{"id":16613,"date":"2026-01-08T06:08:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/?p=16613"},"modified":"2026-01-08T06:08:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:08:27","slug":"us-oil-giants-demand-strong-guarantees-before-investing-in-venezuela-amid-trumps-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/16613\/","title":{"rendered":"US Oil Giants Demand Strong Guarantees Before Investing in Venezuela Amid Trump\u2019s Push"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"description\"><p><span class=\"pre-content-text\"><a style=\"color: #0038a8;\" href=\"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/\">RoydadNaft &#8211; <\/a><\/span>\u00a0Major U.S. oil companies are demanding robust assurances from the Trump administration before committing significant capital to Venezuela, as President Donald Trump pushes them to help overhaul the country\u2019s energy sector, the Financial Times reported Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Senior U.S. officials met with top energy executives in Miami on Wednesday, according to people familiar with the discussions cited by the FT.<\/p>\n<p>The meetings follow advancing negotiations between Washington and Caracas to export up to 50 million barrels of Venezuelan crude to the United States, alongside Trump\u2019s efforts to draw American firms back into Venezuela\u2019s long-neglected oil industry.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is set to host leaders from Exxon Mobil, ConocoPhillips, and Chevron at the White House on Friday to explore options for boosting Venezuela\u2019s output, as previously reported by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Chevron, Exxon, nor ConocoPhillips immediately responded to requests for comment on the FT story.<\/p>\n<p>Executives are expected to urge the president to offer solid legal protections and financial safeguards before they invest heavily in the OPEC nation, the FT noted.<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, White House and State Department officials have pressed U.S. oil leaders to quickly re-enter Venezuela and fund major upgrades to its damaged infrastructure\u2014in exchange for potential compensation related to assets seized by the government two decades ago\u2014according to earlier Reuters reporting.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-date no-social-btn post-updated\">Updated on<time class=\"updated dt-updated\" itemprop=\"dateModified\" datetime=\"2026-01-08T06:08:27+00:00\"> 8 January 2026<\/time><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. oil executives are hesitant to pour billions into Venezuela\u2019s battered industry, insisting on ironclad legal and financial guarantees from Washington before backing Trump\u2019s plan to revive production after Maduro\u2019s capture. Talks ongoing ahead of White House meeting.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,46,36,19,16,35],"tags":[],"services":[],"class_list":["post-16613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-international","category-lastnews","category-news","category-oil","category-topnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16613"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=16613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}