PANAMA CITY, PANAMA (By Piero Stewart, Energy Analytics Institute, 11.Feb.2026, Words: 232) — Venezuela’s interim president Delcy Rodríguez and the US secretary of energy Christopher Wright continued their high-level bilateral agenda with a tour of the facilities of Petroindependencia S.A. in the Orinoco Oil Belt “Hugo Chávez.”
During the inspection of this joint venture between state-owed PDVSA and Chevron Corporation, which has been processing extra-heavy crude since 2010, the production clusters and crude oil transportation were evaluated, as well as the investments needed to reactivate inactive wells.
