{"id":1936,"date":"2025-11-10T21:58:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T21:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vujic-geopolitika.com\/?p=1936"},"modified":"2025-11-10T21:58:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T21:58:55","slug":"petro-venecuela-u-trouglu-vasington-rijad-peking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vujic-geopolitika.com\/en\/2025\/11\/10\/petro-venezuela-in-the-triangle-washington-riyadh-beijing\/","title":{"rendered":"Petro-Venezuela in the triangle Washington-Riyadh-Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The upcoming visit of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to Washington in mid-November, will show whether the largest Sunni monarchy sees America as a key strategic partner in the period of fragmentation of the current world order. That is, indirectly, does the official Riyadh intend to further expand the lines of cooperation with China? For example, the navies of Saudi Arabia and China held the third military-naval exercise (“Blue Sword”) in the Persian Gulf in October. At the same time, Chinese oil imports from Saudi Arabia have been on the rise since autumn (https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/energy\/saudi-crude-oil-supply-china-set-surge-october-trade-sources-say-2025-09-11\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, from the meeting between US President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House, it may become clearer whether Riyadh has in mind rapprochement with some other countries, for example with Venezuela.<\/p>\n

Where did the mention of Venezuela come from?<\/p>\n

On the one hand, because Venezuela and Saudi Arabia are the first and second countries on the global list of petro-countries with the largest proven oil reserves (303 billion barrels, respectively 267.2 billion barrels). Petro-giants of such potential, Caracas and Riyadh in some ideal world, should be multidimensional partners long ago. That there are current thoughts about this\u2014seemingly quite “sideways”\u2014is evidenced by the presentation of Leticia Gomez, Minister of Tourism of Venezuela, these days in Riyadh, during the UN General Assembly on Tourism. There are “extraordinary” opportunities for the development of tourism cooperation between Venezuela and Saudi Arabia, emphasized Minister Gomez, emphasizing the intention of the official Caracas to make Venezuela a “gateway” for travellers intending to that region of Latin America. (https:\/\/english.aawsat.com\/business\/5206898-venezuela-says-%E2%80%98extraordinary%E2%80%99-opportunities-available-tourism-cooperation-saudi<\/a>). By the way, China is currently the leading buyer of Venezuelan oil and an active petro-investor (in the region of Lago di Maracaibo, on the photo).<\/p>\n

(https:\/\/venezuelanalysis.com\/news\/venezuela-oil-industry-navigates-sanctions-places-90-percent-of-exports-to-china\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, things about Venezuela’s oil are getting more and more complicated.<\/p>\n

Namely, the USA – the world’s leading oil producer, recently sent a super-powerful armada to the direction of Latin America, especially Venezuela. All with the official explanation that it is a decisive fight against illegal drug smuggling in the USA. A fight in which more than 60 people have already been killed on the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, observers are increasingly questioning Washington’s “anti-drugs ” argument.<\/p>\n

Thus, the media house bne IntelliNews<\/em> (based in Berlin) states that: “Data from the US intelligence services show that Venezuela is not a major transit route for cocaine and that it does not produce or export fentanyl, the synthetic opioid responsible for the majority of overdose deaths in America.” https:\/\/www.intellinews.com\/is-venezuela-s-resource-wealth-trump-s-real-target-409446\/<\/a><\/p>\n

At the same time, the narrative\u2014that the “military-naval siege” of Venezuela is in fact a possible excuse for the ambition to take over Venezuela’s oil fields\u2014is increasingly present (in the Lago di Maracaibo area, on the photo).<\/p>\n

(https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/11\/04\/us\/politics\/trump-weighs-attacks-venezuela.html<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The connection of Venezuela with the question \u2014about the possible profile of further relations between Riyadh and Washington, could be guessed and from the indicators of how much (record) American oil refineries in the American Gulf have been importing heating oil from the Middle East in recent months. (https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/energy\/us-gulf-coast-fuel-oil-imports-hit-25-year-high-amid-venezuelan-russian-2025-10-02<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The record growth reported by Reuters is the result of the fact that more desirable “heavier” petro molecules from Venezuela and Russia are currently unavailable to US refineries (both petro-states are under the growing regime of US sanctions and pressure). Meanwhile, the “lighter” petro molecules from the Arabian Peninsula that are on offer to American refineries simply do not have “all that” that different petro-molecules from Venezuela would bring them.<\/p>\n

It could be expected that, in the absence of a clear bow from Riyadh towards Washington this month, the American armada in front of Venezuela will become even more forceful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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