Venezuela seizes $1.5 million in oil equipment set to be smuggled to Colombia

Venezuelan police seized two trucks loaded with $1.5 million in oil equipment that was to be smuggled into neighboring Colombia, the government said. Tubes for oil extraction and production belonging to state-run oil company PDVSA were uncovered in the western state of Zulia, the OPEC country's traditional crude-producing area that sits at the contraband-rife border with Colombia. Police started investigating following a report there was a plan to steal equipment from PDVSA's Topomoro production area, the Zulia state government said in a statement at the weekend. A Venezuelan driver has been arrested, it said. More…