PDVSA & energy — Venezuela
PDVSA leadership, oil ministry, and the people running Venezuela's energy sector.
Profiles in this cohort: 8
Updated: September 2026
All pdvsa & energy we currently profile
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Asdrúbal Chávez
— Former PDVSA and Citgo President
Asdrúbal Chávez is a Venezuelan oil executive and a cousin of Hugo Chávez who served as president of CITGO and later as president of PDVSA.
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Delcy Rodríguez
— Acting President of Venezuela
Delcy Rodríguez is the Acting President of Venezuela, sworn in on January 5, 2026 after the U.S. military's capture of Nicolás Maduro. She is the senior figure foreign-investor and compliance teams now negotiate with on every Venezuelan counterparty question.
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Héctor Obregón
— President of PDVSA
Héctor Obregón is the President of Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) — Venezuela's state oil company — originally named by Nicolás Maduro in August 2024 and ratified by Acting President Delcy Rodríguez in March 2026.
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Manuel Quevedo
— Former PDVSA President and Oil Minister
Manuel Quevedo is a retired Venezuelan National Guard general who served as President of PDVSA and Oil Minister from 2017 to 2020, during a steep collapse in oil output.
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Pedro Tellechea
— Former PDVSA President and Oil Minister
Pedro Tellechea is a former President of PDVSA and Oil Minister of Venezuela — the executive who briefly led the Venezuelan oil sector during the OFAC General License 44 window before being removed in 2024.
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Rafael Ramírez
— Former PDVSA President and Oil Minister (in exile)
Rafael Ramírez led PDVSA and the Venezuelan oil sector for 14 years (2002–2014) — the longest run of any modern PDVSA president — and is now a prominent dissident living in exile.
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Richard Warke
— Canadian mining financier
Richard Warke is a Canadian mining financier and chairman of the Augusta Group whose Augusta Capital Corp. agreed in 2026 to invest up to US$200 million to help revive Venezuela's Siembra Minera gold project — one of the first large foreign bets on Venezuelan mining in years.
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Tareck El Aissami
— Former Vice President and Oil Minister of Venezuela (in Venezuelan custody)
Tareck El Aissami is a former Executive Vice President and former Oil Minister of Venezuela — long one of the most powerful figures in the Maduro government before being arrested in 2024 on corruption charges.