At a U.N. climate change summit last year, Mr. Maduro did not address the environmental damage resulting from his country’s hobbled oil industry. Instead, he claimed that Venezuela was ...

The government already siphoned a substantial amount of money from the oil industry to pay for social programs, but it wasn’t enough. Venezuela demanded changes to the agreements made by the ...

With Venezuela’s once powerful oil industry now badly fractured largely on account of United States sanctions imposed on the administration of President Nicolas Maduro, Caracas would appear to ...

33 The carbon dioxide and methane released from unrestricted flaring have global implications, contributing to ocean warming and accelerating climate change. Despite a proud history of record levels ...

In recent years, Venezuela has had to contend with several crises that have left its hydrocarbons industry in a state of dramatic decline. Reinvigorating the production of oil and gas in the country ...

For this reason, the collapse of Venezuela’s oil industry has sounded the death ... which have the objective of initiating regime change, those requirements will not be met.

Venezuela’s road to recovery will be long and rife with obstacles. Despite the oil industry’s moribund ... is the director of the Energy, Climate Change & Extractive Industries Program at ...

By Anatoly Kurmanaev and Clifford Krauss CARACAS, Venezuela — After decades ... Meridith Kohut for The New York Times The haphazard changes to the oil sector, which have accelerated in recent ...

Changes in leadership and governance can provide a breath ... Under almost any scenario one can imagine, rejuvenating Venezuela’s oil industry will be a high priority for a new government. But for all ...

The possibility of change Venezuela seems to stumble from one ... members of OPEC and one of the early pioneers of the oil industry. The country also holds the world’s largest proven oil reserves.

Venezuela demanded changes to the agreements made by the ... he and his cronies are running Venezuela’s oil industry right into the ground. His generosity to the poor has only been possible ...