If T&T does ne­go­ti­ate new en­er­gy con­tracts with Venezuela, both coun­tries would have to get rid of the pre­vi­ous con­tracts that were signed and ne­go­ti­ate new ones that would ben­e­fit Venezuela and not on­ly T&T.

In an ex­clu­sive in­ter­view with the Busi­ness Guardian, Dr Ein­stein Mil­lán Ar­cia—a promi­nent for­mer PDVSA con­sul­tant and Venezue­lan en­er­gy an­a­lyst who has a PhD from Ok­la­homa Uni­ver­si­ty in the US—gave his views on the pre­car­i­ous re­la­tions be­tween the two coun­tries.

From 2016 to 2017, he was a per­son­al ad­vi­sor to for­mer Venezue­lan Oil Min­is­ter Nel­son Martínez and he does con­sul­tan­cy work through­out the Mid­dle East and Africa.