{"id":16265,"date":"2025-12-04T04:59:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T04:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/?p=16265"},"modified":"2025-12-04T04:59:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T04:59:39","slug":"venezuelas-oil-exports-top-921000-bpd-in-november-defying-u-s-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/16265\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela\u2019s Oil Exports Top 921,000 bpd in November, Defying U.S. Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"description\"><p><span class=\"pre-content-text\"><a style=\"color: #0038a8;\" href=\"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/\">RoydadNaft &#8211; <\/a><\/span>\u00a0Venezuela\u2019s crude and fuel exports rose 3% month-on-month to an average of 921,000 barrels per day in November, marking the third-highest monthly figure of 2025, according to shipping data and internal PDVSA documents seen by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The increase came despite a major fire last month that knocked out a key upgrader in the Orinoco Belt and intensifying U.S. political and military pressure, including naval operations in the Caribbean targeting alleged drug-trafficking vessels.<\/p>\n<p>State-owned PDVSA offset the loss of upgrading capacity by sharply raising imports of diluents \u2014 particularly heavy naphtha \u2014 which more than doubled to 167,000 bpd from 74,000 bpd in October. Chevron supplied U.S.-origin naphtha under its Treasury license for joint-venture operations, while additional volumes arrived from Russia and other suppliers.<\/p>\n<p>The extra diluent allowed PDVSA to keep blending exportable grades of Merey heavy crude and maintain flows to international markets.<\/p>\n<p>Key November figures:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Total crude + fuel exports: 921,000 bpd (+3% vs October, \u20135% vs November 2024)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>China: ~746,000 bpd (80% of total exports)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>United States (via Chevron): 150,000 bpd (up from 128,000 bpd in October)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Cuba: 24,000 bpd of crude and refined products<\/p>\n<p>\u2022<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Byproducts &amp; petrochemicals exports: 277,000 metric tons (up from 195,000 tons)<\/p>\n<p>Despite the visible presence of U.S. military vessels in regional waters, tanker traffic and import\/export operations continued uninterrupted, supported by existing inventories and the rapid ramp-up in diluent arrivals.<\/p>\n<p>The November performance underscores Venezuela\u2019s growing reliance on imported naphtha and foreign partners to sustain production and exports in the face of chronic infrastructure failures and tightening sanctions.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-date no-social-btn post-updated\">Updated on<time class=\"updated dt-updated\" itemprop=\"dateModified\" datetime=\"2025-12-04T04:59:39+00:00\"> 4 December 2025<\/time><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Venezuela\u2019s crude and fuel exports climbed 3% in November to 921,000 barrels per day, the third-highest monthly level of 2025, Reuters reports.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47,46,36,19,16,42,35],"tags":[],"services":[],"class_list":["post-16265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-international","category-lastnews","category-news","category-oil","category-politics","category-topnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16265"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=16265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}