Sanctions compliance
Working to obtain the necessary authorisations, with any Venezuela-related activity subject to applicable U.S. law, OFAC-administered sanctions and Venezuelan requirements.
Conventional oil & gas investment
Identifying investment opportunities in Venezuela
Autana Energy is an investment vehicle being built to identify, evaluate, structure, seek to acquire and fund interests in conventional oil and gas assets in Venezuela.
Venezuela focusConventional upstream assets under evaluation
Technical judgementSenior upstream experience within Autana's team
Compliance-firstAuthorisations and legal requirements precede activity
Current activities
Building the basis for disciplined investment
Autana's work today is focused on compliance, opportunity identification and engagement with qualified capital partners and institutional counterparties.
Opportunity identification
Screening conventional assets for production history, original oil in place, wellbore inventory, restorable infrastructure, technical potential, operational constraints, counterparty profile and a clean compliance profile.
Investor engagement
Engaging qualified investors, capital partners and institutional counterparties regarding potential acquisition, redevelopment and restoration of production, with detailed materials available under NDA.
Technical judgement
Experience belongs to the team. Investment decisions belong to the evidence.
Autana's team brings decades of upstream experience in geoscience, reservoir engineering, well intervention, artificial lift, production optimisation, enhanced oil recovery and field development.
That experience is applied to technical due diligence, asset evaluation and the assessment of possible post-acquisition strategies. Autana Energy does not currently operate fields.
About the teamInvestment discipline
Capital follows technical evidence and legal readiness
Each opportunity is assessed before an investment decision, with capital intended to be deployed progressively only where the technical case, counterparty profile and compliance basis support it.
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Production history
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Original oil in place
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Wellbore inventory
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Restorable infrastructure
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Compliance profile
Strategic priority
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Venezuela is the current focus
Autana is focused on identifying conventional Venezuelan oil and gas opportunities that can meet its technical, economic, counterparty and compliance requirements. Other markets may be screened only as part of a broader future strategic scope.