Gregory Brew

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Odd Lots · This Is What Maduro's Arrest Means for the Oil Market · 7 Jan 2026 podcast

At the same time, they were able to leverage their position with the Venezuelan governments and say, you need us.

You need us to stay because at some point things are going to get better and you are going to get increased international interest and investment.

And we were here first.

And you know, we we want to maintain this privileged position.

So all of that has combined to keep Chevron in Venezuela.

when other companies were willing to pull back.

And there's already been, I think, a response from Chevron following the Maduro operation.

They're talking about sending their teams back in, they're talking about expanding their profile there.

They're still very conscious of the security risks and the risks to personnel that exist, but

They want to hold on to what they have and they want to expand it.

And, you know, considering the cost, putting that to one side, Venezuela is still geographically a very attractive place to operate if you have lots of US downstream assets.

If you have refineries in the Gulf Coast and you want to get heavy sour crude to them, Venezuela is a great place to get that crude.

So I think it's become very clear that from the US point of view, getting Maduro out was the goal.

Overtaking the government, knocking the government down, having it replaced by a completely new power apparatus, completely new regime, bringing in the opposition, the democratic opposition.

That I don't think was ever on the cards.

This was about removing Maduro.

And I think, you know, you could make the argument that some of it was personal.

For President Trump.

He didn't like Maduro.

Maduro had been driving a hard bargain because they've been negotiating for months about what the US can get from Venezuela and what kinds of concessions that Maduro could offer.

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