Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Can Venezuela's Military Run An Oil Company?


Alexandra Ulmer & Marianna Parraga, Reuters: Special Report: Oil output goes AWOL in Venezuela as soldiers run PDVSA

CARACAS (Reuters) - Last July 6, Major General Manuel Quevedo joined his wife, a Catholic priest and a gathering of oil workers in prayer in a conference room at the headquarters of Petroleos de Venezuela SA, or PDVSA.

The career military officer, who for the past year has been boss at the troubled state-owned oil company, was at no ordinary mass. The gathering, rather, was a ceremony at which he and other senior oil ministry officials asked God to boost oil output.

“This place of peace and spirituality,” read a release by the Oil Ministry that was later scrubbed from its web site, “was the site of prayer by workers for the recovery of production of the industry.”

President Nicolas Maduro turned heads in November 2017 when he named a National Guard general with no oil experience to lead PDVSA [PDVSA.UL]. Quevedo’s actions since have raised even more doubts that he and the other military brass now running the company have a viable plan to rescue it from crushing debt, an exodus of workers and withering production now at its lowest in almost seven decades.

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WNU Editor: The short answer is an unequivocal no. On a side note, the Venezuelan military has a rebellion problem .... Nine Venezuelan military personnel jailed over 'Maduro plot' (AFP).

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Mike Feldhake said...

I read this story on Reuters yesterday, wow what errogance to use armed soldiers to enforce your idiotic ways then pray to God for him to increase oil output. That's spells trouble when leaders who don't know what they are doing are in charge.