Venezuela’s state oil firm PDVSA is loading crude onto tankers and keeping them anchored offshore as floating storage, Reuters reports. The move follows U.S. President Donald Trump’s naval oil blockade and tanker seizures,

President Donald Trump said Monday that the U.S. is still actively pursuing an oil tanker linked to Venezuela, but that he's confident the vessel will be seized.

Under international law, Venezuela has control over its own oil — but its efforts to nationalize its oil industry in 2007 did result in arbitration.

President Donald Trump said the United States could keep or sell the oil it had seized off the coast of Venezuela in recent weeks.

Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro has said that President Donald Trump's threats against his nation are "simply a warmongering and colonialist pretense." Speaking in Caracas on Wednesday, he said that Trump's aim was regime change to impose a "puppet government that wouldn't last 47 hours,

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump on Monday delivered a new warning to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro as the U.S. Coast Guard steps up efforts to interdict oil tankers in the Caribbean Sea as part of the Republican administration’s escalating pressure campaign on the government in Caracas.

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he is leaving the possibility of war with Venezuela on the table. "I don't rule it out, no," he told NBC News' Kristen Welker in a phone interview. It comes after the president ordered a "blockade" of sanctioned oil tankers coming and going from Venezuela.

President Trump’s Venezuela blockade threat sparked confusion. This article explains the overlooked legal and energy context behind his claims—and why it matters now.

Surrounded by his top national security aides, Donald Trump took aim at Venezuela again amid the bitter row over its oil tankers, at least two of which the US has seized off the Venezuela coast

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump told NBC News that war remains possible with Venezuela, a country whose leadership he labeled a terrorist regime and which he has targeted militarily because of alleged drug smuggling. "I don’t rule it out, no," Trump told NBC on Dec. 18 in a phone interview.

Lawmakers attend an extraordinary session to discuss a bill opposing measures by U.S. President Donald Trump that restrict sanctioned oil tankers from entering and leaving Venezuela, in Caracas, Venezuela,