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Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan

Extended Interview: Mike Wirth

Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan

CBS News

News, Politics

3.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Margaret Brennan interviews Chevron CEO Mike Wirth about the Iran war's impact on the global energy supply. 

Transcript

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0:00.0

And we're joined now by Chevron Chairman and CEO Mike Worth.

0:03.6

Welcome to Face the Nation.

0:04.9

Thank you, Margaret.

0:05.7

It's good to have you here, particularly in this moment in time,

0:08.6

because it feels like we're in this global energy shock.

0:12.4

What we heard from the head of the International Energy Agency,

0:15.1

he said, if you combine the 1973 Arab oil embargo,

0:19.2

the 1979 Iranian oil crisis, and what happened around

0:23.2

2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine, if you combine all those things that still isn't the scope of

0:30.1

what we are experiencing. Is that how you put it? Well, the way I would frame it is the energy system has lost an incredible amount of flexibility.

0:42.8

The global economy consumes about 100 million barrels of oil every day.

0:47.6

A barrel is 42 gallons.

0:49.8

About 20% of that moves through the Strait of Hormuz.

0:52.5

That's been significantly disrupted.

0:55.2

Normally, the energy system has shock absorbers in it.

0:58.7

So we have inventory in tanks at facilities.

1:03.2

We've got inventory on the water in ships.

1:06.0

We've got inventory in strategic reserves.

1:08.7

All of those have been pulled down over the last couple of months

1:12.2

as these events have unfolded.

1:14.1

And what has done is it's taken those shock absorbers and made them much less effective in the

1:18.4

system.

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