Gavin Jackson
speaker
1,127 appearances
18 recordings
4 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 26 Jun
Gavin Jackson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I can't tell you the number of expletives that came out of my mouth when I was dealing with hearing that, because that's not the story.
Venezuela's oil industry has been decimated by 23 years of gross mismanagement.
They have damaged infrastructure.
In fact, a lot of their oil infrastructure has been cannibalized.
People were stripping copper out of equipment to basically sell it to make money.
They lost a lot of their real technical people.
In fact, a lot of them went to Canada after the 2002-2003 oil worker strike.
They have they have reservoirs that are very technical and difficult to extract from.
And they have two basic types of situations.
You'll hear about the Orinoco Belt, biggest reserves in the world, this kind of heavy, viscous hydrocarbon that's sitting in the in the
I guess it's the eastern part of the country.
And the idea is they're going to bring that back.
And it's kind of like trying to refine black Vaseline.
You actually have to refine it before you can add something to it to put in a pipeline to then go to an actual refiner.
It's really expensive.
And you're years and years away from really that even kind of mattering to the global oil balance.
And then you have Lake Maracaibo.
which are these thick, low-pressure reservoirs.
And again, when you disrupt output, you basically have to start over.
So you've got to re-drill, re-pressurize, re-frack all those wells.
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