# OFAC issues General License 41 allowing Chevron limited Venezuela production Date: 2022 ## The fact On 26 November 2022 the [US Treasury](/organizations/us-treasury) issued Venezuela General License 41, allowing Chevron to resume limited production and export from joint ventures with PDVSA. Output later rose from very low levels. He did not write the OFAC licence. Store complex. ## Context 2019 PDVSA designation sat as parent. Neighbouring Barbados 2023 later widened licences as a child. He did not sit as OFAC. OFAC January 2019 is the parent designation. Barbados October 2023 is a later licence-weather child. The President of Venezuela heads the national executive, commands FANB as commander-in-chief, appoints the cabinet, and can request enabling laws. He does not write an OFAC designation, an ICC Pre-Trial Chamber decision, or a Colombian migration statute. A CNE announcement is not an opposition acta and is not a Carter Center finding. Those three statuses stay on separate rows. An ICC investigation is not a conviction. An IMF figure is labelled as an estimate where BCV stopped publishing. Sanctions after 2017 and 2019 are an external causal factor; they do not erase the pre-2017 PDVSA-and-policy collapse. ## Evidence and sources U.S. Department of the Treasury carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is energy security and [sanctions pressure](/drivers/sanctions-pressure): a completed licence-and-barrel rebound that is US-authored on the licence side and PDVSA-hosted on the well side. ## What is established and what is not Established: 26 November 2022 GL 41, independently reported; later output rebound is the same path’s calendar. Not established: that he wrote the Treasury licence, or a unique later ENCOVI poverty coefficient from that Saturday. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Chevron operated. He owned PDVSA’s political weather. Pre-2017 decline remains a parent.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies OFAC issues General License 41 allowing Chevron limited Venezuela production, not a later speech about OFAC issues General License 41 allowing Chevron limited Venezuela production. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. OFAC issues General License 41 allowing Chevron limited Venezuela production on 2022-11-26 is not a licence to treat every later U.S. Department of the Treasury communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average OFAC issues General License 41 allowing Chevron limited Venezuela production into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Treasury licensed. Chevron operated. He owned PDVSA’s political weather. Pre-2017 decline remains a parent. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Nicolás Maduro: https://factrail.ai/people/nicolas-maduro ## Drivers - Energy Security: https://factrail.ai/drivers/energy-security - Sanctions Pressure: https://factrail.ai/drivers/sanctions-pressure ## Sources - https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-allows-chevron-resume-limited-venezuela-oil-output-2022-11-26/ - https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1127 ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ve-chevron-2022