A medida será uma das primeiras investimentos em grande escala de estrangeiros no país desde que os EUA derrubaram o líder Nicolás Maduro em janeiro.
BP has answered Donald Trump’s call for oil companies to help rebuild Venezuela’s fossil fuel industry with new plans to develop a large offshore gasfield.
BP will partner with two oil firms with close links to the Trump administration to develop the second phase of the Loran gasfield, in one of the first large-scale foreign investments in Venezuela since the US ousted its leader Nicolás Maduro in January.
A empresa petrolífera listada em Londres detém uma licença para desenvolver o campo ao lado de uma empresa qatariana de propriedade dos irmãos Al-Khayyat, bilionários nascidos na Síria que trabalham com Ivanka Trump, filha do presidente dos EUA, e seu marido, Jared Kushner, para construir um resort controverso no valor de vários bilhões de dólares na Albânia.
The deal makes BP one of the first large-scale international oil firms to return to Venezuela after rival Shell secured a licence to develop the first phase of the Loran field earlier this summer.
Caracas is also in talks over oil projects with the Italian oil company Eni.
Meg O’Neill, BP’s chief executive, described the licence as “an important step forward” in the company’s collaboration with Caracas, which “reflects the progress we have made together”.
As empresas petrolíferas americanas ExxonMobil e ConocoPhillips começaram a procurar oportunidades na Venezuela, mas têm sido mais lentas em desempenhar um papel no ressurgimento dos combustíveis fósseis do país após a nacionalização da indústria em 2007.
A Chevron permaneceu no país como sócia minoritária da empresa petrolífera estatal da Venezuela e continuou a produzir petróleo bruto.
BP’s licence was awarded almost four months after it agreed to work with the Venezuelan government to explore potential gas development. It was also one of the first big agreements struck by O’Neill, a US-born former ExxonMobil executive, in her first month at the helm.
O’Neill said: “BP has a longstanding presence in the region and deep experience developing major gas resources. Together, these agreements provide a strong foundation to progress Venezuela’s offshore gas potential and unlock the next phase of development.”.
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Venezuela is believed to have the largest oil reserves of any country in the world, and in the late 1990s produced more than 3. 5m barrels of a oil a day as one of the top 10 crude producers in the world.
However, a quarter of a century of neglect, underinvestment and corruption have eroded its oil industry and caused output to fall to roughly 1m barrels a day.
In the months since the Trump administration seized control of Venezuela’s oil industry, oil output has climbed to 1. 2m barrels a day, allowing exports to US refineries to reach their highest level since 2019.
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Informação baseada em material público de The Guardian World, reescrito pela redação ULTRA NOTÍCIAS.
