InvestmentsTop Global NewsMarketsReal Estate World Bank tribunal lowers ConocoPhillips award for Venezuela expropriation: document By financialnews_rlv83x - September 2, 2019 0 257 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.