... Woods' sceptical remarks ...

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... US president says company is playing too cute' after CEO responds sceptically to his push for oil investment after deposing Nicols Maduro. ...

Darren Woods told the US president that Venezuela would need to change its laws before it could be an attractive investment opportunity, ...

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... Woods told Trump on Friday: "We've had our assets seized there twice, and so you can imagine to re-enter a third time would require some pretty significant changes from what we've historically seen here."

Exxon's CEO said the company needed durable investment protections introduced and that the country's hydrocarbons law also needed to be reformed.

"If we look at the legal and commercial constructs and frameworks in place today in Venezuela today, it's uninvestable," he said.

ConocoPhillips' CEO, Ryan Lance, told Trump that his company was the largest non-sovereign credit holder in Venezuela, and called for a restructuring of the debt and the country's entire energy system, including PDVSA. ...

@#3

Yeah, Pres Trump is threaening (extorting?) the Exxon CEO because the CEO had the audacity to care about shareholder interests and investments.

Granted, I am not a fan of Big Oil.

However, it is worse to my eyes when the President seems to be extorting a CEO.