# What's at Stake with Venezuela's Oil Industry as US Military Activities Escalate

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Podcast: [Oil Ground Up](https://stenobird.com/podcast/oil-ground-up-5975771)
Published: 2025-11-13T15:05:20+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/oilgroundup/episodes/Whats-at-Stake-with-Venezuelas-Oil-Industry-as-US-Military-Activities-Escalate-e3att53
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The Trump Administration has gotten increasingly aggressive in its relations with Nicholas Maduro's government in Venezuela, accumulating a historic volume of US military capability in the Caribbean and cancelling a raft of oil sector operating licenses. Whether or not this leads to outright regime change, it seems like we are on the precipice of something major occurring on Venezuela. What could all of this mean for Venezuela's chronically challenged but stupendously high potential oil industry? To help me explore this question, I'm joined today by Dr Francisco Monaldi , the director of the Latin America Energy Program and the Wallace S Wilson Fellow in Latin American Energy Policy at the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy. Fransisco has spent decades chronicling and analyzing Venezuela's oil sector and brings a very welcome and encyclopedia body of knowledge to bear in our conversation.

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