Venezuela has more than 90 billion barrels of proven oil reserves.
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The Rob Carson ShowSep 7, 2026
The extracted claim departs from the passage: the post says a dozen-plus producing fields hold something like 90 billion barrels of proven reserves, not that Venezuela as a whole has more than 90 billion.
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… Wednesday night, Axios reported that the United States is now negotiating an ownership stake, not a lease, an ownership stake, in the Venezuela oil fields: more than a dozen producing fields with something like 90 billion barrels of proven reserves underneath the soil. You think about Maduro, removing Maduro, you realize that is the movement of one chess piece. Now we're seeing more chess pieces being moved and moving maybe toward checkmate for the globalist. …
The Rob Carson Show · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Contradicts. The claim's country-level scope is not contradicted: EIA reports Venezuela's proven crude reserves at about 303 billion barrels in 2023, the world's largest.[1][3]
Context. The passage refers to a dozen producing fields with about 90 billion barrels of proven reserves, which Axios reported as the scope of US stake talks, not the national total.[4][5][6]
Context. AP experts argue the 303 billion figure is inflated and estimate realistic proven reserves at 60 to 120 billion barrels, which overlaps the 90 billion threshold.[2][7][8]
Sources
8 sources: 2 fact-checkers, 1 primary, 5 not rated
- 1Trump won't turn Venezuela's OPEC membership into a ...reuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: contradicts
- 2Trump’s math on US deal for Venezuelan oil doesn't add up, experts say. The bad data began years agoapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 3[PDF] Country Analysis Brief: Venezuela - EIAeia.gov · primary source · cited for: contradicts
- 4Trump announces deal for huge US stake in Venezuelan ...thedailystar.net · not rated · cited for: context
- 5US eyes stake in Venezuelan oil as wars in Iran, Ukraine ...san.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 6According to Axios, the U.S. Is Closing in on a Massive ...finance.yahoo.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 7Venezuela claims to have 300Bn barrels of oil in the ...abcnews.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 8Venezuela claims to have 300 billion barrels of oil in the ground. But ...dnronline.com · not rated · cited for: context
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