After US President Donald Trump oversaw the seizure of his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolás Maduro last month, he vowed to tap the country's oil reserves – the world's largest.
But for the US oil firms that Trump wants to go into Venezuela, the question is a simple one - do the numbers add up?
In Trump's eyes, the raid that toppled President Maduro is a big business opportunity for the US oil sector, especially now that Venezuelan lawmakers have passed a bill allowing greater foreign investment in the sector.
"We're going to be extracting numbers in terms of oil like few people have seen," Trump said at a news conference in mid-January, after a meeting with energy bosses at the White House.
William Jackson, chief emerging markets economist at Capital Economics, says the US president's aim is to "revive Venezuela's oil sector and use that energy to increase supply and reduce costs to the consumer, possibly providing a source of revenue for a more friendly Venezuelan government to rebuild the economy after years of mismanagement".
