WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is ready to block a Russian state-owned oil giant from gaining control of critical energy assets in the U.S. owned by Venezuela, senior American officials say, a move that likely would feed tensions between Washington and Moscow. Petróleos de Venezuela SA offered Russia’s PAO Rosneft nearly half of the shares of its U.S.-based subsidiary Citgo Petroleum Corp. as collateral for $1.5 billion in loans...

Source: Wall Street Journal August 31, 2017 14:00 UTC