A World Bank arbitration panel lowered an initial US$8.7 billion award to U.S. oil company ConocoPhillips as compensation for Venezuela’s 2007 expropriation of its assets to US$8.5 billion, according to a decision dated August 29 posted online.
Only vehicles from model year 2015 and earlier, traditional jeepneys, power plants and generators, and the marine and shipping sectors would be allowed to...