The US military has seized a Venezuela-linked oil tanker in the Indian Ocean. This move shows Washington’s firm decision to enforce its oil blockade on Venezuela, even "halfway around the world," said the Pentagon on Monday. The tanker, named Aquila II and flagged by Panama, was carrying 700,000 barrels of crude oil. It had left Venezuelan waters in early January, according to records from Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA cited by Reuters. The Pentagon said, "The Aquila II was operating in defiance of President Trump’s established quarantine of sanctioned vessels in the Caribbean. It ran, and we followed." US forces tracked the ship from the Caribbean Sea to the Indian Ocean. Footage released by the Pentagon showed heavily armed US soldiers boarding the vessel from a helicopter. The Pentagon declared, "No other nation on planet Earth has the capability to enforce its will through any domain. By land, air, or sea, our Armed Forces will find you and deliver justice. You will run out of fuel long before you will outrun us." The US began seizing Venezuelan oil ships in December and abducted Venezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro last month. Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodriguez signed a law to open the country’s state-controlled oil sector to foreign investment. Still, US forces continue to seize Venezuelan oil ships. President Trump and his aides have said they aim to take control of Venezuela’s oil, wrongly claiming the oil reserves belong to the US. Trump told oil executives, "One of the things the United States gets out of this will be even lower energy prices." Venezuela has transferred tens of millions of oil barrels to the US under an energy deal, with Rodriguez stating that her country received $300 million from oil sales. US Energy Secretary Chris Wright announced plans to visit Venezuela soon to "start the dialogue" on the future of PDVSA, Venezuela's state oil company.