Venezuela claims to have pumped 1.7 million barrels of crude oil a day

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Caracas (EFE) .- Venezuela reported today that it has managed to "stop the decline" of its production of crude and that It pumps 1.57 million barrels a day, figures which contrast with that the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) offered a few days ago secondary sources.

The governor of the Caribbean country before the OPEC, Ángel González badured that Venezuela produced 1,570,000 barrels of crude oil per day during the first six months of 2018, and that number could reach 1,735,000 if we include "condensates" and hydrocarbons derived from gases.

OPEC 1570,000 (barrels per day) in this first semester " he added in an interview on VTV state television.

According to González, the secondary sources used by OPEC to calculate the Venezuelan pumping, which his last informed and 1.39 million barrels a day, "do not include" the heavy and extra-heavy crude "intended for oil improvers." [19659005] As Venezuelan Minister of Petroleum, Manuel Quevedo rejected the figures offered by the country's media on state production PDVSA .

" Many of these media have been close to defamation, the figures we give the production is easily verifiable, verified, in addition to match the income earned by our national marketing product, "he said.

He added that disclosure of unofficial figures has "perverse interest to hit the morals "of the Petroleum Workers

The South American country became the third largest producer of OPEC, but after the problems that its industry has faced ended up occupying the eighth rank among the fifteen members, with 4.15% of the total oil produced by the cartel in June

Studies claim that the oil belt of the Orinoco in Venezuela has about 300 billion barrels of oil, which makes this region the largest proven reserves in the world.

Despite this wealth, Venezuela is undergoing a severe economic crisis that is resulting in a shortage of staple foods and medications as well as by hyperinflation, a phenomenon that has sprayed the power of. purchase of workers. EFE (I)

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