Jan 3 (Reuters) - Venezuela's state-run oil production

and refining were operating normally on Saturday and suffered no

damage from a U.S. strike to ‌extract the country's president,

two sources with knowledge of the operations of ​energy company

PDVSA said.

U.S. forces captured President Nicolas Maduro, ‍U.S.

President Donald Trump said, after months ⁠of pressuring ⁠him over

accusations of drug-running and illegitimacy in power.

The port of ‌La Guaira near Caracas, one ​of the country's

largest but one not used for oil exports, was reported to ⁠have

suffered severe damage, one ‍of the ​sources said.

Trump in December announced a blockade of oil tankers

entering or leaving the country and ‍the U.S. seized two cargoes

of Venezuelan oil.

That lowered the OPEC country's exports last month to about

half of the 950,000 barrels per day (bpd) it shipped in

November, according to monitoring data and internal ​documents.

The ‍U.S. measures prompted many vessel owners to divert away

from Venezuelan waters, which has rapidly increased ​PDVSA's

inventories of crude and fuel.

PDVSA has been forced to slow down deliveries at ports and

store oil on tankers to avoid crude output or refining

cut-backs.

PDVSA's administrative system also has not fully recovered

from a cyberattack in December ​that forced it to isolate

terminals, oilfields and refineries from its central system and

to resort to written records to continue operations.