Updates
March 20, 2019: off the east coast of South Africa. Destination now: Sikka, India.
February 21, 2019: update here. Off the coast of Venezuela; has new destination: South Africa.
Original Post
One can track the Abqaiq at this link.
- origin: SA RTA
- destination: VE JOT
- current position: just off the west coast of Morocco
Story at Platts. Data points:
- a Saudi state-owned tanker: the VLCC Abqaiq
- VLCC: very large crude carrier, capable of carrying two million bbls of crude oil
- half-full
- destination: Venezuela's main crude oil terminal, Jose, Venezuela
- departed the Yanbu port on the Red Sea on January 20, 2019
- to arrive at destination on February 11, 2019
- very unusual for Saudi to ship oil to Venezuela, although it has happened in the past
- Venezuela needs diluent to mix with heavy oil to make it possible to ship it
- Platt's suggests the Saudi tanker could have "entered" the wrong destination code
- half-full; possibly the VLCC is headed to Venezuela to fill the tanker, and then proceed to India; India's Reliance has previously used Bahri tankers to transport Venezuelan crude to its refineries on the west coast of India
Railbit, dilbt, shipbit, a dollar,
All for heavy oil, stand up and holler.
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Global Warming
Northern California, 2019
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