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U.S. forces on Wednesday seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela , President Donald Trump said.

"We've just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela — a large tanker, very large, the largest one ever seized actually," Trump said during a meeting in the Roosevelt Room at the White House .

The president declined to provide information on who owned the tanker or its destination, but said it was "seized for a very good reason."

The tanker has been identified as the Skipper, according to Matt Smith, head U.S. analyst at energy consulting firm Kpler.

Skipper is a Guyana-flagged "Very Large Crude Carrier," or VLCC, that was loaded covertly with 1.1 million barrels of oil in mid-November, Smith

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