Valero Energy Corporation: 10-K Risk Factor Changes

2026 vs 2025  ·  SEC EDGAR  ·  2026-10-16
⚠ AI Risk Brief Interpretation layer — deterministic data below

Valero added insurance gap disclosure and expanded climate, supply chain, and strategic project risk disclosures.

Direction ↑ More concerning
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Classification is based on semantic text similarity scoring and may include approximations. “No match” means no high-confidence textual match was found — not necessarily that a section was removed.

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🟡 Modified Disclosure change8/10

Our pursuit of capital and other strategic projects and actions exposes us to various risks.

low match confidence

Sentence-level differences:

  • Reworded sentence: "We engage in capital and other strategic projects based on many factors, including the forecasted project economics; legal, regulatory, and political environments; the expected return on the capital to be deployed; and the anticipated impact to our future cash flows."
  • Reworded sentence: "In addition, challenges to or opposition of certain fossil fuel and infrastructure projects (including pipelines), as well as certain low-carbon projects (such as carbon sequestration and carbon capture and storage), continue to make the approval and completion of such projects more difficult and costly."

Current (2026):

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We engage in capital and other strategic projects based on many factors, including the forecasted project economics, legal, regulatory, and political environments, and the expected return on the capital to be deployed. Such projects can take many years to complete, during which time such environments or other market conditions may change from our forecast, particularly with respect to low-carbon projects such as those related to SAF and carbon capture and sequestration. Supply chain disruptions may also delay projects or increase the costs associated therewith. As a result, such projects may not be completed on schedule or budget, or at all, and may not achieve their expected returns, which could negatively impact our business, financial condition, results of operations, and liquidity.

In addition, challenges to or opposition of fossil fuel infrastructure projects continue to make the approval and completion of such projects more difficult and costly. Despite various government and third-party support for and acknowledgement of the importance of certain low-carbon fuels and technologies, such as carbon capture and sequestration, there has also been growing regional political, environmental, and other opposition to many such projects. Such opposition may affect grants of the relevant permits or authorizations by government or judicial officials, or grants of easements or rights-of-way by land owners, and has previously resulted in, and could again result in, permits and other authorizations being challenged, delayed, denied, revoked, appealed, or granted subject to onerous conditions. In certain instances, this has resulted in, and could again result in, the cancellation or restructuring of projects and costs and charges related thereto.

🟢 New in Current Filing We do not maintain insurance coverage that fully protects against all potential losses and liabilities. 🔒
🟡 Modified We are subject to risks arising from litigation, government action, and mandatory disclosure rules related to climate- and other sustainability-related matters, or aimed at the fossil fuel industry. 🔒
🟡 Modified The availability and prices of our feedstocks and other critical supplies expose us to risks. 🔒

And 12 more changes in the full comparison.

15 more changes in this filing

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