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Orinoco Oil Belt turns one year under government control

A year after the government took control of oil operations in the Orinoco Oil Belt, Venezuelan energy authorities announced a package of investments that will double daily production in the area within the next five years and rose proven deposits in the oil-rich region to 95 billion oil barrels.

In addition, production in the extra-heavy oil area located north of the Orinoco River increased from an average of 626,000 bpd in 2007 to 800,000 bpd in July 2008, Venezuelan state oil company Petróleos de Venezuela (Pdvsa) reported.

At the same time, Pdvsa continued the certification of oil deposits in the Orinoco Oil Belt, in order to increase proven reserves in the area to 235 billion barrels in 2009.

Having this in mind, Pdvsa has established partnerships with 19 companies, most of them state oil companies from 16 countries, namely Argentina, Belarus, Brazil, Chile, China, Cuba, Ecuador, India, Iran, Malaysia, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Uruguay and Vietnam.


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05:09 PM. Economy. If any country has cashed in on the Bolivarian revolution, that is Brazil, particularly the private companies of the southern neighbor. Over the past five years, it has been awarded contracts for works to be carried out in Venezuela for over USD 14 billion. This puts it as the first recipient of government-to-government contracts, that is, without bidding, since Hugo Chávez took office.

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