US receives over 500,000 barrels per day of Venezuelan oil, about half of Venezuela's total production.

Venezuela's total oil production is around 1.25 million barrels per day.

Statement made by Kyle Haustveit, US Deputy Secretary of Energy, at an event in Houston.

The trade is seen as reflecting a political and economic recomposition between the US and Venezuela.

The claims, made testable

• asserted — check unavailable US receives over 500,000 barrels per day of Venezuelan oil, about half of Venezuela's total production. (evidence: not measured)
• asserted — check unavailable Venezuela's total oil production is around 1.25 million barrels per day. (evidence: not measured)
• asserted — check unavailable Statement made by Kyle Haustveit, US Deputy Secretary of Energy, at an event in Houston. (evidence: not measured)

Pattern: 3472 related Venezuela signals in the last 30 days on barril, producción, unidos, venezuela, subsecretario, energía.

What would change the assessment

• US imports of Venezuelan oil fall below 400,000 barrels per day for a sustained month (within 90 days — EIA (US Energy Information Administration) petroleum import data)
• Venezuelan oil production drops below 1 million barrels per day (within 90 days — OPEC monthly oil market report)

Grounded analysis — deterministic intelligence + AI synthesis anchored to real signals (deterministic + anchored gemma4:e2b). No fact is asserted that the sources do not support.

What the sources establish

The source makes the assertions summarized above; VeraVadis has not yet found independent corroboration in its corpus.

Actors named in sources

Energía de Estados Unidos · Kyle Haustveit · 50% · Houston

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What's still unverified

• Everything above is one outlet's account; none of it has been independently corroborated yet.