Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Venezuela Oil Production


Crude Oil Production in Venezuela increased to 933 thousand BPD in August from 906 thousand BPD in July of 2019. Crude Oil Production in Venezuela averaged 2.381 million BPD from 1973 until 2019, reaching an all-time high of 3.453 BPD in December of 1997 and a record low of 594 thousand BPD in January of 2003. Oil production in 2019 by month is listed below.

2019      Million Barrels per Day
January    1.488
February   1.432
March       0.960
April          1.037
May          1.030
June         1.047
July          0.906
August     0.933

Venezuela’s trade surplus in 2019 has increased to $4.636 billion, with Imports at $3.621 billion and Exports at $8.257 billion. Russia purchased 49% of the state-owned oil company. Both Russia and China is being paid back their $50 billion loans to Venezuela in oil.


Total Government Spending is $2.04 billion and includes
Military Spending at $465 million.  


In 2016, Maduro secured a fresh loan by giving Russian oil giant Rosneft a 49.9-percent stake in Citgo as collateral. In addition, the remaining 50.1 percent held by Venezuela's 
state-owned oil company PDVSA are also collateralized under a bond issue owned by Russia - Feb 13, 2019

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