BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA (By Pietro D. Pitts, Energy Analytics Institute, 28.Feb.2026, Word: 415) — Venezuela’s interim president Delcy Rodríguez led a meeting with over 230 business leaders from the hydrocarbons sector and authorities from state-owned Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA), with the objective of boosting the OPEC country’s hydrocarbon sector and consolidating the sustained growth of the country’s main industry.
At the meeting, Rodríguez emphasized the hydrocarbons sector is the central axis of Venezuela’s Bolivarian economic agenda and the fundamental pillar for strengthening national production, she said on 28 Feb. 2026 in a broadcast on Venezuelan television.