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2026-10-18•2 min read

Venezuela Projects Almost $76B in Oil and Gas Investment Over 5 Years

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“Signing 61 hydrocarbon agreements is the easy part, whereas actually pumping crude requires years of fixing broken power grids, replacing rusted rigs, and convincing private capital that history won't repeat itself.”

Venezuela Projects Almost $76B in Oil and Gas Investment Over 5 Years
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Executive Summary

  • •Venezuela's Acting President Delcy Rodríguez stated the country expects almost $76B in oil and gas investment over the next five years under its revamped hydrocarbons framework.
  • •The government has signed 61 energy agreements and is negotiating another 44, following a separate August US agreement with North American Blue Energy Partners covering up to $100B in planned investment.
  • •Turning contractual commitments into physical production will require years of work to overcome unreliable power grids, aging equipment, worker shortages, and investor caution over past nationalizations.

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Venezuela expects almost $76B of investment in its oil and gas sector over the next five years as it seeks private capital to boost energy production, Acting President Delcy Rodríguez said Saturday at an energy conference in Maracaibo. Rodríguez stated the government has signed 61 agreements under its revamped hydrocarbons framework and is negotiating another 44, projecting the investments would generate more than 324,000 direct, indirect, and induced jobs. The push aligns with a broader US-backed effort to revive Venezuela's oil sector, including an August agreement between Washington and North American Blue Energy Partners covering 17 fields and up to $100B in planned investment to lift output from about 200,000 barrels a day currently to 500,000 by the end of 2028. Chevron $CVX, which recently expanded its Orinoco Belt development rights, stated in September that while new agreements open the path for investment, years of work and infrastructure reforms remain necessary. Bringing new barrels online faces operational bottlenecks including deteriorated oil fields, unreliable power systems, aging equipment, limited oil-field service capacity, shortages of experienced workers, and investor caution over past nationalizations.

Zubiqo Strategic Assessment

Primary Impact

Venezuelan state energy infrastructure, North American Blue Energy Partners, Chevron, and over 150 domestic and international energy companies evaluating capital commitments in the Zulia and Orinoco regions.

Strategic Shift

A transition in Venezuelan hydrocarbons policy toward foreign private capital integration and US-backed production agreements under a revamped legal framework.

The Ripple Effect

Converting the 61 signed agreements into physical crude and liquefied petroleum gas output will require years of multi-billion-dollar remediation across degraded power grids, aging drilling rigs, and depleted technical workforces.

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