PDVSA added $6.8bn in debt in 2012

An oil worker walks past a drilling rig at an oil well operated by Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA in Morichal July 28, 2011. Venezuela received an enviable honor last month: OPEC said it is sitting on the biggest reserves of crude oil in the world -- even more than Saudi Arabia. But the Venezuelan oil industry is also sitting atop a well of trouble. Picture taken on July 28, 2011. To match Special Report VENEZUELA/PDVSA REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins (VENEZUELA - Tags: ENERGY POLITICS BUSINESS)

Debt load: PDVSA tacks on more financing in 2012

Carlos Garcia Rawlins

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Kathrine Schmidt

 24 January 2013 22:48 GMT

Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA added $6.89 billion to its debt load in 2012 as the company continued its contributions to social programmes, it said in a statement.

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