{"id":644041,"date":"2025-08-23T11:00:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T05:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=644041"},"modified":"2025-08-23T11:00:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T05:30:33","slug":"trump-team-withholds-venezuelan-oil-approval-for-non-us-majors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/trump-team-withholds-venezuelan-oil-approval-for-non-us-majors\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Team Withholds Venezuelan Oil Approval for Non-US Majors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) &#8212; The Trump administration is withholding approval for several Western oil majors seeking to operate in Venezuela, ramping up pressure on Nicol\u00e1s Maduro\u2019s government even as Chevron Corp. is allowed to work there, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The pause is focused on non-US firms, leaving companies including Spain\u2019s Repsol SA, Italy\u2019s Eni SpA and France\u2019s Maurel &amp; Prom in limbo, said the people, who requested anonymity as the matter is private. It underscores a delicate balancing act in Washington as officials weigh competing geopolitical, financial and energy considerations. Last month, the Treasury Department granted approval for Chevron to resume producing and exporting Venezuelan oil. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) &#8212; The Trump administration is withholding approval for several Western oil majors seeking to operate in Venezuela, ramping up pressure on Nicol\u00e1s Maduro\u2019s government even as Chevron Corp. is allowed to work there, according to people familiar with the matter. The pause is focused on non-US firms, leaving companies including Spain\u2019s Repsol SA, Italy\u2019s Eni SpA and France\u2019s Maurel &amp; Prom in limbo, said the people, who requested anonymity as the matter is private. It underscores a delicate balancing act in Washington as officials weigh competing geopolitical, financial and energy considerations. Last month, the Treasury Department granted approval for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}