Valero charters tanker for Gulf Coast storage amid pipeline outage - sources

Reuters

Published May 09, 2021 09:41PM ET

Updated May 09, 2021 10:05PM ET

By Laura Sanicola

(Reuters) -Valero Energy chartered an oil products' tanker for storage in the U.S. Gulf Coast on Friday amid a cyber attack that shut the Colonial pipeline, the biggest U.S. fuel pipeline, two sources familiar with the matter said on Sunday.

The tanker, called the Nave Titan, is currently in the Mississippi River in southern Louisiana, according to Refinitiv Eikon shipping data.

Nave Titan can hold up to 330,000 barrels of oil, according to the tanker data.