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Mene Grande
Mene Grande is a town on the eastern side of Lake Maracaibo in the Venezuelan state of Zulia. In 1914 the Zumaque I well, drilled there by the Caribbean Petroleum Company, an affiliate of Royal Dutch Shell, opened the first commercially significant oilfield in Venezuela. The discovery began the oil industry that transformed the country's economy in the following decades.
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