Venezuela Plans New Oil Deal With Total/Ministro Venezuela anuncia acuerdo con Total para llegar a 600.000 barriles

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Monday his government plans to sign new accords with French oil company Total S.A. to jointly run projects in the lucrative Orinoco River basin.
Chavez, whose government took majority control of the country's last private oil projects earlier this year, announced the plans to reporters outside his hotel in Paris late at night after arriving for talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy ( full information)/ El ministro venezolano de Energía y Petróleo, Rafael Ramírez, anunció hoy la firma con el grupo francés Total de un acuerdo para la explotación de los yacimientos de la faja del Orinoco que permitirá aumentar la producción de los 200.000 barriles diarios actuales a 600.000 ( información completa)