April 9, 2026

American multinational energy corporation Chevron is now importing an average of 250,000 barrels of Venezuelan crude oil per day into the United States, the BBC reported Tuesday.

According to recent reports, Venezuela’s monthly crude oil exports have once again surpassed one million barrels per day. Andy Walz – president of downstream, midstream, and chemicals at Chevron – confirmed to the BBC that the company is importing the equivalent a quarter of a million barrels of Venezuelan oil per day. The BBC detailed that the crude oil tanker Minerva Gloria recently docked at a wharf in the Mississippi sound, carrying 400,000 barrels of crude oil — an amount that, six months ago, would have been “impossible” to bring to the United States.

Following the January 3 U.S. law enforcement operation in Caracas authorized by President Donald Trump that resulted in the arrest of socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan regime, now under “acting president” Delcy Rodríguez, has begun collaborating with the U.S.

 

Chevron is now hauling in an average 250,000 barrels of Venezuelan crude a day, the BBC reports, as Venezuela’s monthly exports push back above 1 million barrels per day and a 400,000-barrel tanker unloads in Mississippi waters. The turnaround comes after the January 3 U.S. law enforcement operation in Caracas led to Nicolás Maduro’s arrest and sent the regime scrambling into cooperation with Washington, but the bigger picture is stark: Venezuela’s oil industry, gutted by years of socialist collapse, is suddenly back in the game as Iran’s war and Hormuz disruption squeeze global supplies. “It’s a big deal,” Chevron’s Tim Potter says — and for the Gulf and U.S. refiners, the stakes are only rising.

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