Venezuela's PDVSA Total Debt Declined in 2018
Venezuela’s state-run oil company PDVSA said on Tuesday its debt fell 5% in 2018 from a year ago to $34.6 billion, though it remains in default on most of its bonds as crude output has slumped to 70-year lows in an economic crisis.
PDVSA, which is short for Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A., has not paid interest on most of its bonds since the end of 2017, and together with Venezuela’s government has accumulated nearly $8 billion in late interest payments, Reuters reported.
It has remained current on its 2020 bond, whose collateral is its US oil refining subsidiary Citgo.
Venezuela blames US sanctions for the payment problems. But critics of the socialist government say President Nicolas Maduro’s mismanagement of the economy and the OPEC nation’s oil reserves are the root of the country’s financial crisis.
PDVSA’s announcement, in the form of an advisory in a local newspaper, said it owed $24.7 billion to bondholders, down from $25.1 billion in 2017.
Two subsidiaries accounted for most of the decline: PDV Holding, which owns Citgo, and the Venezuelan Petroleum Corporation, which manages PDVSA’s joint ventures with foreign companies.
While US sanctions bar holders of PDVSA and Venezuela bonds from negotiating a possible debt restructuring, some investors are moving toward legal action to get the two parties to pay. Last month, a group of creditors demanded Venezuela make $1.5 billion in payments on its 2034 bond.
source: Financial Tribune
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