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Caracas, January 26th, 2009 – With a deluxe photographic edition which narrates through its experience the last 25 years of oil history in Venezuela, Suelopetrol a corporation dedicated to hydrocarbons business, commemorates its birth.

The title of the book, Imaginando la Tierra, evocates the work that Suelopetrol has undertaken by penetrating the core of the national territory, from the Andes to the Pantano Oriental, its crews have sorted all kind of obstacles to obtain an image of the subsoil.

The book gathers the efforts of its founders and its work force to raise a Venezuelan oil company that nowadays is at the level of the foreign corporations that develop activities of exploration and production.

In 25 years, Suelopetrol not only has become a certificated operator of oil fields but also has expanded its operations to Mexico, Houston (United States) and Ecuador, where it is currently producing oil in Pucuna and Singue Fields in the Amazonia.

The photographers Rodolfo Benitez, Esteban Bianchi, Carlos Hernandez and Ramon Lepage are the responsible for the photos in the book and let the reader to appreciate the evolution of the exploration works for searching oil in Venezuela, the seismic surveys techniques and event the extraction of the main resource of export in the country.

In a complete chapter, the vast and beautiful landscapes of the Delta del Orinoco, shows the social work that Suelopetrol has undertake for the etnia warao through the JaKeRaJa Foundation, its social arm.