石油埋蔵量データの 下図で
「オレンジ色」がベネズエラです、「紫色」がサウジアラビアです。
おそらくベネズエラが、全て米ドル決済でoilを輸出していればまだしも、ここまでならなかったのかもしれませんね・・・。反抗しなければ呑み込まれるし・・・。
(以下英文は、センテンスを範囲指定して、右クリック、「Bingで翻訳」で、参考訳が得られます。 この場合、英文中の日本語訳単語は邪魔になりますので、Bingの画面で削除する)
Venezuela’s Orinoco Oil Belt
The world’s fourth largest river, the Orinoco, rises in the Parima Mountains along the Venezuelan-Brazilian border. The Orinoco engraves a 2,000 kilometre north-easterly arc円弧 through Columbia and Venezuela before discharging into the Atlantic Ocean off Venezuela’s coast. The Orinoco Heavy Oil Belt stretches 600 kilometres along the north bank of the Orinoco River’s easterly dash to the sea. The Belt is 70 kilometers wide.

United States Geological Service’s (USGS) Estimate of Recoverable Oil Reserves of the Orinoco Oil Belt (2009) is the go-to source regarding the Orinoco reservoir’s size. After describing how this oil-saturated飽和する bed of sandstone ended up 150 to 1500 metres below the surface of the East Orinoco Basin; the authors’ estimate “oil-in-place” to be up to 1.4 trillion barrels.
A comprehensive study by Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA) established the magnitude of the original oil-in-place
The Feigned見せかける and Future Demise継承終焉 of Big-Oil
(OOIP) at 1,180 billion barrels of oil (BBO), a commonly cited estimate for the Orinoco Oil Belt (Fiorillo, 1987); PDVSA recently revised this value to more than 1,300 BBO (Gonzalez and others, 2006) . In this study the median OOIP was estimated at 1,300 BBO and the maximum at 1,400 BBO. (quoted in USGS, op cit)
The Belt’s “technically recoverable” oil is estimated to be as much as 652 billion barrels
. (see USGC below) Elsewhere, however, the report speculates that by fully exploiting SAGD, and other recovery enhancement processes, 70% of the oil-in-place might be extracted
. Moreover, the report relies on studies published between 2001 and 2008 hence does not contemplate: Solvent溶媒-Assisted SAGD; Downhole Steam Generation; let alone the application of nuclear power. Tackling the Orinoco Belt with these technologies will yield a trillion barrels.

USGS Report p. 1
The report does not discuss production costs. Canadian oilsands companies continued to produce in 2018 even after transportation bottlenecks tanked prices to $20 a barrel. These facilities, however, would not have been built had investors known this might be the price of their wares商品. The business press guesstimates推計する the current breakeven price for an Alberta oilsands project to be around $35 a barrel.
While the Orinoco Belt is not as large as Alberta’s oilsands it has three advantages:
a) its oil is not as heavy;
b) its climate is far hotter; and
c) it’s much closer to a coast.
The Orinoco Belt sits at 9 degrees latitude緯度 and its entire span is a few hundred kilometres from Atlantic shores. Orinoco Belt production costs will be noticeably著しく lower than Alberta’s oilsands.
Let’s place 1 trillion barrels of oil in context.
Global oil consumption is currently 35 billion barrels a year. Thus, the Orinoco Belt alone could satisfy 100% of global demand for almost 30 years!
As for the Orinoco field’s dollar value. World oil prices are currently hovering near $60 … do the math (ブログ注: =do the mathematics=計算してみなはれ・・・の意).
引用 以上です。
冷静に当たり前の感覚で、Maduroマドウーロ大統領の顔を看てください。