Trump’s Venezuela Oil Plan Runs Into Hard Reality

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US President Trump's plan to acquire up to 50 million barrels of oil from Venezuela's interim authorities has faced a harsh reality, with the country's oil production significantly decreased since its peak.

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Last week US President Donald Trump announced that Venezuela’s interim authorities will turn over up to 50 million barrels of oil to the United States, before later declaring his administration will control Venezuela's oil sales “indefinitely”. Decrying the state of Venezuela’s oil sector, including that the South American country now pumps a fraction of what it used to, Trump said, “We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies — the biggest anywhere in the world — go in,…

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Original article published by OilPrice.com on January 13, 2026.
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