Venezuela with some 301,000 MMbbl (billions of barrels) of known reserves has about 12% more hydrocarbon reserves than Saudi Arabia. Delivering oil from Venezuela to Texas takes some 2-4 days. He worked for over 30 years with the World Bank and the World Health Organization around the world in the fields of environment and water. Venezuela [is] in the limelight, on practically all the written, audio and visual mainstream media, as well as alternative media. However, he has already invited US petrol companies to come to Venezuela and invest in and take over the petrol industry.