Two of Europe’s largest energy companies are struggling to recover payments worth about $6bn from Venezuela and are facing indifference from US officials about the debt, according to two people familiar with the situation.
For several years, Italy’s Eni and Spain’s Repsol have supplied Venezuela with large quantities of gas and naphtha, which is used to dilute the country’s heavy oil so it can be more easily transported.
The two companies jointly own the Perla gasfield off the Venezuelan coast, which underpins Repsol’s claim to provide roughly a third of the gas used for the country’s electricity generation.
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