Quest Oil Corp. announced that it signed a contract to purchase land usage rights for 10 years for the exploration of oil production. This land is located in the Orinoco River in Eastern Venezuela.

It is estimated that the Orinoco region could produce up 1 million bbl. oil daily by the year 2020, a figure equal to half of Venezuela's current oil production. The technology needed to recover ultra-heavy crude oil, such as in most of the Orinoco Belt, may be much more complex and expensive than that of Saudi Arabia's light oil industry.