Venezuela and the United States are working on a “very fast” agenda to consolidate bilateral cooperationassured the president in charge, Delcy Rodrigueza day after he toured his nation’s oil facilities along with the US Energy Secretary Chris Wright.
“We are working on a very fast agenda to consolidate binational cooperation, it is what matters for both the United States and Venezuela, that our countries, that our people, benefit”said Rodríguez, in a video that he published this Friday on social networks.
In the video, which shows images of his visit with Wright to oil fields and companies operated by the state PDVSA and the American Chevronthe Chavista leader expressed that both companies are “doing an extraordinary job as partners”.
He indicated that 95% of the workers in these mixed companies are Venezuelanswho, he assured, have “a perfect synchronicity” with employees who “brought Chevron from other countries”.
“We work as one people”stated Rodríguez, for whom this “it is the path of cooperation and it is the agenda of a long-term productive partnership”in reference to the agreement signed during a private meeting with Wright in the Miraflores Palacethe headquarters of the Venezuelan Executive, in Caracas.
The official, who considers “an honor” for your country to be able to “collaborate to reduce energy inequality on the planet”wait “no type of obstacle […] “is going to hinder this good productive path” with the USA
He Secretary of Energy plans to increase Chevron production to 300,000 barrels of oil per day in Venezuela after visiting the fields that the company operates in the Caribbean country, where he also explored ways to modernize energy infrastructure.
On Tuesday, the US Treasury Department relaxed restrictions so that US companies can operate in the Venezuelan oil marketalthough under strict control and reporting conditions.
On January 29, the Venezuelan Parliament approved a reform of the Organic Hydrocarbons Law that opens the oil sector to private and foreign investment.
