(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 27.Jul.2018) – The continued decline in Venezuela’s oil production acts to squeeze the government of President Nicolas Maduro, says an Ecoanalitica executive.
“The fall in oil production puts more restriction on the government,” said Ecoanalitica Director Asdrubal Oliveros during an interview with Shirley Varnagy on her program ‘Shirley Radio.’
Venezuela, the country with the world’s largest oil reserves, continues to suffer self-inflicted economic, financial and humanitarian crises. Production of the country’s primary export, crude oil, fell to 1.340 million barrels per day in June 2018 compared to 1.911 million barrels per day in 2017, according to OPEC’s most recent Monthly Oil Market Report and based on secondary sources.
***