Third of the five Iranian oil tankers enters Venezuela territorial waters

Third of the five Iranian oil tankers enters Venezuela territorial waters.

Venezuela’s Telesur television network said the Iran-flagged tanker, Petunia, crossed the Caribbean Sea earlier on Tuesday

Third of the five Iranian oil tankers

Iran announced five Iranian oil tankers carrying fuel would reach Venezuela amid US sanctions on both the countries.

Oil starved Latin American country celebrates the Iranian fuel supply.

The third tanker reached the country’s exclusive economic zone.

Venezuelan navy escorted Iranian oil tanker.

The vessel carries near to 50,000 tons of gasoline and related products, destined to restart the oil production in the South-America country.

Petunia followed the route taken in recent days by two other vessels, Fortune and Forest, which are reportedly discharging at Venezuela’s state-run ports.

Fortune, the first of five Iranian tankers carrying 1.53 million barrels of gasoline and alkylate reached Venezuelan waters late Saturday to ease the Latin American nation’s fuel crunch.

Forest, the second tanker in the flotilla docked on Tuesday at a port serving the Venezuelan National Oil Company (PDVSA)’s second largest refinery, Cardon, on the country’s western coast.

The remaining ships in the fleet — Faxon and Clavel — are scheduled to arrive in the gasoline-starved Latin American country in the next few days.

The US administration in Washington had imposed sanctions on Iran and Venezuela although US sanctions have no legal validity as per international law.

GTV