U.S. appeals court is letting one of Venezuela’s creditors resume efforts to take control of Citgo Petroleum Corp. and raising the odds of a forced sale for the South American nation’s largest seizable asset in the U.S.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Monday lifted a stay that had frozen attempts by Crystallex International Corp., a defunct Canadian gold miner, to wrest Venezuela’s 100% ownership stake in Citgo as compensation for a $1.4 billion government debt