{"id":391009,"date":"2020-12-23T08:54:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T03:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=391009"},"modified":"2020-12-23T09:55:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T04:25:24","slug":"venezuela-resumes-direct-oil-shipments-to-china-despite-us-sanctions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/venezuela-resumes-direct-oil-shipments-to-china-despite-us-sanctions-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela resumes direct oil shipments to China despite US sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Venezuela has resumed direct shipments of oil to China after U.S. sanctions sent the trade underground for more than a year, according to Refinitiv Eikon vessel-tracking data and internal documents from state company Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA). <\/p>\n<p>Chinese state companies China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) and its listed subsidiary PetroChina &#8211; long among PDVSA&#8217;s top customers &#8211; stopped loading crude and fuel at Venezuelan ports in August 2019 after Washington extended its sanctions on PDVSA to include any companies trading with the Venezuelan state firm. https:\/\/reut.rs\/36ZyATv <\/p>\n<p>The imposition of the sanctions was part of a push by the Trump administration to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, but they failed to completely halt the South American nation&#8217;s oil exports or to loosen Maduro&#8217;s grip on power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Venezuela has resumed direct shipments of oil to China after U.S. sanctions sent the trade underground for more than a year, according to Refinitiv Eikon vessel-tracking data and internal documents from state company Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA). Chinese state companies China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) and its listed subsidiary PetroChina &#8211; long among PDVSA&#8217;s top customers &#8211; stopped loading crude and fuel at Venezuelan ports in August 2019 after Washington extended its sanctions on PDVSA to include any companies trading with the Venezuelan state firm. https:\/\/reut.rs\/36ZyATv The imposition of the sanctions was part of a push by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}