Gas is flared at the Jose Antonio Anzoategui oil complex in Barcelona, Anzoategui State, Venezuela, Sunday, July 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Gas is flared at the Jose Antonio Anzoategui oil complex in Barcelona, Anzoategui State, Venezuela, Sunday, July 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

View of the Jose Antonio Anzoategui oil complex in Barcelona, Anzoategui State, Venezuela, Sunday, July 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Gas is flared at the Jose Antonio Anzoategui oil complex in Barcelona, Anzoategui State, Venezuela, Sunday, July 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Gas is flared at the Jose Antonio Anzoategui oil complex in Barcelona, Anzoategui State, Venezuela, Sunday, July 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Gas is flared at the Jose Antonio Anzoategui oil complex in Barcelona, Anzoategui State, Venezuela, Sunday, July 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

A road leads to the Puerto la Cruz refinery in Puerto la Cruz, Anzoategui State, Venezuela, late Saturday, July 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

A woman and her son wait to cross the street near Puerto la Cruz refinery in Puerto la Cruz, Anzoategui State, Venezuela, late Saturday, July 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Youths talk to each other on a bridge near the Puerto la Cruz refinery in Puerto la Cruz, Anzoategui State, Venezuela, late Saturday, July 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

The Puerto la Cruz refinery in Puerto la Cruz, Anzoategui State, Venezuela, is seen late Saturday, July 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

In this April 25, 2013 photo, a surfer walks along the shore near the refinery el Palito in Moron, Venezuela. The oil flowing from the El Palito refinery sells for more than five times what it cost when President Hugo Chavez took office in 1999. Yet when Chavez died in March he left Venezuela's cash cow, its state-run oil company, in such dire straits that analysts say $100-a-barrel oil may no longer be enough to keep the country afloat barring a complete overhaul of a deteriorating petroleum industry. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

In this April 25, 2013, motorists drive past the El Palito refinery, near Moron, Venezuela. The oil flowing from the El Palito refinery sells for more than five times what it cost when President Hugo Chavez took office in 1999. Yet when Chavez died in March he left Venezuela's cash cow, its state-run oil company, in such dire straits that analysts say $100-a-barrel oil may no longer be enough to keep the country afloat barring a complete overhaul of a deteriorating petroleum industry. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

In this April 25, 2013 photo, people wait for transportation on a street corner in Moron, Venezuela. Oil prices are falling at exactly the wrong time for Venezuela's new government, which needs to pump more dollars from oil sales into an economy short of many key products. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

In this April 25, 2013 photo, a young man dives into Puerto Cabello's harbor, near El Palito refinery, Venezuela. The oil flowing from the El Palito refinery sells for more than five times what it cost when President Hugo Chavez took office in 1999. Yet when Chavez died in March he left Venezuela's cash cow, its state-run oil company, in such dire straits that analysts say $100-a-barrel oil may no longer be enough to keep the country afloat barring a complete overhaul of a deteriorating petroleum industry. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

In this April 25, 2013 photo, Zaida Eleonora Mejicano, a shop owner in the coastal town of Moron, complains of shortages of food and medicine in her town, which sits right next to Puerto Cabello, Venezuela. Venezuelans across the country are suffering from a drop in the price of oil, the country’s main source of foreign exchange and the resource that has allowed the government to go on a long spending spree that won it widespread support throughout much of the presidency of the late Hugo Chavez. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Rafael Ramirez, Venezuela's Minister of Energy and Petroleum, and president of the Venezuelan state-owned oil company Petroleos de Venezuela S. A. (PDVSA), holds up a book during PDVSA's 2011 annual management report at PDVSA headquarters in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday April 17, 2012. PDVSA reports its revenues increased in 2011 due to higher oil prices. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuela's Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez holds a bottle containing crude oil as he speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at Petroleum of Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA) headquarters in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday Aug. 5, 2011. Ramirez said Friday night that the country intends to increase production of heavy crude in the eastern Orinoco River basin by about 15 percent this year, and by 15 to 25 percent next year. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuela's Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at Petroleum of Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA) headquarters in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday Aug. 5, 2011. Ramirez said Friday night that the country intends to increase production of heavy crude in the eastern Orinoco River basin by about 15 percent this year, and by 15 to 25 percent next year. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuela's Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez holds up a bottle containing crude oil as he speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at Petroleum of Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA) headquarters in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday Aug. 5, 2011. Ramirez said Friday night that the country intends to increase production of heavy crude in the eastern Orinoco River basin by about 15 percent this year, and by 15 to 25 percent next year. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuela's Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez holds a bottle containing crude oil as he speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at Petroleum of Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA) headquarters in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday Aug. 5, 2011. Ramirez said Friday night that the country intends to increase production of heavy crude in the eastern Orinoco River basin by about 15 percent this year, and by 15 to 25 percent next year. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)