The acting President of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, announced the export of the first shipment of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) from Venezuela, marking a “historic milestone” for the country and highlighting the achievement as an impulse to the well-being of the Venezuelan people.

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“The ship Chrysopigi Lady set sail from Venezuela with the first shipment of Liquefied Petroleum Gas. Together with the working class, we mark this historical milestone by exporting the first gas molecule from the country; an achievement for the well-being of the people,” said Rodriguez as she shared the historic moment on social media.

Previously, on January 16, the acting president had reported during the National Council of Productive Economy that, for the first time in its history, Venezuela signed a contract for the commercialization of LPG, a step that positions Venezuela as an emerging power in this area, beyond oil.

“We had said it, we had announced it: that we would export the first gas molecule and we are fulfilling it. We are fulfilling President Maduro and we are fulfilling our people,” she said on that occasion.

She also commented that this milestone is part of the efforts of the national hydrocarbon industry to improve its production levels. As an example, she highlighted that Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA) reached a production of 1,200,000 barrels per day, a figure not recorded since 2015, before the imposition of unilateral coercive measures by the United States. In addition, she stressed that all the gasoline consumed in 2025 was of national production.

More recently, on January 25, in a meeting with oil sector workers at the Puerto La Cruz refinery in Anzoátegui state, Rodríguez said that the goal is to transform the world’s largest crude oil reserves and the hemisphere’s vast gas reserves into tangible prosperity for the Venezuelan people.

“Now it is our turn to become the country with the largest oil reserves in the world, with the largest gas reserves in this hemisphere; now it is our turn to become a true oil and gas producing power,” he said.

In recent weeks, the Bolivarian Government created two sovereign funds (social protection and infrastructure and services) to dedicate income from oil sales to the country’s economic and social development and transform them directly into benefits for the population, establishing a financing mechanism that prioritizes the nation’s most urgent needs.

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