Venezuela’s state-owned oil company PDVSA and British company Shell sat down at the same table again. This time, the outcome was five new service orders signed during a technical visit to the Amana Operations Center (COA), in the Carito-Pirital Field in Monagas state. News outlets covering the sector reported that the relationship between the two companies has entered a more operational, less ceremonial phase: fewer office photo ops and more fieldwork, equipment calibration, and certification.