美国能源部长称，美国将“无限期”控制委内瑞拉石油销售
【中美创新时报2026年1月7日编译讯】（记者温友平编译）美国能源部长克里斯·赖特周三表示，美国打算对委内瑞拉的石油工业保持重大控制，包括“无限期地”监督该国石油产量的销售。克里斯·赖特表示，特朗普政府正与委内瑞拉政府就该计划进行“积极对话”。《纽约时报》记者丽贝卡·F·艾略特对此作了下述报道。
美国能源部长克里斯·赖特周三表示，美国打算对委内瑞拉的石油工业保持重大控制，包括“无限期地”监督该国石油产量的销售。
“展望未来，我们将把委内瑞拉的石油产品投放市场，”赖特先生在迈阿密附近举行的高盛能源会议上表示。
赖特先生发表这番言论之前，特朗普总统周二晚些时候表示，委内瑞拉很快将向美国移交数千万桶石油。
特朗普在社交媒体上发帖称，委内瑞拉将向美国输送 3000 万至 5000 万桶石油，相当于两个月的日产量，他还补充说，他将控制这些销售的利润。
“我们需要掌握石油销售的影响力和控制权，才能推动委内瑞拉必须发生的变革，”曾任石油行业高管的赖特先生说道。他还补充说，这些资金“可以回流到委内瑞拉，造福委内瑞拉人民”。
如果特朗普政府的计划得以实施，这将标志着美国对委内瑞拉政策的重大转变。自2019年特朗普对委内瑞拉实施严厉制裁以来，该国的石油生产和出口一直受到严格限制，制裁对象包括委内瑞拉国有石油公司。
最近，美国实施了部分封锁，旨在阻止许多油轮从委内瑞拉运载石油离开。这切断了委内瑞拉政府的一项重要收入来源，迫使其将石油储存在近海的储油罐和船只中。
目前尚不清楚特朗普政府将依据何种法律授权来监管委内瑞拉的石油销售。截至周三上午，委内瑞拉首都加拉加斯的领导人尚未就美国政府的计划发表公开评论，白宫也未立即回应置评请求。
赖特先生表示，特朗普政府正与委内瑞拉领导层以及在该国开展业务的美国石油巨头进行“积极对话”。据知情人士透露，一些西方大型石油生产商的高管预计将于周五下午在白宫与特朗普先生会面。
赖特先生发表讲话后，周三上午油价下跌了约 1%。
能源部长呼应了外界的预测，认为委内瑞拉有可能在相对较短的时间内将石油日产量提高数十万桶。但即便国际石油公司准备在该国投入更多资金，要大幅提高目前约100万桶的日产量，也需要更长的时间。
赖特先生说：“要恢复到历史产量水平，需要数百亿美元和大量时间。但为什么不呢？”
Emma Bubola 、Kenneth P. Vogel和Ivan Penn对报道亦有贡献。
题图：委内瑞拉蓬托菲霍的一座炼油厂。图源-阿德里安娜·洛雷罗·费尔南德斯 (Adriana Loureiro Fernandez) 为《纽约时报》撰稿
附原英文报道：
U.S. to Control Venezuela Oil Sales ‘Indefinitely,’ Energy Secretary Says
Chris Wright said the Trump administration was in “active dialogue” with Venezuela’s government about the plan.
By Rebecca F. Elliott，Jan. 7, 2026
The energy secretary, Chris Wright, said on Wednesday that the United States intended to maintain significant control over Venezuela’s oil industry, including by overseeing the sale of the country’s production “indefinitely.”
“Going forward we will sell the production that comes out of Venezuela into the marketplace,” Mr. Wright said at a Goldman Sachs energy conference near Miami.
Mr. Wright’s remarks came after President Trump said late Tuesday that Venezuela would soon hand over tens of millions of barrels of oil to the United States.
Venezuela would send 30 million to 50 million barrels of oil, or up to two months’ worth of daily production, to the United States, Mr. Trump said in a social media post, adding that he would control the profits from those sales.
“We need to have that leverage and that control of those oil sales to drive the changes that simply must happen in Venezuela,” said Mr. Wright, a former oil industry executive. He added that the money “can flow back into Venezuela to benefit the Venezuelan people.”
If implemented, the Trump administration’s plans would amount to a sharp reversal in U.S. policy on Venezuela. The nation’s oil production and exports have been severely restricted since 2019, when Mr. Trump imposed tough sanctions on the country, including Venezuela’s state-owned oil company.
More recently, the United States has imposed a partial blockade designed to prevent many tankers from leaving Venezuela with oil. That has choked a vital source of revenue for the country’s government and forced it to keep oil in storage tanks and ships floating off the coast.
It was not clear what legal authority the Trump administration would operate under to oversee Venezuela’s sales of oil. As of Wednesday morning, leaders in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital, had not commented publicly on the U.S. government’s plans, and the White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Mr. Wright said the Trump administration was in “active dialogue” with Venezuela’s leadership, as well as U.S. oil giants that have operated in the country. Executives from some of the largest Western oil producers are expecting to meet Mr. Trump at the White House on Friday afternoon, according to people familiar with the plans.
Oil price were down around 1 percent on Wednesday morning after Mr. Wright’s remarks.
The energy secretary echoed outside estimates forecasting that Venezuela could potentially boost oil production by several hundred thousand barrels per day relatively quickly. But more substantial increases above current output levels of around one million barrels per day would take much longer, even if international oil companies were ready to invest more money in the country.
“To get back to the historical production numbers, that takes tens of billions of dollars and significant time,” Mr. Wright said. “But why not?”
Emma Bubola, Kenneth P. Vogel and Ivan Penn contributed reporting.
