Citgo Petroleum, the U.S.-based refiner formerly owned by Venezuela’s state oil firm PDVSA, has bought its first Venezuelan crude under U.S. control, anonymous sources with knowledge of the situation have told Reuters. Citgo was one of Venezuela’s top crude buyers until 2019, when the first Trump Administration slapped sanctions on Venezuela and PDVSA. Citgo has been denied access and dealings with Venezuelan crude even in subsequent reliefs of the sanctions, such as the license for U.S. supermajor Chevron to operate in Venezuela and export crude to the United States. Following the capture of Nicolas Maduro and the U.S. taking control of the Venezuelan crude sales, Citgo is again able to buy crude from the world’s top oil reserves holder. So, Citgo has bought a cargo of 500,000 barrels of Venezuelan crude from commodity trader Trafigura, one of the two global trading houses picked by the U.S. Administration to help market Venezuela’s oil, according to Reuters’ sources.