Powerful listen.

This survivor of the Maduro regime should be required viewing for every American and it should be played on every news station in America before anyone forms an opinion about the Venezuela op. pic.twitter.com/8nzPVFmbYc

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) January 8, 2026

The world’s criminals are on notice.

Early this morning, the @USCG executed a boarding and seizure of the Motor Tanker Olina in international waters east of the Caribbean Sea. As another "ghost fleet" tanker ship suspected of carrying embargoed oil, this vessel had departed… pic.twitter.com/vvS3u3nrvl

— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) January 9, 2026

will25u said:

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The world’s criminals are on notice.

Early this morning, the @USCG executed a boarding and seizure of the Motor Tanker Olina in international waters east of the Caribbean Sea. As another "ghost fleet" tanker ship suspected of carrying embargoed oil, this vessel had departed… pic.twitter.com/vvS3u3nrvl

— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) January 9, 2026

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When do we begin preventing these fill-ups at the source?

Maybe someone should share the memo with Team Ghost Fleet.

Ducks4brkfast said:

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will25u said:

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The world’s criminals are on notice.

Early this morning, the @USCG executed a boarding and seizure of the Motor Tanker Olina in international waters east of the Caribbean Sea. As another "ghost fleet" tanker ship suspected of carrying embargoed oil, this vessel had departed… pic.twitter.com/vvS3u3nrvl

— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) January 9, 2026

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When do we begin preventing these fill-ups at the source?

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I kinda like them full headed to houston or somewhere in the market lowering the price of russian oil.

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When do we begin preventing these fill-ups at the source?

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I was raised by Dad who worked in big oil for his entire career but these technical details are a bit beyond my ken because I don't know the sit rep on the ground.

First question: Storage capacity. How much do they have when exports are severely reduced? IDK.

Second question: If they have to stop the pumps, do they have the ability to restart them even with assistance from other countries? IDK.

Third question: Which military is going to protect VZ shipping sanctioned oil? Helluva question there.

aggiehawg said:

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When do we begin preventing these fill-ups at the source?

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I was raised by Dad who worked in big oil for his entire career but these technical details are a bit beyond my ken because I don't know the sit rep on the ground.

First question: Storage capacity. How much do they have when exports are severely reduced? IDK.

Second question: If they have to stop the pumps, do they have the ability to restart them even with assistance from other countries? IDK.

Third question: Which military is going to protect VZ shipping sanctioned oil? Helluva question there.

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I can speak to the second question. There are almost certainly storage tanks that the terminal uses to store/stage oil that is being produced in Venezuelan fields and transported by pipelines and possibly trucks to the tanks. The tanks might hold 250k-500k barrels each. Depending on how much oil is being produced from the various fields, those tanks will fill to capacity fairly quickly (likely in a few days or maybe a week). Once that happens the upstream fields will have to be shut in at the sources. Typically, this is not a huge problem but depending on the reservoir dynamics and geologic conditions of the reservoirs it could damage the reservoirs and reduce the rate of production or even eliminate production depending on the specific circumstances. But many of the wells will basically turn off and turn back on without too much problem. Of course, if there are shut in related issues there's a question about whether they have the gear and the people to deal with those issues, which could exacerbate the problem.

I dealt with this issue back in 2002 as a lawyer for Nexen Petroleum when the French-owned oil tanker Limburg was attacked by terrorists on October 6, 2002, off the coast of Yemen. The suicide bombing, attributed to al-Qaeda, occurred as the vessel was preparing to dock at the al-Dhabba oil terminal near Mukalla. Nexen ran the terminal for the Masila fields onshore Yemen and when the crew abandoned the vessel near our single point mooring buoy, which was how we loaded cargos from the terminal, the drifting vessel was a threat to our buoy and we had to run shut in scenarios in the event it hit our buoy.

Ok check out this from Ecuador I believe

Los ZURDOS 🇵🇸 de occidente llorando por Maduro.

Mientras tanto en Latinoamérica: pic.twitter.com/S6YsPeIHdq

— ELDUCK (@elduckpost) January 9, 2026