BP (BP.L) returned to trading heavy fuel oil from Venezuela, with a tanker carrying the product for the company already loaded and headed to the US, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday, citing a document for the shipment.
With Houston in Texas as the primary final destination, the Monte Lema tanker has finished loading 400,000 barrels of heavy fuel oil sourced from Venezuela's oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela, or PDVSA, the report noted.
The London-listed oil and gas company follows Trafigura Group and Vitol Group in returning to trading oil from Venezuela after the removal of Nicolás Maduro as the country's president.
BP and PDVSA did not immediately respond to requests for comments from.
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