Sonangol-Cabinda Vessel Reviews and Specifications

(Reuters) – A tanker carrying over 1 million barrels of U.S. light crude finished discharging on Monday after a 100-day wait related to payment delays from Venezuela’s state-run PDVSA to oil major BP Plc, according to Thomson Reuters vessel tracking data. PDVSA in March awarded BP a tender to import up to 8.2 million barrels of U.S. crude for the second quarter, but long payment delays have since April created bottlenecks to discharge about a dozen cargoes, boosting the costs for the oil. The Suezmax tanker Sonangol Cabinda, which arrived at the Caribbean island of Curacao in mid-June from the U.S. port of Beaumont in Texas, was finally authorized to enter PDVSA’s Bullen Bay terminal on Sept. 23, the data showed. https://gcaptain.com/bp-tanker-carrying-us-crude-discharged-at-curacao-after-100-day-wait/