American Power Institute founder and CEO Jason Isaac discusses President Donald Trump’s push to decrease oil costs and the position Venezuelan oil might play on ‘The Backside Line.’
President Donald Trump is internet hosting a gaggle of high oil executives on the White Home to debate funding in Venezuela following the navy’s profitable seize of the nation’s dictatorial president, Nicolás Maduro, and his spouse over the weekend.
“Following the announcement of President Trump’s historic vitality cope with Venezuela, American oil firms will come to the White Home to debate funding alternatives that can restore Venezuelan oil infrastructure,” White Home spokeswoman Taylor Rogers instructed Fox Information Digital Friday morning.
“The American individuals, vitality firms, and the Venezuelan individuals will all tremendously profit from these new, unprecedented investments in Venezuela’s oil infrastructure, because of President Trump.”
Fox Information Digital realized that the prolonged lineup of oil firms consists of Chevron, Exxon, ConocoPhillips, Continental, Halliburton, HKN, Valero, Marathon, Shell, Trafigura, Vitol Americas, Repsol, Eni, Facet Holdings, Tallgrass, Raisa Power and Hilcorp.
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A pump jack stands close to an oil spill at a Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) facility within the Orinoco Belt of El Tigre, Venezuela. (Bloomberg/Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)
Trump shall be joined by a handful of Cupboard members as effectively, together with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Power Chris Wright and Secretary of the Inside Doug Burgum.
Trump introduced a profitable strike on Venezuela Saturday morning in a navy operation that didn’t kill any U.S. navy personnel, and led to the arrests of Maduro and his spouse, Cilia Flores, on sweeping narcotics fees. The couple was transported to New York Metropolis and pleaded not responsible within the case throughout their arraignments Monday.
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They’re being held on the federal Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn, New York.
President Donald Trump within the Oval Workplace of the White Home on December 15, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)
Venezuela is an oil-rich nation, with Trump asserting shortly after the operation that the U.S. would “run” the South American nation, with out going into particulars about what that might entail.
He introduced on social media Tuesday that Venezuelan oil will instantly be turned over to the U.S., together with “between 30 and 50 MILLION Barrels of Excessive High quality, Sanctioned Oil, to the US of America.”
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“This Oil shall be offered at its Market Value, and that cash shall be managed by me, as President of the US of America, to make sure it’s used to profit the individuals of Venezuela and the US! I’ve requested Power Secretary Chris Wright to execute this plan, instantly. It is going to be taken by storage ships, and introduced on to unloading docks in the US,” Trump wrote.
He added that by means of the deal, “Venezuela goes to be buying ONLY American Made Merchandise, with the cash they obtain from our new Oil Deal.”
Venezuelan chief Nicolás Maduro and his spouse are being held in New York Metropolis, the place they are going to be tried for numerous crimes. (Matias Delacroix/Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)
Trump instructed The New York Occasions Wednesday in a prolonged interview that he anticipated the U.S. will run Venezuela and extract oil from its reserves for years.
Chevron is presently the one U.S. oil firm working in Venezuela, Fox Enterprise beforehand reported, whereas ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil had operations within the nation earlier than the regime nationalized their belongings.
The oil leaders are anticipated to debate plans for investing in Venezuela to permit oil manufacturing to ramp up within the nation.
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Fox Enterprise’ Eric Revell contributed to this report.
