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Despite having the largest oil reserves in the world, Venezuela has experienced fuel shortages several times throughout its history due to both economic and political reasons. The general strike of 2002–2003 resulted in the stoppage of the oil industry, which caused fuel shortages domestically, and Nicolás Maduro's administration has ...
PDVSA Gas, Isla de Margarita. As of 2003, Venezuela had 77.5 billion barrels (1.232 × 10 10 m 3) of conventional oil reserves according to PDVSA figures, the largest in the Western Hemisphere and making up approximately half the total. This puts Venezuela as fifth in the world in proven reserves of conventional oil.
Venezuela has been producing oil for nearly a century and was an OPEC founder-member. In 2005, Venezuela produced 162 million tons of oil, which is 4.1% of world's total production. By the oil production Venezuela ranks seventh in the world. [4] Venezuela is the world's eight oil exporter and fifth largest net exporter. [4]
Over a hundred employees at Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA, plus others in the oil ministry and parts of the public sector, have been forced to resign over their political views since last ...
Venezuela production of crude oil in oil barrels, 1965-2019. By 1940 Venezuela was the third largest producer of crude oil in the world with more than 27 million tonnes per year - just slightly less than the production in the USSR. [14] In 1941, Isaías Medina Angarita, a former army general from the Venezuelan Andes, was indirectly elected ...
In 2023, Venezuela held 195 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of natural gas reserves, making up 73% of South America's total. Most of this gas is associated with crude oil, with 80% produced as a by-product. Despite these vast reserves, much of Venezuela's natural gas is underutilized, used to support mature oil fields or flared due to inadequate ...
The Coordinadora Democrática, led by the business federation Fedecámaras and the trade union federation Confederación de Trabajadores de Venezuela (CTV), called for a fourth paro cívico, which turned out to be the most serious, and is known as the 2002–2003 oil strike, to begin on 2 December 2002.
PDVSA (1 C, 15 P) Pages in category "Oil and gas companies of Venezuela" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.