Venezuela is intensifying its coordination with oil markets as WTI Crude Oil prices rise sharply.

Entities

• Venezuela (place) gravity 0.0024 · momentum +0.006 · Q717
• WTI Crude Oil Price (indicator) gravity 0.0011 · momentum -0.012

Signals

• edge_weight_recent 78.2
• edge_weight_prior 2
• factor 39.1
• event_count_recent 150
• window_days 30

Confidence (62%) is computed numerically from these signals. The sentence prose was written by an LLM given only the structured signals as input, the LLM never sees or chooses the confidence number.

What would change our mind

Edge weight between Venezuela and WTI Crude Oil Price returns to its 30-day baseline, or two clean weeks pass with no fresh co-mention from a tier-1 source.

Inversion conditions are a property of the pattern detector, not the LLM. Watch for this signal move and the claim should weaken or be superseded.

Where the contributing events happen

Contributing events (13)

• 2026-09-09 11:45:00 · gdelt · 090 Investigate · tone -0.41
  Iraq pushes 6 million bpd baseline opec capacity review
  Iraq · Venezuela · WTI Crude Oil Price
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• 2026-09-07 15:30:00 · gdelt · 010 Make public statement · tone -1.69
  Venezuela opec exit structurally likely 07 sep 2026 184556 article
  Venezuela · Caracas · WTI Crude Oil Price · Washington · D.C. · Qatar
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• 2026-09-04 06:30:00 · gdelt · 042 Make a visit · tone -1.64
  Us 100bn venezuela oil bet faces years long wait
  Venezuela · Caracas · WTI Crude Oil Price
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• 2026-09-03 10:00:00 · gdelt · 040 Consult · tone -2.97
  Oil markets latam thursday september 3 2026
  Venezuela · WTI Crude Oil Price
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• 2026-09-03 09:30:00 · gdelt · 014 Consider policy option · tone -0.88
  Investment banks warn the venezuela deal will not bring down fuel prices
  Venezuela · Caracas · WTI Crude Oil Price
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• 2026-09-03 00:00:00 · gdelt · 010 Make public statement · tone -2.37
  Venezuelas opec exit structurally likely but not now
  Venezuela · Caracas · WTI Crude Oil Price
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• 2026-09-02 21:45:00 · gdelt · 026 Appeal · tone +3.85
  Latam venezuela united states majority control crude oil reserves
  United States · Venezuela · Italy · WTI Crude Oil Price · Caracas
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• 2026-09-02 19:30:00 · gdelt · 014 Consider policy option · tone -3.36
  Crude oil surges as U.S. iran flare up intensifies leaving hormuz reopening uncertain
  Iran · Venezuela · WTI Crude Oil Price · Hormuz
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• 2026-09-02 12:00:00 · gdelt · 042 Make a visit · tone -1.32
  Us energy secretary says venezuela oil output to more than double in next few years
  Venezuela · Caracas · WTI Crude Oil Price
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• 2026-09-02 10:45:00 · gdelt · 042 Make a visit · tone -1.13
  Us energy secretary says venezuela oil output to more than double in next few years
  United States · Venezuela · Washington · D.C. · WTI Crude Oil Price · Caracas
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• 2026-09-02 06:30:00 · gdelt · 042 Make a visit · tone -1.38
  Us energy secretary says venezuela oil output to more than double in next few years
  Venezuela · WTI Crude Oil Price
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• 2026-09-02 04:00:00 · gdelt · 042 Make a visit · tone -1.78
  Us energy chief says venezuela oil output to more than double in next few years
  Venezuela · Caracas · WTI Crude Oil Price
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• 2026-09-01 15:45:00 · gdelt · 046 Engage in negotiation · tone -1.31
  Venezuela oil concession betancourt china opec 2026
  Venezuela · Caracas · China · WTI Crude Oil Price
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Confidence history