Exclusive: Venezuela's PDVSA cuts crude blending, output as inventories rise - sources, documents

(Reuters) - Venezuela's state-run oil company Petroleos de Venezuela has cut crude production at several locations and its main crude blending plant has been operating intermittently this month due to mounting stockpiles, according to a half-dozen industry sources and documents seen by Reuters.Venezuela's oil industry has been squeezed by more than a year of sanctions from the United States, and in recent months the Trump administration has increased the pressure on some of the remaining buyers..