The United States has apparently completed the first sale of Venezuelan oil. This is reported by an official in the American administration, according to several American media outlets - including CNN.
The sale is valued at 500 million US dollars, the media outlet writes. This corresponds to just over 3.2 billion kroner. No further details about the sale are available. The official expects that even more oil will be sold in the coming days and weeks.
In early January, American special forces moved into Venezuela and removed President Nicolás Maduro from power and brought him to the United States, where he awaits trial.
After the large-scale military action, US President Donald Trump has made it clear that he plans to exploit Venezuela's enormous oil reserves.
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Trump said Friday that the oil industry will invest at least $100 billion in rebuilding Venezuela's oil sector - although it is unclear where the figure comes from. The Trump administration's plans to capitalize on Venezuela's oil were met with skepticism from several major US oil companies when they met with Trump at the White House on Friday.
ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods said, among other things, that Venezuela is not worth investing in right now, and it will require major changes before the company is ready for a new oil adventure in Venezuela, where it has been before.
That comment did not go down well with Trump, who subsequently said that he was considering completely excluding ExxonMobil from oil investments in Venezuela.
According to Trump, it is his administration that will decide which US oil companies are allowed to drill for oil in Venezuela's subsoil. Several other top oil industry executives also expressed reluctance to do business in the South American country during their meeting with Trump.
Trump and his closest advisers had to leave Friday's meeting without any major commitments from companies to invest billions of dollars in Venezuela's oil sector.
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