{"id":42988,"date":"2026-01-14T08:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T08:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/russian-oil-firm-says-it-will-keep-its-venezuela-assets-after-us-military-operation\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T08:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T08:51:14","slug":"russian-oil-firm-says-it-will-keep-its-venezuela-assets-after-us-military-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/russian-oil-firm-says-it-will-keep-its-venezuela-assets-after-us-military-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian oil firm says it will keep its Venezuela assets after US military operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/696725f204eda4732f2f07f7?format=jpeg\" alt=\"A man sits in front of the national flags of Russia (L) and Venezuela (R) waving in Caracas.\"\/><figcaption>Russia and Venezuela maintain a strategic partnership spanning energy, defense, and diplomacy.<\/p>\n<p>Yuri Cortez\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Russia&#039;s state-owned Roszarubezhneft says its Venezuelan oil assets belong to the Russian state.<\/li>\n<li>Roszarubezhneft holds stakes in oil joint ventures with Venezuela&#039;s state-owned PDVSA energy giant.<\/li>\n<li>President Trump has talked about US control and investment after the January 3 military operation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Russia&#039;s state-owned oil company Roszarubezhneft sought to draw a line around its oil holdings in Venezuela after a US military operation on January 3 reshaped the South American country&#039;s political landscape.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;All assets of Roszarubezhneft JSC in Venezuela are owned by the Russian state,&quot; the company said in a statement carried by Russian news agency TASS on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Roszarubezhneft took over Rosneft&#039;s Venezuelan holdings in 2020 after US sanctions forced the oil giant to exit. It now holds stakes in five joint ventures with Venezuela&#039;s state oil company PDVSA.<\/p>\n<p>The company \u2014 owned by a unit of the Russian Ministry of Economic Development \u2014 said on Tuesday that the assets were acquired at full market value and approved by Venezuelan regulators.<\/p>\n<p>Roszarubezhneft&#039;s statement came as Venezuela&#039;s oil sector faces fresh uncertainty after the recent US raid that resulted in the capture of deposed Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro.<\/p>\n<p>After the operation, President Donald Trump said the US could run Venezuela and touted plans for American oil companies to invest in the South American country&#039;s vast but rundown oil sector.<\/p>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin has not commented publicly on the operation in Venezuela. Moscow&#039;s relationship with Caracas includes deep energy ties \u2014 a key pillar of Russia&#039;s economy \u2014 alongside defense and diplomatic cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian foreign ministry has called for Maduro&#039;s release and for dialoguebetween the US and Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>Investors are watching whether the tensions spill over into energy flows.<\/p>\n<p>Global oil prices have been weighed down in recent years by ample supply and slowing demand growth.<\/p>\n<p>But analysts say geopolitical risks are rising, with Venezuela and renewed tensions involving Iran back in focus.<\/p>\n<p>Some analysts warn that the risk of an oil price shock \u2014 a sudden surge in prices that can ripple through markets and the global economy \u2014 is increasing as geopolitical conflicts intensify.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia and Venezuela maintain a strategic partnership spanning energy, defense, and diplomacy. Yuri Cortez\/AFP\/Getty Images Russia&#039;s state-owned Roszarubezhneft says its Venezuelan oil assets belong to the Russian state. Roszarubezhneft holds stakes in oil joint ventures with Venezuela&#039;s state-owned PDVSA energy giant. President Trump has talked about US control and investment after the January 3 military [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-42988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}