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Hugo Chávez’s mid-2000s reassertion of state control over Venezuela’s oil sector and Nicolás Maduro’s continuation of that policy led to the effective loss or forced reduction of foreign companies’ op...
Available reporting does not provide a single, authoritative cumulative dollar figure for all assets Venezuela has seized or nationalized since Hugo Chávez took office in 1999; instead, contemporary a...
Available reporting does not list foreign oil companies whose operations inside Venezuela were seized in the recent U.S. operation; reporting centers on a U.S. seizure of a tanker (the Skipper) carryi...
Reporting reviewed finds no clear, documented cases of investors or U.S. companies publicly announcing to take equity stakes in energy projects since 2024; instead the record shows policy-level discus...
Venezuela carried out a wholesale nationalization of its oil industry effective 1 January 1976, converting foreign concessionaires into state-controlled affiliates under PDVSA and replacing operators ...
U.S. upstream and service-sector participation in Vaca Muerta is clearly present at the company-investor and infrastructure level—most notably through Continental Resources’ recent acquisitions and Ch...
Venezuela’s oil nationalizations unfolded in two major phases: the sweeping state takeover of concessions in 1976 that created PDVSA and absorbed the concessionaires that had operated fields across La...
Operators and drilling contractors commonly active in regions with significant rig activity include major oil companies such as ExxonMobil, Occidental, Chevron, Shell and BP as bidders/operators in th...