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UGIZ Is Set To Capitalize On The Venezuela Oil Rush

  • Writer: Checkers
    Checkers
  • 3 days ago
  • 4 min read

Venezuela holds more proven oil than any country on earth, roughly 303 billion barrels, and until nine months ago American money couldn't touch a drop of it. That ended when the United States military pulled Nicolás Maduro out of power, and on Friday Washington announced a deal handing it control of more than 65 billion of those barrels. President Trump wants that crude in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which a year of wartime releases has left at its lowest level since 1982. Venezuela's oil industry spent twenty years rotting, though, so before the first barrel reaches a Louisiana salt cavern, somebody has to bring dead wells back online, patch corroded pipelines, and rebuild export terminals running at a fraction of capacity. Unique Global Innovative Solutions Corporation (OTCID: $UGIZ) intends to become exactly that somebody.


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A Letter of Intent signed with GBS Capital, the same firm behind IQSTEL (NASDAQ: $IQST), lays the plan out in two stages: UGIZ first rolls up service companies in Texas and other major American basins, businesses with cash flow, customers, and management already in place, so the company is earning revenue before it goes anywhere near Caracas. UGIZ has a market cap of under $500,000 today, with about 306 million shares outstanding and a functional float of roughly 266 million held at DTC, which is the structure the first cash-flowing acquisition lands on. Once that close is done, UGIZ plans to open an office in Venezuela and go after work with the operators already producing there and with the new projects the country just announced.


The Washington deal covers the development of 17 strategic oilfields with an initial production target of 1.5 million barrels per day, along with eight greenfield blocks beyond that. Venezuela currently produces about 1.25 million barrels per day, and Rystad Energy estimates the investment required to rebuild output over the next ten years at some $180 billion, money that gets paid out well by well to the drilling, workover, and engineering contractors doing the rebuilding. The operators leading the return do not do that work themselves: Chevron, which produces about 280,000 barrels per day in Venezuela through its joint ventures with PDVSA, contracts the field work out, and SLB delivers those services under Chevron's own license today. SLB is preparing to reactivate 15 idle rigs it expects fully booked within a year, and Halliburton says the licenses for its own return are certain to fall into place, in a market that ran more than 80 rigs in 2014 and counts two active rigs today. Demand that deep outruns any single contractor, and the overflow lands with whoever else is on the ground.


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Brent climbed back above $90 a barrel as the United States and Iran resumed strikes around the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway that moved about 20 million barrels a day before the war and is still moving less than half that. A gallon of gas nationally has risen to $4.08 from $3.21 a year ago, and Washington has been fighting that number with its emergency stockpile, releasing 172 million barrels in March alone. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve now holds about 290 million barrels, roughly 40% of its more than 700 million barrel capacity and its lowest level in 44 years. That gap is more than 410 million barrels, and filling it with Venezuelan crude puts years of guaranteed government demand underneath the rebuild.


Incoming CEO Javier Sanguino García ran this exact business in Venezuela for a decade, serving from 2007 to 2016 as CEO and President of Sepesa, a $50 million-plus oilfield services company whose engineering, field operations, and logistics teams all answered to him. He then took Sepesa into Colombia, building it from a standing start, assembling its team and winning its first clients, while directing engineering and infrastructure projects across Venezuela's energy sector as Director-Gerente of COSA. He now advises international capital on Latin American market entry as founder and Managing Director of WPR Global and Wise Fuel. Oilfield service work in Venezuela is awarded by operators who have to trust the contractor showing up, and Sanguino has spent thirty years alongside them.


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Further bolstering the company's positioning is Greentree Financial Group, the Fort Lauderdale advisory firm putting the deal together, which has been taking small public companies through audits, S-1 filings, and exchange uplistings since 1999. Greentree signed on as exclusive uplisting advisor to Fortun Holdings (OTCID: $FRTU) in October and had the Nasdaq application on file within two months. The stock had spent most of 2025 under a dime and hit $0.83 by late January, with a market cap above $60 million. At Victory Marine Holdings (OTCID: $VMHG), Greentree has been working behind the scenes for years and is now handling the Nasdaq push for new owner Dunn & Groux Beverage, and the stock went from $0.0008 to nearly $0.05 as that takeover came together back in March.


American capital has waited a generation for Venezuela to open, and it finally has, with the United States government itself leading the money in. The majors will take the marquee contracts, but $180 billion spread across ten years leaves work for everyone beneath them, and it goes to the companies already in the country when the spending starts. UGIZ is being assembled to be one of them: Texas cash flow underneath, an office in Caracas, and a CEO the operators there already know. None of this work existed for American companies until a week ago, and UGIZ is getting in line while it is still short.

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