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USA prepares for intercept more ships carrying Venezuelan oil following the seizure of an oil tanker on Wednesday, as pressure mounts on the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, as reported this Thursday by Reuters citing six sources.
White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt reported this Thursday that the intercepted ship, named Skipperit will be transferred this week to a US portwhere the authorities will take possession of your oil cargo.
For her part, the Secretary of Homeland Security of the United States, Kristi Noemconfirmed this Thursday that this seizure It is part of the Trump Administration operation against the Maduro “regime.” “It was a successful operation led by the president to ensure that we are confronting a regime that systematically covers up and floods our country with lethal drugs and kills the next generation of Americans,” Noem stressed.
Today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations, and the United States Coast Guard, with support from the Department of War, executed a seizure warrant for a crude oil tanker used to transport sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran. For multiple… pic.twitter.com/dNr0oAGl5x
— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@Agpambondi) December 10, 2025
The Department of Justice had executed the order to seize the ship for its links to sanctioned Iranian entities since 2019.
This action coincides with the US deployment in Caribbean waters of at least 12 warships, a nuclear submarine, planes, helicopters and drones, as well as two aircraft carriers, the USS Gerald R. Ford and the Iwo Jima.
Wednesday’s seizure has put alerts shipowners, operators and maritime agencies involved in the transportation of Venezuelan crude oil, and many are rethinking whether to sail from Venezuelan waters in the coming days as planned.
Blow to the ‘ghost fleet’
According to sources cited by Reuters, they are expected more direct US interventions in the coming weeks against ships that transport Venezuelan oil and other countries subject to US sanctions such as Iran.
In fact, the Trump Administration has already developed a list of the most sanctioned oil tankers for possible seizure.
The US Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security had been planning these seizures for months.
A reduction or suspension of Venezuelan oil exportsthe main source of income for Venezuela, would affect the finances of the Maduro Government.
This new line of action by the Trump Administration to increase pressure on Maduro focuses on the activities of the so-called ‘ ghost fleet of tankers that transports sanctioned crude oil to China, the largest buyer of crude oil from Venezuela and Iran.
According to sources cited by Reuters, the same ship from this ‘ghost fleet’ usually makes several separate trips on behalf of Iran, Venezuela and Russia.
Faced with this growing pressure from the US on his regime, Maduro had a telephone conversation this Thursday with Putin, who gave him all his support.
The two leaders held a phone call in which Putin expressed his solidarity with the Venezuelan people and reaffirmed his support for Maduro’s policies, according to a Kremlin statement.
A conversation and an endorsement that “does not worry Trump”as Karoline Leavitt told the media this Thursday.