(Reuters) – More than 2 million barrels of U.S. light sweet crude sold by BP (BP.L) are stuck waiting to be paid before discharging at PDVSA’s terminal on the Caribbean island of Curacao, according to sources and Thomson Reuters vessel tracking data.
The cargoes started to be sent in late April as part of a tender awarded by PDVSA of Venezuela to BP and China Oil to import some 8 million barrels of West Texas Intermediate crude in the second quarter. But payment issues are causing delays.
(Reporting by Marianna Parraga in Houston and Sarah McFarlane in London; Editing by Terry Wade)
