Pdvsa Asserts that Oil Production “Is Not Dependent on Licenses”

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Héctor Obregón, president of Petróleos de Venezuela (Pdvsa), said this Friday that the production of crude oil in the country “is not dependent on licenses”, but on the “own effort” of the workers of the state to increase production. His declarations are given regarding the expiration on May 27 of the licenses granted by the United States to companies like Chevron to operate in Venezuela.

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Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, considered that his country “is not dependent on licenses,” after Washington’s permission to operate and export crude oil from the South American nation expired on Tuesday. “Venezuela does not depend on a license. No one has to give us licenses to breathe, to live, to walk, to walk, to exist,” Maduro said during the inauguration of a production monitoring room for mixed companies, broadcast by the state-run…