FSO Nabarima

FSO Nabarima is a floating storage and offloading vessel, without motors, that is permanently moored offshore of Venezuela at the Corocoro oil field in the Gulf of Paria and whose main purpose was to receive the petroleum produced by the mixed company Petrowarao, in Delta Amacuro state.

[1] Nabarima, with a capacity of 1.4 million barrels of oil, was built in 2005 by Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea for ConocoPhillips, which at the time operated the Corocoro field.

[8][9] According to Eudis Girot, the leader of the Unitary Federation of Petroleum Workers of Venezuela, there was about 9 feet (2.7 m) of water in the lower decks of Nabarima by early September and the Associated Press reported that she continued to list about 5 degrees to starboard, though PDVSA said that her condition was "satisfactory" and Eni considered the vessel "stable.

On 1 September, Girot said that conditions faced by the three workers on board were subhuman since they did not have lifeboats, the fire extinguishers had expired, the bathrooms had collapsed, they had little food and coexisted with rats.

[1] Nabarima remained listing in mid-October, when Reuters reported that crews were undertaking repairs to the ship while Eni continued discussions with the US government "in order to prevent any sanctions risk.

"[4] On 16 October, the United States embassy in Trinidad and Tobago declared that the sanctions against Venezuela were not designed to affect "security, environmental or humanitarian activities".