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Venezuela's economic sectors, from official sources
Sector Venezuela brings OFAC licences, Venezuela's Official Gazette, OPEC reports and company filings into one record for investors, analysts and advisers, organised sector by sector, checked daily and compared version to version. Each rule and figure links to its source and is labelled Official, Reported or Derived: facts only, in English and Spanish.
Venezuela, sector by sectorEach sector runs on the same four layers: rule register, official data, ownership register and version tracking.
Oil monitor
Oil sector at a glanceEach panel updates as new rules, filings and official data are published
Latest and nextUpdated daily from OFAC, the Official Gazette, release calendars and publishers' feeds
QuestionsOn the oil rules, answered from the official texts; and on the site itself
Questions on the oil rules
Answered from the official texts on the oil page.
Common questions
Is this legal or investment advice?
No. Reference only, not legal, investment or other advice. Only the official text has legal effect: check it, and its date, before acting.
How current is it?
Updated daily from OFAC, the Official Gazette and the press; official data updates with each new release. Each panel shows its latest date.
Where does each figure come from?
From the cited source, linked on each record and marked Official, Reported or Derived. Derived figures are calculated by Sector Venezuela's automated models from cited figures.
Is it free?
Yes. Reading the site and the email alerts are free.
Who is behind it?
Sector Venezuela: content produced by Sector Venezuela's automated models from the cited sources. Not affiliated with any government or official body.
Venezuela's oil sector
Rules in force and their version history, duties and deadlines, partner holdings by field, and buyer countries' official import statistics for Venezuela's oil sector. Each panel carries its as-of date and source, and updates as new licences, Gazette issues, company filings and data releases are published.
Key figuresEach figure links to its section
Rules in force and changesRestated from the official texts · register, licence versions, Gazette and then-and-now comparisons on the Rules page
Obligations and holdingsUpdated as rules, filings and company releases are published
Exports, from official statisticsBuyer countries' customs and energy agencies, with the release calendar
Questions on the rules
Exports by destination
How much oil Venezuela exports each month and where it goes, in thousand barrels per day, from tanker-tracking reports (labelled Reported). Switch to see who sold it.
Exports by destination, 2026
The hatched part is volume whose destination was not reported. Circles mark OPEC's production estimate; squares mark Venezuela's own figure (both from OPEC's monthly report). Click a month to show it on the map.
Export routes map, by month
Route width shows kb/d. Click a route or destination for the figure and its source. Base map © OpenStreetMap contributors · OpenMapTiles · OpenFreeMap.
Who buys Venezuelan crude
Imports of Venezuelan crude reported by buyer countries' own statistics, latest period per source, in one table. Filter by buyer or source; open a row for recent months.
Volumes reported in tonnes are converted at 6.5 barrels per tonne (Calculated); prices per barrel are the reported value divided by the converted volume.
Charts and tables by source
US imports of Venezuelan crude
Monthly, thousand barrels per day, as published by the EIA.
US weekly imports
EIA weekly preliminary imports, thousand barrels per day.
US importers and ports of entry
Crude oil imported from Venezuela by importing company, thousand barrels per day, by month.
Imports reported by buyer countries
Monthly imports of crude oil (HS 2709) with Venezuela as origin, as reported by each importing country. Volumes converted to kb/d at 6.5 barrels per tonne; price is customs value per barrel. China does not report Venezuela as an origin, so its purchases do not appear here.
Spain's imports of Venezuelan crude
EU imports of Venezuelan crude by country
Monthly crude imports (HS 2709) from Venezuela reported by EU member states. Usually a month fresher than UN Comtrade for EU buyers.
Crude production
Two measures, both published in OPEC's Monthly Oil Market Report: OPEC's estimate from secondary sources, and the figure Venezuela reports to OPEC directly ("direct communication").
| Month | OPEC estimate | Venezuela's figure | Difference* | Report |
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US exports to Venezuela (crude and products, incl. diluent)
Crude oil and petroleum products shipped from the US to Venezuela, thousand barrels per day (EIA series MTTEXVE2). Reuters reports PDVSA typically imports about 100,000 b/d of naphtha and light crude to dilute its extra-heavy crude; OFAC GL 47B authorizes sales of US-origin diluents.
Sanctioned tankers linked to Venezuela
Vessels on the US Treasury's Specially Designated Nationals list under Venezuela-related programs, refreshed daily. Use the IMO number to look up current owner and position.
Official data release calendar
Official data release calendar
When the official series used on this site are next published, from each publisher's own schedule. Not obligations: dates when new data appear.
Holdings in Venezuela's oil fields
Partner stakes by field and joint venture, the type of each partner company, the NABEP concessions, and each company's disclosed output and plans, from company filings and releases and official sources. Updated when a company or official filing reports a change.
Key figuresEach figure links to its section
01MapFields coloured by the type of company partnering with PDVSA
Fields by partner type
02Fields register
03NABEP concessions
04CompaniesStakes on file, disclosed output and plans, and the OFAC licences whose text names each company
05Drilling and field servicesRig count and service companies' reported work or plans in Venezuela
Rules in force: Venezuela's oil sector
US, Venezuelan and other government rules in force for Venezuela's oil sector, compiled from the official texts by Sector Venezuela's automated models.
Rules at a glance
Rules database
Every rule on file, with advanced filters: by activity, jurisdiction, subject, type or status. Open any rule for its purpose, every version and the official text. Questions on the rules, on the oil page →
Find a rule
All rules on file: filter by activity, jurisdiction, subject, type or status; open any rule for its purpose, versions and official text.
Activities grouped from each licence's title and scope by Sector Venezuela's automated models; check the full terms on the licence's page.
By subject: what the rules govern
Each subject page shows its US, Venezuelan and international rules together, with then-and-now comparisons.
Venezuela: rules by legal rank
Venezuelan rules ordered by legal form, from the Constitution down, as each instrument is named in the Official Gazette. Accords express the National Assembly's position and are not laws.
Coverage and sources
What Sector Venezuela's automated models have on file, what is still being researched, and when each official source was last collected.
Venezuelan instruments in the research queue
Show all OFAC general licences
The full list of Venezuela general licences as currently posted by OFAC. Licences tracked in Sector Venezuela link to their page; others link to OFAC.
Show recent OFAC actions
| Date | Action |
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Oil money: where payments for Venezuelan oil go
Under US rules, royalties and taxes owed to Venezuela's state and PDVSA on licensed oil sales are paid into US Treasury accounts, not to Venezuela directly. What the documents say, the amounts officials have stated, and what has not been published.
Amounts stated by officials
| Date | Amount | Statement |
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Not published
Timeline
Every fact on the money, with its source
Changes: what changed, and how it differs
Three views of change: the dated log of every rule change, the changes in each new licence version, and then-and-now comparisons of today's rules with the rules before them. Reported items are upgraded to official when a government or company document appears.
Log
What changed in each new licence version
One line per amended licence; the full change, every version and the official text are on each licence's page.
Latest versions
Versions issued in 2026
Sanctions on Venezuela's oil sector, 2017 to today
Every key official action and every OFAC licence version on file, in date order, each linked to its official text.
How today's rules differ from before
Each comparison quotes the earlier official text and the text in force today, and states only what the two texts show changed.
Venezuela's Official Gazette: oil-related issues
Venezuelan laws, decrees and resolutions take legal effect when they are published in the Official Gazette. Every issue posted on the official Gazette site is read daily. Issues that mention hydrocarbons, PDVSA, joint ventures, royalties or the Ministry of Hydrocarbons at least three times are listed here, with their table of contents quoted in the original Spanish and a link to the official PDF.
Ministry of Hydrocarbons appointments in the Gazette
Every 2026 issue on the official site
All issues listed on gacetaoficial.gob.ve this year, with the first item of each table of contents where it has been read. Filter by issuing body, topic, type of act or oil relevance. Topics and act types are classified by Sector Venezuela's automated models from each table of contents (Derived).
Duties and deadlines in Venezuela's oil rules
Reporting, filing and payment obligations stated in the rules on file (OFAC licence conditions, Decree 5,381 and the Hydrocarbons Law), quoted from the official texts, with the dated licence deadlines. Updated when a licence version or Gazette issue adds, changes or ends an obligation.
Key figuresEach figure links to its section
01ObligationsReported, filed or paid: to whom and when, as the text states
02Dated deadlinesLicence dates on file, each with its explainer and a calendar file
About Sector Venezuela
Sector Venezuela is a free website that monitors official sources on Venezuela's economic sectors, for investors and the people who advise them. Founded in 2026, it starts with oil: the rules in force (US sanctions and licences, Venezuelan laws, decrees and the Official Gazette, other governments' sanctions), official production and trade data, who controls each field, and dated changes, each linked to the official source. It is not affiliated with any government or official body, and it does not give advice, opinions or forecasts.
Coverage
Sources checked
| Source | What is recorded | Schedule |
|---|---|---|
| US Treasury, OFAC | Venezuela general licences and their versions, FAQs, sanctions designations | Daily |
| Federal Register | Executive orders and published licences | Daily |
| Gaceta Oficial de Venezuela | Laws, decrees and resolutions; oil-related issues identified and quoted | Daily |
| EUR-Lex, legislation.gov.uk | EU and UK Venezuela sanctions regulations | When amended |
| OPEC, EIA, US Census, UN Comtrade, Eurostat, CORES | Production, exports, imports by buyer country, customs values, freight | Daily, as each is published |
How items are labelled
- Official Government, regulator and company documents, quoted or restated with a link to the text.
- Reported News agency reports, kept until an official document confirms them.
- Derived Comparisons, classifications and figures derived from official texts or data by Sector Venezuela's automated models, with the method and the time of the last update shown.
In development
Planned; not yet available.
- Side-by-side text of each new licence version against the previous one.
- A weekly email: rule changes of the week and dates due the next week.
- A sanctions timeline from 2017 to today, from the official texts.
- More governments' rules under International, once their texts are checked.
Corrections
Corrections made to published data or text are listed here with their date. Routine data updates (a new month, a revised figure from the publisher) are not corrections and appear in the change log.
Privacy
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Contact and corrections requests
Legal notices and terms of use
Notices
Terms of use
Privacy: see Privacy. Corrections: see Corrections.
Sourcing methodology
Labels
Official A government document (Gaceta Oficial, ministries, White House, State Department, Treasury/OFAC, EIA, OPEC, customs agencies) or a company's own filing or press release.
Reported Wire press (Reuters, Bloomberg and similar), shown until an official document confirms it. When sources disagree, all versions are shown side by side.
Derived Calculated by Sector Venezuela's automated models from published figures (for example tonnes to barrels, or shares of a total); the method is stated next to the number.
The project does not estimate, forecast or give opinions.
How the models work
Every day Sector Venezuela's automated models collect official documents and data, scan news and filings for rule changes, track scheduled dates, check that every figure carries a source, and review the site's security. Summaries, explainers and translations are generated by the models from the cited sources.
Automated checks run on each update: every record must cite a source, official records are preferred, press reports stay labelled until an official document confirms them, and calculated figures state their method. Each day's changes are summarised in a daily brief.
Every change is dated in the change log, and every figure links to the document it comes from, so any statement can be checked independently.
Disclaimer
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Sector Venezuela collates and displays publicly available information for reference only. It is not investment, legal, tax or trading advice, and nothing here is a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any security or commodity, or to enter into any transaction. Figures are shown as published by their sources, which may revise, contradict or withdraw them; the project does not verify them independently and makes no warranty as to accuracy, completeness or timeliness. "Reported" items are press reports not yet confirmed by an official document. Nothing here is a statement on the legality of any transaction under US, Venezuelan or other sanctions or laws; check the primary documents and take professional advice before acting.
Sources
Every source cited on the site, with its label.