EAI brief: Venezuela eyes production exceeding 1.5 MMb/d by YE:26

PANAMA CITY, PANAMA (By Piero Stewart, Energy Analytics Institute, 11.Feb.2026, Words: 106) — Venezuela’s interim president Delcy Rodríguez and the US secretary of energy Christopher Wright discussed a plan to increase crude oil production in the OPEC country. 

This, during a tour by the authorities of the Petroindependencia S.A. facilities located in the Orinoco Heavy Oil Belt or Faja.