According to three people familiar with the matter who participated in related discussions, the Trump administration is in negotiations to obtain long-term shares in large Venezuelan oil fields. The program is expensive and the legal future is uncertain. The intention is to push wait-and-see energy companies to carry out mining in this high-risk area. The general idea of this plan is for the US to gain more direct control over Venezuela's oil reserves, but the plan is still being refined, and may be revised, or it may completely collapse. Two people familiar with the negotiations, who were not authorized to disclose details to the outside world and chose to remain anonymous, said that in the terms under discussion, the US will receive long-term contract rights to one-third of Venezuela's oil reserves, which can dispose of about 90 billion barrels of crude oil. A list of 17 oil fields the US plans to participate in. Some oil fields have no supporting infrastructure at all, and there are no transportation hubs for crude oil processing and shipping; the few remaining oil fields have also lost equipment due to years of disrepair and theft. If you want to extract oil in these oil fields, you need to invest tens of billions of dollars and develop expensive security plans.

According to three people familiar with the matter who participated in related discussions, the Trump administration is in negotiations to obtain long-term shares in large Venezuelan oil fields. The program is expensive and the legal future is uncertain. The intention is to push wait-and-see energy companies to carry out mining in this high-risk area. The general idea of this plan is for the US to gain more direct control over Venezuela's oil reserves, but the plan is still being refined, and may be revised, or it may completely collapse. Two people familiar with the negotiations, who were not authorized to disclose details to the outside world and chose to remain anonymous, said that in the terms under discussion, the US will receive long-term contract rights to one-third of Venezuela's oil reserves, which can dispose of about 90 billion barrels of crude oil. A list of 17 oil fields the US plans to participate in. Some oil fields have no supporting infrastructure at all, and there are no transportation hubs for crude oil processing and shipping; the few remaining oil fields have also lost equipment due to years of disrepair and theft. If you want to extract oil in these oil fields, you need to invest tens of billions of dollars and develop expensive security plans.