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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Callum Jones in New York

Trump says US companies will invest billions in Venezuelan oil production. Experts aren’t so sure

Gas flares next to smokestacks and buildings.
A refinery building on 18 December 2025 in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela. Photograph: Jesús Vargas/Getty Images

Industry experts have expressed skepticism over Donald Trump’s bullish prediction that US big oil firms will rapidly invest tens of billions of dollars to fix Venezuelan infrastructure and ramp up production after the rendition of the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro.

Without an “iron-clad guarantee” that the US federal government will fully reimburse them for the cost of rebuilding the country’s oil market, analysts expect global energy giants to proceed with extreme caution.

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