RoydadNaft –  Venezuela’s state-run oil production and refining activities were operating normally on Saturday and sustained no damage from a U.S. military operation aimed at removing the country’s president, two sources familiar with the operations of energy company PDVSA told Reuters.

U.S. forces captured President Nicolás Maduro, U.S. President Donald Trump announced, following months of intense pressure over allegations of drug trafficking and illegitimate rule.

While the port of La Guaira near Caracas—one of Venezuela’s largest ports, though not used for oil exports—reportedly suffered significant damage, according to one of the sources, PDVSA’s core oil infrastructure remained unaffected.

In December, Trump imposed a blockade on oil tankers entering or leaving Venezuelan waters and the U.S. seized two cargoes of Venezuelan crude. These measures slashed the OPEC member’s exports last month to roughly half the 950,000 barrels per day shipped in November, based on monitoring data and internal documents.

The U.S. actions led many shipowners to steer clear of Venezuelan waters, causing a rapid buildup in PDVSA’s crude and fuel inventories.

As a result, the company has had to slow loading at ports and use tankers for floating storage to avoid cutting crude production or refining output.

PDVSA’s administrative systems have also not fully recovered from a December cyberattack that forced the isolation of terminals, oilfields, and refineries from the central network, requiring manual written records to maintain operations.