Mr. Chávez told reporters the torture allegations were made up, and he accuses the opposition of sabotage -- work stoppages, destroying the oil-exporting infrastructure and the coup of 2002, when he was ousted by military officers and opposition leaders for 47 hours.
Still America's pipeline infrastructure connecting many gas-producing regions with export infrastructure or domestic markets could use more improvements.
This "Northern Gateway" consortium, which includes America's Amoco and Conoco, has been looking at ways to bypass Transneft by building new export infrastructure of its own.
But the deeper problem is a $93bn gap in infrastructure financing – a gap that leaves African farmers without the roads, storage facilities and export infrastructure needed to exploit market opportunities.
As the rebels advanced along the coastal road between Brega and Ras Lanuf, sites of two big refineries, the towns' export infrastructure was knocked out and the country's gas network was cut in half.
Cincinnati chili has never really caught on outside the region bounded by Columbus, to the north, Indianapolis, to the west, and Kentucky, to the south, so there's not much of an export infrastructure.
Other administration officials have suggested that China might buy enormous quantities of liquefied natural gas, though there are questions about the volumes that the limited U.S. export infrastructure could handle.
Asked why it had taken so long to hit Isis's oil export infrastructure, US officials described how it had taken some time to draw up a plan that would not kill the drivers of fuel tankers used by Isis to export Syrian oil.
But the two never agreed on the transit fees that Juba should pay for using Sudan's oil export infrastructure.
Metallurgical Corp. of China will build the mines and associated export infrastructure, which includes a new port near Bowen, Queensland, and a new 500-kilometer rail link.
