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   ‘Make Venezuela Investable Again’
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              U.S. control over Venezuela can perhaps be summarized best by what the White House’s chief energy adviser signed in a guestbook shortly after landing in Caracas’ main international airport last month: “Drill baby drill!”
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              As Jarrod Agen, the executive director of the Trump administration’s National Energy Dominance Council,
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              , his 
gesture showcased the “massive change” underway in Venezuela, a South American nation with one of the world’s largest oil reserves. Nearly six months after President Donald Trump ousted its dictator Nicolás Maduro, the interim government has relaxed longstanding financial restrictions to open Venezuela for foreign investment.
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              The lightning U.S. military intervention yielded an outcome that isn’t so much regime change as it is a cosmetic makeover with most of the regime’s underlying political and security apparatus 
still intact. The Trump administration is calling the shots in Caracas, chiefly by exercising control over Venezuelan oil sales and soon influencing a $170 billion restructuring of defaulted bonds. Acting President Delcy Rodriguez has drawn lavish praise from Trump for her cooperative attitude toward the U.S.
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              With oil prices shooting upwards due to supply shocks from the Iran war, U.S. and other Western oil companies are taking a fresh look at collaborating with a socialist government that expropriated their equipment 
and drilling sites two decades ago. Now a bloc of American oil companies are coming out ahead as early winners as the Trump administration’s sway over Venezuela’s trajectory deepens.
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              Chevron
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              in mid-April with the state firm PDVSA to step up heavy crude output in the oil-rich 
Orinoco Belt. ExxonMobil isn’t far behind in signing a landmark deal that would enable its return to Venezuela,
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              Not every major U.S. oil firm is sold on re-entering Venezuela. ConocoPhillips CEO Ryan Lance
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              Earlier this year, the Venezuelan government
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              Oil and gas companies are operating in a different world compared to the start of the year. At one point, energy markets were so swamped with oil that analysts forecasted 2026 to be a year of 
sliding oil prices. Shortly after U.S. forces captured Maduro, Trump was
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              $50 per barrel as his magic number for prices, even as oil companies struggled to maintain profits and shareholder dividends at prior, robust levels against tumbling crude prices.
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              No longer. The Iran war catapulted energy markets into turmoil and now scarcity
is their defining feature, not surplus. Oil prices have been swinging above and below $100 per barrel of crude, very much elevated from before the war but still much lower than early doomsday forecasts of $150 or more.
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              That’s double the figures forecasted at the beginning of the year. Elevated oil prices are stirring new appetite for companies to bolster crude oil production, now that new drilling is a more profitable undertaking. ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods — who notably
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              “So I feel positive about what's happening, the opportunity there,” Woods told investors
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              . “More work to do, but I think we'll be uniquely positioned and play an important role in bringing those barrels to market.”
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              ExxonMobil reported
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              because of higher oil 
prices stemming from the Iran war. Progress toward a peace deal has been halting, causing
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