ENTRA Consulting and Actus Veritas Geoscience Announce Strategic Partnership for Venezuela Energy Intelligence and Project Execution

May 31, 2026
Actus Veritas Geoscience
Combined offering integrates market intelligence, subsurface intelligence, regulatory advisory, production facility assessment, and in-country execution to help operators and investors navigate Venezuela's reopening upstream sector.
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Houston, Texas - May 2026

ENTRA Consulting and Actus Veritas Geoscience have formed a strategic partnership to provide operators, investors, and energy companies with an integrated capability to evaluate, enter, and expand in Venezuela's upstream sector. The partnership combines ENTRA's 35+ years of hands-on Venezuela upstream experience, including active market intelligence, regulatory advisory, sanctions compliance, soft landing, and in-country execution across upstream, midstream, and infrastructure projects, with Actus Veritas Geoscience's in-depth subsurface intelligence, reservoir analysis, and regional petroleum systems expertise, delivered through a comprehensive geoscience suite built by some of the most recognized specialists in Caribbean and Venezuelan geology.

Venezuela's upstream sector has entered an active reopening phase following the new Organic Hydrocarbons Law, and the most competitive operators are already positioning themselves ahead of the formal announcement. Companies face a complex environment where investment decisions must be made quickly, based on incomplete or inconsistent information, under a challenging regulatory and sanctions framework. The combined ENTRA and Actus Veritas capability is designed specifically to address this challenge.

What the Partnership Delivers

ENTRA contributes five interconnected capability areas: continuous market intelligence and operator monitoring across Venezuela's upstream landscape, including a structured Venezuela Upstream Monitor and decision-maker mapping among key operators and institutional stakeholders; regulatory tracking, sanctions compliance, and capital repatriation advisory under Venezuela's evolving hydrocarbons and sanctions framework; transaction support, including legal and commercial due diligence, investment structuring, empresa mixta structuring and advisory, and negotiation of oil and gas agreements across upstream, midstream, and infrastructure projects; active soft landing and in-country execution through teams operating in Caracas, Maracaibo, Puerto La Cruz, and Maturín, with extensive knowledge of Venezuela's institutional framework and key decision-making processes; and comprehensive technical audit, condition assessment, and recovery strategy development for production facilities and surface infrastructure, with recent in-country experience across Venezuelan upstream and offshore assets.

Actus Veritas Geoscience contributes the U3 Explore suite, seven integrated product categories assembled and led by some of the most recognized subject-matter experts in Caribbean and Venezuelan petroleum geology. The suite covers curated Venezuelan field and reservoir data (422 commercial fields, 24,428 flow units, 86 attributes), Venezuela-specific GIS products, the Caribbean Atlas with play fairway maps and tectonostratigraphic frameworks, gravimetric interpretation products, a Deformable Plate Model, curated published production data, and integrating geochemistry analysis databases of approximately 900 South American crude oil samples. Each product is delivered under rigorous standards of peer review and technical excellence, enabling clients to undertake reservoir analysis, characterize resource and reserve uncertainty, and conduct competitive asset benchmarking alongside data access. Consultancy and mentorship services complement the suite through a collaborative engagement model.

Together, the partnership supports clients through:

  • Opportunity screening and ranking across offshore gas exploration and brownfield production assets.
  • Market intelligence, operator monitoring, regulatory advisory, and decision-maker mapping.
  • Subsurface data analytics, reservoir analysis, and petroleum systems analysis.
  • Resource and reserve uncertainty assessment and competitive asset benchmarking.
  • Sanctions compliance, capital repatriation advisory, commercial due diligence, and multidisciplinary legal services across corporate, regulatory, and transactional matters.
  • Economic and fiscal evaluation, market entry strategy, and transaction advisory.
  • Strategic studies for investment planning - tailored for operators, investors, and advisory mandates.
  • Comprehensive technical audit, condition assessment, and recovery strategy development for production facilities and surface infrastructure.
  • Soft landing, in-country operational support, and guided field visits.
  • Data room support, partner identification, and institutional relationship management.
"The reopening of Venezuela's upstream sector represents one of the most significant opportunity sets in the Western Hemisphere in a generation. Together with Actus Veritas Geoscience, we give our clients a complete capability, from identifying the right assets to executing on them.”

— Ricardo Colmenter, Director, ENTRA Consulting LLC

"Partnering with ENTRA brings the commercial, regulatory, and market intelligence execution capability that transforms our geoscience products into actionable investment decisions. Together, we cover the full spectrum from subsurface data to in-country execution, a combination that no other provider currently offers in this market.”

— Katya Casey, Managing Director, Actus Veritas Geoscience LLC

By combining real-time market intelligence, regulatory expertise, production facility assessment, reserve uncertainty assessment, soft landing services, and comprehensive subsurface data analytics, ENTRA Consulting and Actus Veritas Geoscience provide clients with a unique capability to move from uncertainty to actionable investment decisions with greater confidence, speed, and strategic clarity.

About ENTRA Consulting

ENTRA Consulting LLC is a Houston-based advisory firm founded fifteen years ago, with offices and active in-country operations across the Western Hemisphere including Venezuela. ENTRA advises investors, operators, and international energy companies on the identification, evaluation, structuring, and execution of energy and infrastructure opportunities in Latin America, spanning upstream oil and gas, midstream, renewables, and infrastructure. www.entraconsulting.com

About Actus Veritas Geoscience

Actus Veritas Geoscience LLC is a Houston-based geoscience intelligence company operating the U3 Explore suite of subsurface data and analytics products for Venezuelan basins and the broader Caribbean region. Assembled and led by some of the most recognized subject matter experts in Caribbean and Venezuelan petroleum geology, Actus Veritas provides curated, decision-ready geoscience intelligence for operators and investors evaluating Venezuela's oil and gas opportunities. www.actusveritas.com

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Media Contact

ENTRA Consulting LLC

Ronald Oribio  |  roribio@entraconsulting.com  |  11301 Richmond Ave, Houston TX 77082

Actus Veritas Geoscience LLC

Katya Casey  |  katya.casey@actusveritas.com  |  1334 Brittmoore Rd Suite 2405, Houston TX 77043

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Daniel Mujica

The purpose of this study is to provide a pore pressure prediction from seismic data targeting unconventional gas plays (i.e., the Qusaiba Member hot shale and the underlying Sarah Formation). The area of interest (AOI) located in NW Saudi Arabia, and is covered by 1,600 km2 of 3D pre-stack time migrated (PSTM) data. The resulting pore pressure maps for the Qusaiba Member hot shale and Sarah Formation highlight potential drilling hazards. Importantly, areas of higher pore pressure may ultimately represent potential areas of higher gas production (i.e., sweet spots).

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The purpose of this study is to provide a pore pressure prediction from seismic data targeting unconventional gas plays (i.e., the Qusaiba Member hot shale and the underlying Sarah Formation). The area of interest (AOI) located in NW Saudi Arabia, and is covered by 1,600 km2 of 3D pre-stack time migrated (PSTM) data. The resulting pore pressure maps for the Qusaiba Member hot shale and Sarah Formation highlight potential drilling hazards. Importantly, areas of higher pore pressure may ultimately represent potential areas of higher gas production (i.e., sweet spots).
The Cretaceous source rocks from East Venezuela - Trinidad - Guyana - Suriname basins, NE South America
Jan 7, 2020
Francia Galea Álvarez

The Cretaceous source rocks from East Venezuela - Trinidad - Guyana/Suriname basins, NE South America Stratigraphy, biostratigraphy and geochemistry data of Cretaceous source rocks from Eastern Venezuela Basin, South Trinidad, Guyana.

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The Cretaceous source rocks from East Venezuela - Trinidad - Guyana/Suriname basins, NE South America Stratigraphy, biostratigraphy and geochemistry data of Cretaceous source rocks from Eastern Venezuela Basin, South Trinidad, Guyana.
Supporting renewed interest in exploration of South Atlantic Margin: New Best Fit Plate Tectonic Model for South Atlantic Opening
Feb 20, 2019
Katya (Ekaterina) Casey

There is a renewed interest in exploration for oil and gas in deep and shallow waters of South Atlantic. The hopes are high especially with recent exploration success offshore Guyana and Mauritania. Delineation of the basins and mapping the extents of the pursued plays are two out of several critical components of the comprehensive geologic analysis and are fundamental to exploration success. During the last decade, deepwater drilling in South Atlantic proved multiple assumptions of the earlier geologic models of continent-ocean transition inadequate.

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There is a renewed interest in exploration for oil and gas in deep and shallow waters of South Atlantic. The hopes are high especially with recent exploration success offshore Guyana and Mauritania. Delineation of the basins and mapping the extents of the pursued plays are two out of several critical components of the comprehensive geologic analysis and are fundamental to exploration success. During the last decade, deepwater drilling in South Atlantic proved multiple assumptions of the earlier geologic models of continent-ocean transition inadequate.
Insights into Geological Framework of Northeastern South America
Dec 2, 2019
Marel Sanchez

The Northeastern South American margin is defined by Eastern Venezuelan and Guyana Basins bound to the south by the Guayana Shield and Demerara Plateau. The Margin is emerging as a potential major petroleum province with recent discoveries made in the new play types in Guyana basin with a prolific Cenomanian-Turonian source rock and mostly clastic reservoirs of Cretaceous age. Hydrocarbon production from mostly clastic reservoirs exists in the Eastern Venezuelan Basin onshore for more than 100 years but there was no recent exploration activity offshore.

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The Northeastern South American margin is defined by Eastern Venezuelan and Guyana Basins bound to the south by the Guayana Shield and Demerara Plateau. The Margin is emerging as a potential major petroleum province with recent discoveries made in the new play types in Guyana basin with a prolific Cenomanian-Turonian source rock and mostly clastic reservoirs of Cretaceous age. Hydrocarbon production from mostly clastic reservoirs exists in the Eastern Venezuelan Basin onshore for more than 100 years but there was no recent exploration activity offshore.
The lessons of Silicon Valley and why the model doesn’t fit Houston
Nov 21, 2019
Katya (Ekaterina) Casey

There is so much talk about building new Silicon Valley in Houston but I think there is very little understanding of what it really is and what should be built in Houston.

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There is so much talk about building new Silicon Valley in Houston but I think there is very little understanding of what it really is and what should be built in Houston.
Digital Transformation or Digital Maturation
Apr 15, 2019
Katya (Ekaterina) Casey

Steven Zobell in his article published by Forbes magazine in March of 2018 estimates that in 2018 enterprises will invest $1.3 trillion USD in Digital Transformation projects to “improve efficiencies, increase customer value and create new monetization opportunities”. In the same research, Steven analyses the reasons why 70% of these initiatives will not reach the objectives. AVGeo specialists were involved in digital workflow improvement projects in 2018 and would like to share our experiences and see if the predictions of Steve Zobell were correct.

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Steven Zobell in his article published by Forbes magazine in March of 2018 estimates that in 2018 enterprises will invest $1.3 trillion USD in Digital Transformation projects to “improve efficiencies, increase customer value and create new monetization opportunities”. In the same research, Steven analyses the reasons why 70% of these initiatives will not reach the objectives. AVGeo specialists were involved in digital workflow improvement projects in 2018 and would like to share our experiences and see if the predictions of Steve Zobell were correct.
Human Capital In a World of Analytics and Big Data in Exploration Workflows
Apr 1, 2019
Katya (Ekaterina) Casey

In this presentation, I've discussed human cognitive learning while working with different sets of Big Data in Petroleum Exploration workflows. An effective reduction in the volumes of Big Data without information loss, AI in seismic interpretation and spatial analytics, and a visual aggregation of the single-threaded evaluations into a comprehensive multithreaded business decision are required for delivery of successful exploration programs

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In this presentation, I've discussed human cognitive learning while working with different sets of Big Data in Petroleum Exploration workflows. An effective reduction in the volumes of Big Data without information loss, AI in seismic interpretation and spatial analytics, and a visual aggregation of the single-threaded evaluations into a comprehensive multithreaded business decision are required for delivery of successful exploration programs
My Take on Forecasting of Oil Prices
Aug 1, 2019
Katya (Ekaterina) Casey

I think the biggest driver in oil price vulnerability is a human factor once again and people tend to overreact to the bad news. They do not take the time to take a step back and to look at a longer trend.

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I think the biggest driver in oil price vulnerability is a human factor once again and people tend to overreact to the bad news. They do not take the time to take a step back and to look at a longer trend.
Opening a white page of 2019
Jan 1, 2019
Katya (Ekaterina) Casey

The New Year had started, and it's time to take an objective look at lessons learned in 2018, and the new opportunities ahead in 2019.

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The New Year had started, and it's time to take an objective look at lessons learned in 2018, and the new opportunities ahead in 2019.
Solving the Passive Margin Play Map Paradox offshore Uruguay – The Value Density Proposition
Oct 25, 2019
Katya (Ekaterina) Casey

Presented at First HGS/EAGE Conference on Latin America, November 2019 The existing perceptions of the offshore Uruguay petroleum system assessment may be challenged by an analysis of the failure modes of three exploration wells drilled in the basin. This is an underexplored basin with a poor exploration record. Arguably, the wells tested prospect-specific locations but left other plays of interest untested.

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Presented at First HGS/EAGE Conference on Latin America, November 2019 The existing perceptions of the offshore Uruguay petroleum system assessment may be challenged by an analysis of the failure modes of three exploration wells drilled in the basin. This is an underexplored basin with a poor exploration record. Arguably, the wells tested prospect-specific locations but left other plays of interest untested.
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