Oil Storage Tanker Threatening To Sink Off Venezuela

PortandTerminal.com, September 1, 2020

A Floating Storage and Offloading (FSO) tanker off the coast of Venezuela is taking on water and threatening to sink, according to Eudis Girot, the head of the Unitary Federation of Petroleum Workers of Venezuela (FUTPV).

In a social media post Sunday, Girot warned that the FSO Nabarima has about 1.3 million barrels of crude oil on board. She in “very poor condition,” he said, and she has about nine feet of water in her lower decks. Gidot appended photos showing flooding in the interior of a large vessel.

The oil storage tanker Nabarima is at major risk of sinking in the gulf of paria. These photos reportedly show the lower decks onboard the tanker filled with water. The storage tanker is apparently listing in the water. #Venezuela pic.twitter.com/K1fuXtafa4

— CNW (@ConflictsW) August 30, 2020

María Gabriela Hernández, a member of the opposition National Assembly (AN), said in a press conference last week that the vessel is listing and that crewmembers report no efforts to transfer the cargo to a tanker to minimize risk. 

Venezuelan state-owned oil and natural gas company PDVSA has not yet commented publicly on any developments aboard the FSO Nabarima

The Nabarima FSO is leaking and is listing. It has ~1 million barrels of crude. It is anchored in the Gulf of Paria. It is a potential ecological bomb that would damage Vzla, TyT and the islands to the north in the path of the marine current#OOTT pic.twitter.com/LlSvrlPwCv

— David Morán (@morandavid) August 31, 2020

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