It would also be costly for nine Pdvsa employees.
Neither INEA nor Pdvsa immediately responded to requests for comment.
ERW line pipe to Pdvsa, material standard API 5L X65 PSL1.
Pdvsa's financial problems are likely to demand much of his attention.
Pdvsa didn't publish a 2017 report
and hasn't released financial results in 2018.
Its joint ventures with state oil company Pdvsa support about 8,800 people.
While Quevedo's militarization of Pdvsa hasn't reversed the company's decline,
the government shows few public signs of displeasure.
The mistake, the government said later, forced Pdvsa to pay the buyers, because of contractual penalties, $2.7 million.
Now, many Pdvsa workers can't feed their families on wages that
amount to a handful of US dollars a month.
The arrests have rattled Pdvsa employees, especially because soldiers
and intelligence agents have also detained workers at other facilities after mistakes.
Earlier this week,
the US company said it would continue to pursue Pdvsa's assets while trying to enforce the arbitration award.
Pdvsa also requested the customers stop sending
vessels to its terminals until it could load those that were already clogging Venezuela's coastline.
President Nicolas Maduro since
last year has overseen the arrest of dozens of oil executives, including the former energy minister and Pdvsa president.
Conoco tried to seize the inventory, but the dispute for missing storage fees between Pdvsa and NuStar added complications to the case.
Separately, the US DOJ has been investigating bribery plots involving
payments to Venezuela's state oil firm Pdvsa and charged five individuals last year.
The U.S. firm left the country after it could not reach a deal to convert its projects into joint ventures controlled by Pdvsa.
The firm left the OPEC-member nation after it could not negotiate a deal to convert its projects into joint ventures controlled by Pdvsa.
In Pdvsa's refineries, several small fires have broken
out because there are no longer enough supervisors, two sources in the northern Paraguana peninsula said.
Neither Venezuela's Information Ministry,
responsible for communications for the government and senior officials, nor Pdvsa's press office returned phone calls or emails from Reuters.
Venezuelan national oil
company Petroleos De Venezuela SA(Pdvsa), which holds the remaining 60 percent stake,
has not paid the dividend to Indian firm since 2009.
They wanted a word with the OPEC nation's oil minister and
president of its state-run oil firm, Pdvsa, about the sorry state of the company.
Separately, the U.S. Department of Justice has been investigating bribery plots involving
payments to Venezuela's state oil firm Pdvsa and charged five individuals last year.
The two Chevron employees had been facing possible treason charges for refusing to sign a parts contract for a joint venture with Pdvsa, sources said.
Reuters reported in late April that Pdvsa began making payments to some holders toward $100
million it owes in interest on a bond maturing in 2020.
Conoco said on Wednesday an international arbitration court
ordered Venezuela's state-run oil company, Pdvsa, to pay it $2.04 billion for early dissolution of two joint ventures.
But at an industry event in Vienna last June,
Quevedo told journalists Pdvsa is aware of its challenges
and hoped within months to make up for plummeting output.
At Pdvsa headquarters, Quevedo often walks through the offices
with a half dozen bodyguards who clear his path, according to one current and one former Pdvsa employee.
NuStar and Pdvsa also signed a new contract that reduces
the storage available to Pdvsa at the facility, while securing fees for about one year's worth of storage,
Venezuela's state-owned oil company, Pdvsa, has been placed on the Treasury Department's
Specially Designated Nationals list, which generally prohibits U.S. citizens from dealing with named firms or individuals.