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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jillian Ambrose and Jasper Jolly

Venezuela to continue supplying oil to US ‘indefinitely’, White House says

Crude oil drips from a valve at an oil well in Venezuela
Crude oil drips from a valve at an oil well in Venezuela. Oil producers continue to pump more crude than needed by the global economy. Photograph: Carlos García Rawlins/Reuters

The US plans to control Venezuela’s oil sales “indefinitely” after laying claim to 50m barrels of blockaded crude and seizing a Russian oil tanker linked to the South American country.

The White House already plans to sell up to $3bn (£2.2bn) worth of Venezuelan crude stranded in tankers and storage facilities into the oversupplied global market after the American military’s capture of Nicolás Maduro.

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