Talk:PDVSA

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Many of Chaves' workers have been accused of being heterosexual bear-wrestlers. Chaves denied the claims. [5] Chaves' has stated several times that all of his workers are flaming homosexuals.
wtf? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.206.236.82 (talk) 04:07, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

3.2 trillion barrels of oil reserves
Basically, this figure should be contextualized. Proven reserves would be a much more appropriate figure to display instead (some 77.8 barrels, i think... if you include heavy oil you'd bring it up to some 310billion). The above figure really doesn't mean anything as of now. In fact, that figure creates the appearance that Venezuela has more oil than Saudi Arabia, which is doesn't. " Venezuela has 3.2 trillion barrels of oil reserves, according to PDVSA figures, the largest in the Western Hemisphere and making up approximately half the total. This puts Venezuela as fifth in the world in proven reserves of conventional oil." --Patpecz 20:52, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

ILO
In the article: "The International Labour Organization (ILO) sentenced that those employees must be reinstated in their jobs." In English, "sentenced" is not possible in this context: it means specifically the imposition of a punishment. I'm guessing that this is in the sense of the Spanish sentencia (English: "verdict" or, if an administrative rather than judicial context, "ruling"), but even so I'm not sure what it means to say. Was this a judicial hearing? Did Venezuela recognize the authority of the ILO in this matter? When exactly was this verdict/ruling made? As it stands, it's very confusing, it only hints at something. -- Jmabel | Talk 04:46, 25 October 2005 (UTC)


 * I searched the entire UN site, and can find no trace of this. The ILO has "conventions," and "recomendations," and can "voice concerns," but as far as I know, it is not a judicial body, it does not make judgements or impose sentences.  I am editing this entry with the one citation that I could find. --VonWoland 06:38, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Pdvsa.png
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Citgo percentage?
Is it 100% like it says in the article or 84.12% like it says in the info box? --199.227.86.10 (talk) 20:39, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 100%. The 82.14 was the (out-of-date) % for Electricidad de Caracas. I've updated the article, including the infobox. Rd232 talk 11:38, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Date of founding?
The article states that PDVSA was founded on January 1, 1976, but the sidebar claims that it was founded in 1975. Obviously, one of these is wrong. Can someone take a look at that? Bk2204 (talk) 17:59, 12 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Their website says 1975 --JRSP (talk) 01:12, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Suppport from Brazil
The article writes:"In December 2002 many of PDVSA's managers and employees (including the CTV trade union federation) locked out workers to pressure Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez to call early elections, and virtually stopped oil production for 2 months. The government fired 19,000 employees and reestablished production with employees loyal to the Chávez government."

Well, then Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso sent two big Brazilian oil tankers with many fuels to Venezuela, to support his friend Hugo Chavez. Brazilian governments are supporting Venezuela since Hugo Chavez took power.Agre22 (talk) 14:56, 22 August 2009 (UTC)agre22


 * You mean Lula, not Cardoso. You mean when Chavez was "voted into office", not "took power", which he didn't. He is dead.

"Politicization" section clearly POV
Clearly POV section. References are not neutral, wording is clearly anti-chavist, and quotes and references are highly selective in order to push an anti-Chavez POV. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.217.226.158 (talk) 08:02, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

What is PDVSA doing in sustainability engineering?
I would like the major fossil fuel company articles to indicate how they intend to transition to carbon-neutral fuels such as this work and "power to gas." I need to know whether they support emerging chemical engineering research such as catalysts for carbon-neutral transportation fuels, whether they are working on compressed air energy storage such as and, airborne wind turbines such as , and on extracting carbon from seawater such as this PARC method in order to solve their long-term corporate viability issues. I do not believe it is possible to have a truly balanced article on a fossil fuel company without some indication of their long term prospects. Tim AFS (talk) 04:29, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

I also need to know whether they are developing electrical grid energy storage in their existing expended oil and gas caverns along with mineshafts and mines for pumped-storage hydroelectricity where ordinary hydroelectric power is unavailable. Tim AFS (talk) 09:08, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

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Orphaned references in PDVSA
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of PDVSA's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "nasdaq": From BP:

 From 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis:  

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 14:18, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

Systemic bias tag
I see that you added the tag in this article last year in June, but the edit summary simply read "Updating template". Could you please provide more details about this? Best wishes, NoonIcarus (talk) 19:06, 24 February 2024 (UTC)