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Venezuela offers oil far below the price

Local | By Correspondent March 13, 2020

CARACAS - Venezuela offers its oil far below the market price. In doing so, she wants to entice traders to buy oil, despite US sanctions.

A barrel of Venezuelan crude oil is well below the price of a barrel of Brent oil. It now costs $ 37 a barrel, while Venezuelan oil costs $ 16. The Brent oil is already historically low because of the coronavirus and a price war between the major producers Russia and Saudi Arabia.

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