Venezuela’s state oil firm PDVSA diverted two crude cargoes set to discharge at Cuba’s Matanzas terminal, Refinitiv Eikon data and company documents showed on Tuesday, as a fire that devastated 40% of the island’s main storage facility continued for a fifth day. Lightning on Friday set one crude storage tank at the 2.4-million-barrel facility ablaze, later spreading to three others, resulting in massive power outages. As most of Venezuela’s oil shipments to Cuba typically go to Matanzas – a key facility for distributing domestic crude and for receiving imports – the accident has forced PDVSA to find other ports to unload. Cuba-flagged tanker Maria Cristina, which was discharging Venezuelan crude at Matanzas when the fire started, is heading to Santiago to deliver its remaining cargo, according to the Eikon data and documents. Another Venezuelan crude cargo, onboard Cuba-flagged tanker Vilma, was diverted on Saturday to […]