{"id":20885,"date":"2013-11-03T07:30:34","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T12:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20885"},"modified":"2013-11-03T07:30:34","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T12:30:34","slug":"nationalizing-oil-rigs-in-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20885","title":{"rendered":"Nationalizing Oil Rigs In Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday the Associated Press<\/a> reported that PDVSA<\/a>, the government-owned oil producer in Venezuela<\/a>, seized control of two oil rigs owned by a unit of Houston-based<\/a> Superior Energy Services<\/a>. The company had shut down the rigs because the Venezuela oil monopoly was behind on payments.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Centeno (Jesus Centeno<\/a>, local operations manager for Superior in the city of Anaco<\/a>) said Superior stopped servicing PDVSA in July after negotiations broke down over millions of dollars in unpaid bills stretching back to December. Removal of the equipment will take a few days, so Superior is also feeding and sheltering the police officers and PDVSA crew on site, he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

During the seizure of the wells, PDVSA ordered the workers to load the rigs on to trucks to be deployed at \u201ccritical wells\u201d elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Nicolas Maduro<\/a>, the successor to Hugo Chavez<\/a>, has not taken over any industries during the six months he has been President of Venezuela<\/a>. This is the first move he has made in that direction. When Hugo Chavez began taking over industries, one news analyst observed that it would be difficult for him to keep those industries running at their profit levels without the knowledge of the companies that owned them. The seizure of these two rigs, which are repair rigs, is an illustration of that point.<\/p>\n

Like it or not, free enterprise generates more wealth for more people than socialism.<\/p>\n

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