(Bloomberg) — Oil production in Venezuela, the country with the world’s largest reserves of crude, has fallen to a 75-year low with U.S. sanctions continuing to cripple the country’s exports.Venezuela’s state-run oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA lowered its production estimates to 374,000 barrels a day as of Wednesday, according to a document seen by Bloomberg, a level not seen since 1945. Its slide is a result of U.S. sanctions that have scared most of the world’s oil buyers away from Venezuelan crude, resulting in a storage glut that forced it to shut fields across the nation.PDVSA’s production estimate is …read more
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