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Katie Greifeld

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
338 total appearances

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Bloomberg Talks
Chevron CEO Talks First AI Data Center Power Project

So we've got a very strong track record of distributing free cash to shareholders.

Bloomberg Talks
Chevron CEO Talks First AI Data Center Power Project

And at any price, we're well positioned to do that.

Bloomberg Talks
Chevron CEO Talks First AI Data Center Power Project

Oh, yeah, absolutely.

Bloomberg Talks
Chevron CEO Talks First AI Data Center Power Project

Our dividend, we increased our dividend during COVID when prices were

Bloomberg Talks
Chevron CEO Talks First AI Data Center Power Project

you know, in the teens and went negative for a while.

Bloomberg Talks
Chevron CEO Talks First AI Data Center Power Project

And so we've got to prepare for the volatility of a commodity business.

Bloomberg Talks
Chevron CEO Talks First AI Data Center Power Project

That's the business that we're in.

Bloomberg Talks
Chevron CEO Talks First AI Data Center Power Project

And we built a portfolio that will withstand the cycles of this business.

Bloomberg Talks
Chevron CEO Talks First AI Data Center Power Project

Well, I think oil prices in 2026 are likely to feel more pressure than LNG prices.

Bloomberg Talks
Chevron CEO Talks First AI Data Center Power Project

There's a lot of oil supply that's coming back from the OPEC plus countries that had been holding supply back.

Bloomberg Talks
Chevron CEO Talks First AI Data Center Power Project

And so that is has brought crude prices lower than they had been for the prior period of time.

Bloomberg Talks
Chevron CEO Talks First AI Data Center Power Project

LNG is a little bit of a longer dated story where there are a lot of new projects underway in the Middle East and in the United States.

Bloomberg Talks
Chevron CEO Talks First AI Data Center Power Project

that will add supply in large chunks over the second half of this decade.

Bloomberg Talks
Chevron CEO Talks First AI Data Center Power Project

Demand tends to grow in a linear fashion, and you get a step change in new supply.

Bloomberg Talks
Chevron CEO Talks First AI Data Center Power Project

And so there's a period of time when it would appear we're going to see more supply coming into the market than demand will be able to absorb.

Bloomberg Talks
Chevron CEO Talks First AI Data Center Power Project

That probably results in lower spot prices.

Bloomberg Talks
Chevron CEO Talks First AI Data Center Power Project

That's the commodity business that we're in.

Bloomberg Talks
Chevron CEO Talks First AI Data Center Power Project

Well, one of the things we talk a lot about today was not the power demand of AI, but what we can do with AI to improve our business, to make our business safer, to reduce emissions, to improve asset productivity, to improve efficiency, to improve our ability to explore for and find resources.

Bloomberg Talks
Chevron CEO Talks First AI Data Center Power Project

And I think the story of technology in our industry is it only goes in one direction.

Bloomberg Talks
Chevron CEO Talks First AI Data Center Power Project

It helps us do things at lower cost and higher efficiency.