{"id":23530,"date":"2026-08-31T16:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T11:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23530"},"modified":"2026-08-31T16:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T11:26:11","slug":"trump-announces-plan-to-refill-us-strategic-oil-reserves-with-venezuelan-crude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23530","title":{"rendered":"Trump announces plan to refill US strategic oil reserves with Venezuelan crude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington: US President Donald Trump has announced plans to use Venezuelan oil to replenish America&#8217;s Strategic Petroleum Reserve following a decline in the country&#8217;s emergency oil stockpiles.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a statement posted on social media, Trump said Venezuelan oil would be used to make up for the reduction in US petroleum reserves.<\/p>\n<p>According to the US president, the process of refilling the country&#8217;s Strategic Petroleum Reserve with Venezuelan crude will begin very soon.<\/p>\n<p>Trump claimed that US oil reserves were depleted during former President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration and said his government would now move to rebuild them.<\/p>\n<p>According to a foreign news agency, global oil supplies have been severely disrupted since the US-Iran war, putting additional pressure on international energy markets.<\/p>\n<p>The US Department of Energy says the country&#8217;s petroleum reserves have fallen to their lowest level in 44 years.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes days after Trump claimed that the United States had reached what he described as the largest oil deal in history with Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>According to Trump, the agreement gives the United States majority control over more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuela&#8217;s proven oil reserves.<\/p>\n<p>He said the agreement would more than double US oil reserves, significantly increase oil supplies and eventually help lower petrol prices for American consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: US President Donald Trump has announced plans to use Venezuelan oil to replenish America&#8217;s Strategic Petroleum Reserve following a decline in the country&#8217;s emergency oil stockpiles. In a statement posted on social media, Trump said Venezuelan oil would be used to make up for the reduction in US petroleum reserves. According to the US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,37],"tags":[2116,9632,7779,3858,13170,2493,13518,13363,8768,13517],"class_list":["post-23530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-world","tag-donald-trump","tag-global-oil-supply","tag-oil-reserves","tag-petrol-prices","tag-strategic-petroleum-reserve","tag-united-states","tag-us-department-of-energy","tag-us-iran-war","tag-venezuela","tag-venezuelan-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23532,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23530\/revisions\/23532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}