CARACAS, Venezuela: Thirty-two privately operated Venezuelan oil fields returned to state control on Sunday with the start of the new year, the government said.
At midnight Dec. 31, a deadline expired for all private companies with contracts to independently pump oil here to agree to joint ventures that will give Venezuela's state oil company majority control.
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