{"id":678794,"date":"2026-01-07T00:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T00:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/678794\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T00:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T00:34:10","slug":"venezuela-turning-over-up-to-50m-barrels-of-oil-to-the-us-trump-says-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/678794\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela \u2018turning over\u2019 up to 50m barrels of oil to the US, Trump says | Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Donald Trump has said Venezuela will be \u201cturning over\u201d 30 to 50m barrels of sanctioned oil to the US, as the South American country seeks to avoid deep cuts in output amid an ongoing blockade on exports imposed by Washington since mid-December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cThis Oil will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, as President of the United States of America, to ensure it is used to benefit the people of Venezuela and the United States!\u201d Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/115850817778602689\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said in a post online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Venezuela has millions of barrels of oil loaded on tankers and in storage tanks that it has been unable to ship due to the blockade imposed by Trump, as part of the pressure campaign that culminated in the toppling of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/nicolas-maduro\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nicol\u00e1s Maduro<\/a> who was seized from his country by US forces over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cI have asked Energy Secretary Chris Wright to execute this plan, immediately,\u201d Trump said, adding that the oil would be \u201ctaken by storage ships, and brought directly to unloading docks in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Reports earlier on Tuesday stated that government officials in Caracas and Washington had discussed exporting Venezuelan crude to refiners in the United States, in a deal that would divert supplies away from China while helping state company PDVSA avoid deeper output cuts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">China has been Venezuela\u2019s top buyer in the last decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">This is a breaking news story \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">With Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump has said Venezuela will be \u201cturning over\u201d 30 to 50m barrels of sanctioned oil to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-678794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115851012528680315","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}