1. ConocoPhillips Returns to Venezuela: Team on Ground to Assess Oil Prospects After Decades-Long Seizure
ConocoPhillips has taken a concrete step back into Venezuela, dispatching a team to evaluate the prospects for a return to drilling in the oil-rich nation. This move comes nearly two decades after the socialist regime of Hugo Chávez seized billions of dollars of the company's assets, a nationalization that defined a ho...