the US oil boom empowers Trump over Venezuela
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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway owns about 6% of Chevron, the only US oil major still operating in Venezuela.
Jennifer Geerlings-Simons promises a novel blueprint for a delicate opportunity.
Suriname’s long-awaited offshore oil boom, anchored by TotalEnergies’ GranMorgu project, promises economic relief but faces mounting geological, financial, and timing challenges.
It’s boom time in the U.S. oil patch, but storm clouds are gathering. Oil companies are planning to slash payroll — as production surges, demand stagnates and storage tanks around the world fill up. The political consequences are potentially large.
America’s oil industry is booming — in a surprising way. It doesn't look much like the booms of the past, when companies would scramble to pump as much oil as possible and the region would attract so many workers it became impossible to find housing ...
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America’s biggest oil field may be a ticking pressure bomb under the plains
America’s most productive oil patch is now grappling with a problem it cannot drill its way out of: mounting underground pressure from billions of barrels of dirty water. What began as a quiet byproduct of the shale boom is starting to look like a structural threat to the very plains that made the region rich.
Venezuela’s oil boom crashed into a 73% economic contraction fueled by extreme subsidies, $300 billion lost to corruption, PDVSA underinvestment, and U.S. secondary sanctions that slashed oil output and deepened collapse.
See how Trump’s capture of Maduro and control of Venezuela’s oil sales could affect China, Cuba and the United States.