EAI brief: Chevron said to have sent 11 oil tankers to Venezuela

BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA (By Ana Sanches, Energy Analytics Institute, 6.Jan.2026, Words: 188) — Houston-based oil company Chevron Corporation, the only authorized exporter of Venezuelan crude oil, has sent a flotilla of at least 11 oil tankers to the Caribbean nation.

This, following the arrest of Venezuela’s leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife on 3 Jan. 2025.