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crude oil is Venezuela. In early February, Venezuela’s state-run oil company PDVSA imported a 550,000-barrel cargo of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) through its U.S.-based Venezuela started importing foreign crudes in 2014 amid a fall in its own production—buying mostly Angolan and Nigerian light grades.
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