Following the Corocoro shutdown, "Nabarima" was abandoned with about 1.3 million barrels of crude aboard. During months, opposition leaders and petroleum union leaders denounced that the tanker was tilted, was in risk to sink and create a significant environmental disaster. Nicolás Maduro government's spokespeople denied this. "Nabarima" is a double-hulled tanker, which offers certain security. According to complaints of PDVSA workers, its main process, control, auxiliary and security equipments were inoperative due to "lack of maintenance and management incompetence", being operated with a skeleton crew, whereas the tanker is designed to be operated by 80 workers. In July 2020 "Nabarima" began listing to starboard, followed by a leak into her engine room the following month that failed bilge pumps were unable to pump out. According to Eudis Girot, the leader of the Unitary Federation of Petroleum Workers of Venezuela, there was about of water in the lower decks of "Nabarima" by early September and the Associated Press reported that she continued to list about 5 degrees to starboard, though PDVSA said that her condition was "satisfactory" and Eni considered the vessel "stable." Girot denounced the possibility of an environmental disaster to happen. The ship was almost filled to its capacity of 1.4 million barrels of crude, about five times the amount the Exxon Valdez spilled in 1989. Critics of PDVSA have said the tanker is an example of the government's corruption and mismanagement. At the time, Eni was negotiating with the United States Treasury Department for permission to offload the oil on board.