Juan Viana, senior director for Oil and Gas/Energy at FTI Consulting: “It has been a long time since we have heard news about PDVSA, and the fact that the Maduro administration is looking into PDVSA may be a signal to the industry and the region. There has been a lot of noise about Venezuela’s oil potential and how to bring it back into the game. We have seen successful efforts from U.S. oil companies, like the recent Office of Foreign Assets Control’s General License 41, authorizing Chevron to resume limited extraction operations in Venezuela. Also, in early March, the media revealed that U.S. authorities were investigating companies trading Venezuelan oil in violation of sanctions. The scrutiny involves players operating across Latin America. It is worth highlighting that in the past decade, Latin America has…”
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