{"podcast":{"title":"Oil Ground Up","slug":"oil-ground-up-5975771","podcast_index_feed_id":5975771,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/be62e120/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/oilgroundup","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/31841512/31841512-1746537330246-c45bbde1ca5b5.jpg","author":"Oil Ground Up","episode_count":62,"summary":"Rory Johnston navigates listeners through the financial market dynamics of the world's oil and gas sector. Get the latest fundamentals behind the price action and hear from industry experts from the field and from the corporate offices of the world's leading energy producers.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/oil-ground-up-5975771"},"episode":{"title":"What's at Stake with Venezuela's Oil Industry as US Military Activities Escalate","slug":"what-s-at-stake-with-venezuela-s-oil-industry-as-us-military-activities-escalate","published_at":"2025-11-13T15:05:20+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/oil-ground-up-5975771/what-s-at-stake-with-venezuela-s-oil-industry-as-us-military-activities-escalate","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/oil-ground-up-5975771","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/oilgroundup/episodes/Whats-at-Stake-with-Venezuelas-Oil-Industry-as-US-Military-Activities-Escalate-e3att53","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/be62e120/podcast/play/111129187/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-10-13%2Ff92a16a0-7dc9-813e-beb2-d6cc8364ab3c.mp3","summary":"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.","meta_description":"The Trump Administration has gotten increasingly aggressive in its relations with Nicholas Maduro's government in Venezuela, accumulating a historic volum…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3941,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/oil-ground-up-5975771/episodes/what-s-at-stake-with-venezuela-s-oil-industry-as-us-military-activities-escalate/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/oil-ground-up-5975771/what-s-at-stake-with-venezuela-s-oil-industry-as-us-military-activities-escalate.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}