Matt Randolph
speaker
6,441 appearances
30 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard yesterday
Matt Randolph’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So all oil that pretty much leaves Venezuela today has to go through upgrading.
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Like you can't even pump it through a pipeline.
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Like you can't transport it on a tanker.
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their current capacity to do that is actually less than their current production.
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Um, any oil we get from Venezuela goes straight into refining.
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Uh it's blended with lighter oils and it's refined to make refined products and it's either sold within or outside the United States.
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None of the Venezuelan oil really goes into the SPR.
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not.
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And and here's the thing.
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Uh it's not sixty five billion barrels.
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And the truth is it wouldn't matter if it was or it wasn't, because you don't get all that oil.
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That's that's not a thing.
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Their ten year timeline th that they're hoping to achieve is to produce one and a half million barrels a day out of that.
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That's their ten year goal.
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So the sixty five billion barrel talk, like
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None of that matters.
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You're never gonna get even a billion barrels out of it, likely.
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Um, so here's the thing.
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When Hugo Chavez was in charge and
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Venezuelan oil was really climbing, their oil production was climbing.
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