Trump’s Venezuela Oil Plan Runs Into Hard Reality
2 days ago · Venezuela’s oil is mostly extra-heavy crude from the Orinoco Belt, with breakeven costs above $80 per barrel—making it uneconomic at current prices and far less attractive …
Trump’s Plans for Venezuelan Oil Run Headlong Into Reality
3 days ago · But Mr. Trump’s grand plans for Venezuelan oil have already run headlong into reality, starting with the apparent reluctance of the major American oil companies to plunge …
Trump’s Venezuela Oil Plan Runs Into Hard Reality
2 days ago · Despite Trump’s pledge to hand U.S. firms control over Venezuelan oil sales, major oil companies remain wary due to extreme political risk. Venezuela’s oil is mostly extra-heavy …
Big Oil offers reality check to Trump’s Venezuela dream
3 days ago · Big Oil companies have injected a heavy dose of realism into U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to rapidly invest billions in Venezuela, pointing to complex security, commercial …
What the Big Oil executives told Trump about investing in ...
5 days ago · What rebuilding Venezuela's oil fields will mean for ExxonMobil, Chevron and ConocoPhillips Leading U.S. oil executives told President Donald Trump at the White House …
As Trump pitches oil companies on Venezuela plans, experts ...
6 days ago · The White House will host America’s oil titans Friday as President Donald Trump is expected to lay out his plan for a post-Nicolas Maduro Venezuela with an economic revamp of …
How Trump’s Venezuela Takeover Could Change the World - TIME
Jan 4, 2026 · Trump promised in his speech on Saturday that American energy companies stand ready to invest “billions and billions of dollars” to rebuild Venezuela’s oil infrastructure, but …