Sixth oil tanker seized by U.S. military, WSJ reports

U.S. forces boarded a sixth oil tanker near Venezuela, signaling an escalation of the Trump administration’s crackdown on the “dark fleet” transporting sanctioned oil, The Wall Street Journal’s Shelby Holliday and Costas Paris report, citing people familiar with the matter. The action follows the seizure of a fifth tanker and reflects continued efforts to restrict Venezuela’s oil sales in coordination with the country’s interim government. Publicly traded companies in the oil energy space include BP (BP), Chevron (CVX), ConocoPhillips (COP), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Shell (SHEL) and TotalEnergies (TTE). Publicly traded companies in the drillers and oil services space include Baker Hughes (BKR), Halliburton (HAL), Nabors Industries (NBR), Noble Corp. (NE), SLB (SLB), Transocean (RIG) and Weatherford (WFRD).