The American oil trading and supply firm George E. Warren LLC has agreed to acquire a shipment of one million barrels of Venezuelan Merey heavy crude oil, which will be shipped between late April and early May, according to a maritime transport document seen by Reuters.
The licenses Americanswhich increasingly allow transactions in the Venezuelan energy sector, as well as the recent negotiations between marketing companies and refineries with the Venezuelan state-owned PDVSA, andThey are intended to diversify the group of companies that acquire Venezuelan oil, following a key supply agreement agreed between Caracas and Washington last January.
George E. Warren declined to comment.
