{"id":657562,"date":"2026-01-08T12:07:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=657562"},"modified":"2026-01-08T12:07:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:37:17","slug":"us-seizes-russian-flagged-oil-tanker-in-atlantic-after-week-long-chase-how-did-it-unfold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-seizes-russian-flagged-oil-tanker-in-atlantic-after-week-long-chase-how-did-it-unfold\/","title":{"rendered":"US seizes Russian-flagged oil tanker in Atlantic after week-long chase | How did it unfold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US forces seized two Venezuela-linked oil tankers in the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday, including one sailing under the Russian flag, as part of the Trump administration&#8217;s aggressive approach to dominate oil flows in the Americas.<\/p>\n<p>Following Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro&#8217;s capture on Saturday during a military raid on Caracas, Washington is increasing the blockade of vessels ferrying sanctioned oil and going in and out of the South American nation, which is a member of the OPEC oil producers group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US forces seized two Venezuela-linked oil tankers in the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday, including one sailing under the Russian flag, as part of the Trump administration&#8217;s aggressive approach to dominate oil flows in the Americas. Following Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro&#8217;s capture on Saturday during a military raid on Caracas, Washington is increasing the blockade of vessels ferrying sanctioned oil and going in and out of the South American nation, which is a member of the OPEC oil producers group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657562","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}