge of the matter, said the list was due to repair work that was being conducted on the vessel\u2019s valves.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><script async=\"1\" defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v8.0\" nonce=\"th5fVYev\" type=\"0003ac91681534271190a0a5-text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>While this could be the case, FFOS warns not to trust \u201cblatant and repeated lies\u201d from the Venezuelan government.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>A statement earlier Monday from FFOS indicated that, based on sources in Venezuela, that the FSO Nabarima had been temporarily stabilized after water was pumped out of the vessel\u2019s ballast tanks, thereby reducing the list.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>An update from the group, however, retracted this statement after, according to FFSO, it was determined that photos shared with the group by Venezuelan sources, which showed the vessel with a more even keel, apparently may have not been current.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cpropaganda,\u201d as FFOS called it, raises more questions than it answers regarding the vessel\u2019s status.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the photographs taken by ourselves on the 16th of October there is a huge rust spot on the port side of the vessel\u2019s hull , which is not evident on the pictures sent to us by our Venezuelan contact [on October 19],\u201d the update said.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs such, it is our respectful view that the pictures sent to us today were taken at a far earlier date,\u201d the update said.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>gCaptain is unable to independently verify the images, the condition of the vessel, or whether or not the list was the result of valve repair work onboard the facility.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The FSO Nabarima, which is controlled by Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA with Italy\u2019s Eni as a minority stakeholder, has been idled since early 2019 due U.S. sanctions on PDVSA as part of the Trump Administration\u2019s pressure campaign on the Venezuelan government under President Nicolas Maduro. It\u2019s these circumstances that have also made it difficult to offload crude from the vessel.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese allegedly fake photos are misleading and point to a greater risk that the Maduro regime are determined to cover this up and deceive fearful stakeholders on the truth,\u201d Fishermen and Friends of the Sea said in today\u2019s update.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFFOS urgently await our Governments \u2018expert\u2019 report and urge the Institute of Marine Affairs, who will be on this excursion to perform a fingerprint analysis on the oil, so that in the event of a spill, we would know whether the oil came from the FSO Nabarima. We also urge our Minister of Foreign Affairs to consider the placement of someone with expertise in ship maintenance and repair onto this team of experts to ensure that a proper understanding of the vessel\u2019s state is obtained and possible permanent solutions are advised,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>gCaptain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FSO Nabarima, a floating storage and offloading vessel, is currently anchored in the Gulf of Paria between Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago and reportedly contains 1.3 million barrels of crude oil. To put that in perspective, that\u2019s about 55 million gallons of crude. Photos published last Friday by the Trinidad and Tobago-based non-governmental environmental &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[12473,2105,1131,166,3364,12474,112,549],"class_list":["post-19706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-world","tag-confusion","tag-listing","tag-offshore","tag-oil","tag-status","tag-surrounds","tag-venezuela","tag-vessel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/19707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}