Chevron has requested to submit an opinion about a possible delay in the start-up of Venture Global’s second LNG plant, as the supermajor worries any delay would interfere with its delivery plans under a long-term contract with Venture Global. Venture Global has requested regulatory authorities to postpone the official commissioning …
Read More »U.S. Gives Chevron Green Light to Return to Venezuela
The Trump administration granted Chevron a sanction exemption for its operations in Venezuela but only on the condition that no money from these operations would go to the Venezuelan government, Reuters reports, citing unnamed sources in the know. A week ago, Reuters reported that the U.S. government was considering a …
Read More »Too Big to Merge? Exxon and Chevron might Think so
Earlier this week, Chevron completed its acquisition of Hess Corp. It was one of the largest deals in the oil and gas space in recent history, after Exxon’s takeover of Pioneer Natural Resources, finalized in 2024. With that out of the way, the question begs to be asked: could the …
Read More »U.S. Refiners Rethink Crude Sourcing after Chevron Gets Venezuela Green Light
U.S. refiners are reassessing Latin American crude sourcing strategies after President Donald Trump’s administration granted Chevron the authority to resume and expand operations in Venezuela, signaling a shift in sanctions enforcement that could revive heavy crude flows to Gulf Coast plants. The change follows more than a year of tightened …
Read More »PDVSA Grabs the Wheel as Chevron Gets the Boot
Venezuela’s state-run oil firm PDVSA is taking over crude shipments once managed by Chevron as sanctions drama and payment disputes derail the fragile oil détente between Washington and Caracas. PDVSA just shipped a 920,000-barrel cargo of heavy Boscan crude—previously exported exclusively by Chevron—out of Venezuela bound for Malaysia, a known …
Read More »Chevron, Shell, BP Target Egypt in LNG Power Play
The race has been on between the world’s leading powers to secure as much of the globe’s current and future liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies ever since Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022. Oil and gas prices started to rise quickly from that point, driving inflation higher across the …
Read More »Oil Majors Warn that Australia’s Natural Gas Policy could Make Shortages Worse
Shell, Chevron, and Exxon have warned the Australian government a proposal aimed at curbing natural gas shortages on the domestic market might end up making them worse instead. “The fact that the easiest lever the federal government now has to solve the southern gas problem is export controls, is not …
Read More »Chevron Expresses Interest in more Exploration Blocks Offshore Greece
U.S. supermajor Chevron has expressed interest in oil and gas exploration in two additional offshore blocks south of the Greek island of Crete, Greece’s Ministry of Energy and Environment said on Wednesday. Earlier this year, Greece said that Chevron had expressed interest in exploring the area southwest of the Peloponnese …
Read More »Chevron Needs Hess’s Guyana Oil Assets to Boost Reserves
Chevron is betting on the multi-billion acquisition of Hess Corp to boost its assets with high-quality Guyana acreage where billions of barrels of oil equivalent have been discovered. Chevron’s reserves replacement ratio has dropped in recent years and its oil and gas reserves have now declined to the lowest level …
Read More »Chevron and Exxon Target Data Centers with Reliable Gas Power
The supermajors are moving into power generation, tempted by forecasts of a looming surge in demand. Yet there is a twist: the temptation is natural gas generation. Wind and solar—typically described as green or clean power—are turning into a fiasco for Big Oil. Chevron and Exxon both recently said they …
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