{"id":31034,"date":"2026-03-12T22:41:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T22:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/31034\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T22:41:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T22:41:47","slug":"exclusive-vitol-gets-preliminary-us-license-to-begin-negotiations-on-venezuelan-oil-imports-and-exports-four-sources-say-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/31034\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive-Vitol gets preliminary US license to begin negotiations on Venezuelan oil imports and exports, four sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">By Arathy Somasekhar, Dmitry Zhdannikov and Shariq Khan<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">HOUSTON, Jan 8 (Reuters) &#8211; \u200bVitol, one of the world&#8217;s \u200clargest commodity traders, has received a preliminary \u200cspecial license from the U.S. government to begin negotiations to import and export oil from Venezuela for 18 \u2060months, four \u200csources said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Vitol would seek to finalize the \u200dlicense and terms under which it can operate in the South American country in \u200bthe coming days, one source \u200csaid. Vitol declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration has said it wants to control Venezuela&#8217;s oil sales and revenue indefinitely, after U.S. forces captured President \u2060Nicolas Maduro on January \u200b3. Vitol and rival \u200bTrafigura are in talks with the Trump administration about the \u200dmarketing of \u2060Venezuelan oil, Reuters reported earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Arathy Somasekhar in Houston, Shariq Khan \u2060in New York, and Dmitry Zhdannikov and \u200cJulia Payne in Brussels; Editing \u200cby David Gregorio)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Arathy Somasekhar, Dmitry Zhdannikov and Shariq Khan HOUSTON, Jan 8 (Reuters) &#8211; \u200bVitol, one of the world&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[125],"tags":[1013,4070,593,18689,18688,592,158],"class_list":["post-31034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vitol","tag-commodity-traders","tag-negotiations","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-shariq-khan","tag-special-license","tag-venezuelan-oil","tag-vitol"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116218618420349296","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}