Trump fordert 100 Milliarden US-Dollar für venezolanisches Öl, aber Exxon-Chef sagt, das Land sei „nicht investierbar“

Sounds kinda like the administration repeatedly proves it

**HAS NO FUCKING CLUE** about geopolitics.

Read an article today that likely is similar to the BBC. Venezuela isn’t what it appears in relation to its crude for these and many other reasons:

**Official Data is Stale:** Venezuela’s government hasn’t updated its reserve data since 2010, relying on reclassifying Orinoco Belt heavy oil as „proved“ reserves, according to the [Baker Institute](https://www.bakerinstitute.org/research/venezuelas-oil-mythologies-have-hindered-its-development).

**“Resources“ vs. „Reserves“:** Venezuela reports huge *resources* (total oil in the ground), but not all is economically recoverable, unlike true *reserves* (oil that can be extracted profitably).

**Extra-Heavy Crude:** Most reserves are in the Orinoco Belt, a thick, tar-like substance that doesn’t flow easily and needs to be diluted with lighter chemicals for transport.

**Heavy & Dense:** It’s less dense (low API gravity) and viscous than light sweet crude, the type most global refineries are set up to process for fuels like gasoline.

**Sour & Contaminated:** It has high sulfur and metal content, which corrodes refinery equipment and requires costly, complex processing (more hydrogen, energy, and cleanup) to meet modern standards

„You’re dealing with us directly. You’re not dealing with Venezuela at all. We don’t want you to deal with Venezuela,“ he said.“

Bribe me not them.

Who would want to build expensive infrastructure staffed by hundreds of ransom risks in such an unstable situation

lol, does anyone remember rex tillerson, the former exxon-mobil ceo that trump appointed as secretary of state in his first term? the one who later called trump a moron?

The plan makes no sense. The oil reserves are expensive to extract, and to make the investment a company would need political and economic stability.

Trump’s concept (it is not a plan) offers neither. The Trump government itself is unstable and Venezuela is unstable.

Plus Oil companies have no incentive to increase production to lower prices. That would compromise the rest of their investments.

Oil demand growth is slowing rapidly and will begin to shrink in 10 years. Right now is the last “good times” in the oil industry and they’re looking to make cash flow while they can.

This entire concept ignores the reality of 2020’s economics. Much like the tariffs program; it’s something that’s ancient and not intelligent now.

I hope so badly this all blows up in his face. 

If they nationalized the industry once, they could nationalize it again. The smart play is to stay away.

There’s nothing to prevent a Chavez-style government from coming to power down the line and then nationalizing the country’s oil industry.

But you are thinking about this instead of Epstein so…

Trumps out or dead in 3 years, they are not going to build a bunch of infrastructure with that window

One oil expert explained that Venezuela oil is only good for making lubricants and asphalt.

So…did they do all this shit in Venezuela without making sure they had corporate investment secured beforehand? 🤣🤣 Holy shit. Please let this thing fall apart.

Maybe talking to the oil guys first might have been a good plan.

They will make taxpayers invest in the infrastructure, secure the oil from Guyana that Venezuela was moving on and GOP megadonor Paul Singer will be add more billions to his net worth: [https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/trump-venezuela-oil-maduro-billionaire-paul-singer-citgo-elliot-management-hedge-fund/](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/trump-venezuela-oil-maduro-billionaire-paul-singer-citgo-elliot-management-hedge-fund/)

In November 2025, Singer acquired Citgo, the US-based subsidiary of Venezuela’s state-run oil company. Singer, through his private investment firm, Elliott Investment Management, [bought Citgo for $5.9 billion](https://www.wsj.com/articles/judge-backs-elliotts-6-billion-bid-for-venezuelas-citgo-64cc8302). The sale to Amber Energy, a subsidiary of Elliott Investment Management, was forced by creditors of Venezuela after the country defaulted on its bond payments.