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Originally Posted by 5abi
Common folks Venezuela once pumped 3mmbblday the knowledge to produce is there
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Some of those people didn’t just leave, they absolutely had to leave. Depending on your level and who you were, staying was not an option. I have a friend who was/is in that situation and while I won’t go into details here, they basically had to flee the country. We’re not talking about a drug lord or anything like that…we’re talking about an engineer in oil. Would they go back? I know they want to, because they loved their country. But obviously you’re not even considering that until you’re sure those issues are long gone.
So yes, at one point there was a lot of expertise and the oil industry was massive there. That all changed with Chavez and it got decimated. A lot of that knowledge and expertise went elsewhere around the world. Some ended up here, some in the US and some in the Middle East. That was 20 years ago, so those people have built lives, retired, etc.