Venezuela's political opposition has united behind a new presidential candidate - Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia - and polls suggest he could beat President Nicolas Maduro in July's elections, but this development is unlikely to change US oil sanctions policy in the near term, experts say. Washington is...
María Corina Machado took part in the coup d’état against President Hugo Chávez in 2005. She ran as a Liberal candidate against him in 2012. At the time, she advocated the privatisation of natural resources, particularly oil. She described President Chávez as a “thief” for having carrie...
Oil deposits, fantastic nature, comfortable climate all year round, dangerous men, and beautiful women — there is no such combination anywhere else in the world. Young women of this nation were winners seven times in the Miss Universe contest, six times — in the Miss World pageant, eight ...
Biocorrosion, as well as the biodeterioration of crude oil and its derivatives, is one of the major environmental, operational and economic problems in the Venezuelan oil industry. Fungal contaminants are able to produce large quantities of biomass and synthesize peroxides and organic acids, causing ...