31 de marzo de 2026.-El presidente Donald Trump y su administración están cada vez más convencidos de que no pueden prometer la reapertura del estrecho de Ormuz como condición para declarar la "misión cumplida" en la guerra contra Irán, según fuentes cercanas a las conversaciones consultadas p...

REalloys (NASDAQ: ALOY) has appointed former U.S. Secretary of Defense’s Chief of Staff Joe Kasper as chair of its advisory board, placing a senior defense supply chain official at the center of its push to build a U.S.-aligned rare earth metals platform as the country faces limited domestic supply and a hard 2027 deadline requiring U.S. defense systems to eliminate Chinese-sourced inputs. Kasper has been working inside the Pentagon on the exact supply chain breakdown REalloys is now trying to fix: the absence of U.S. capacity to produce…

31 de marzo de 2026.-Con el propósito de garantizar la movilidad segura, el titular del Instituto Nacional de Transporte Terrestre (INTT), Dr. Luis Granco, realizó un despliegue de inspección directa por los principales...

Last December, Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. (NYSE:DJT) entered the nuclear fusion race after it agreed to buy California-based fusion startup TAE Technologies in a $6-billion merger, creating one of the world's first publicly traded nuclear fusion companies. The merger is structured as an all-stock transaction whereby shareholders of both companies will each own roughly 50% of the new entity with the deal expected to close in mid-2026. TMTG agreed to provide TAE Technologies with up to $200 million in cash upon signing and an additional…

After years of upstream underinvestment and a short-lived foray into clean energy, the world’s biggest oil and gas firms are accelerating exploration efforts as they look to replenish their upstream portfolios. Executives at Big Oil have been signaling for nearly a year that they seek to boost upstream portfolios in a world where oil and gas demand is growing and will continue to grow for years to come. During the 2025 earnings calls and at last week’s CERAWeek event in Houston, the top brass of the largest oil and gas majors reiterated…

As Saudi Arabia redirects more and more crude from the east to the west, where it can export it safely, oil seems to be all that everyone is watching. But not Saudi Arabia itself. In fact, the world’s second-largest oil producer and top exporter has big plans in another area: battery storage. Battery storage has been dubbed the Holy Grail of the energy transition because it helps make wind and solar installations less dependent on the weather. However, while costs have fallen significantly, battery storage remains a financial drag. An even…

The infamous Texas Arctic freeze of five years ago exposed a key vulnerability of electric vehicles: Many drivers were forced to abandon their vehicles after being left stranded with dead batteries and no charging station in sight. While cold weather can lower driving range by ~10%, unusually low temperatures can cut it by up to 40% while increasing charging time by 300%. Thankfully, this could soon become a thing of the past: Chinese researchers have developed an all-weather battery electrolyte that is not only capable of maintaining high energy…

The American Petroleum Institute (API) estimated that crude oil inventories in the United States rose by a staggering 10.263 million barrels in the week ending March 27. In the week prior, US crude oil inventories rose by 2.3 million barrels. Analysts had expected a draw of 1.3 million barrels in the current reporting period. Inventories in the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) drew down for the first week in many, sinking by 300,000 barrels to 415.1 million barrels as of the week ending March 27. This is 310.4 million barrels shy of maximum…

The American Petroleum Institute (API) estimated that crude oil inventories in the United States rose by a staggering 10.263 million barrels in the week ending March 27. In the week prior, US crude oil inventories rose by 2.3 million barrels. Analysts had expected a draw of 1.3 million barrels in the current reporting period. Inventories in the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) drew down for the first week in many, sinking by 300,000 barrels to 415.1 million barrels as of the week ending March 27. This is 310.4 million barrels shy of maximum…

Tech giants Microsoft and NVIDIA are collaborating on an artificial intelligence project designed to accelerate the development of nuclear energy – in order to feed the growing energy needs of AI. The project aims to develop an “ecosystem of AI-powered digital engineering tools” that will be used to shorten the considerable timelines of nuclear power plants and bring them online a lot more quickly as the rate of energy demand growth continues to skyrocket around the world. The nuclear power sector in the United States is beset…

31 de marzo de 2026.- La presidenta encargada de Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, removió a Giuson Fernando Flores, de su cargo como director general del Servicio Administrativo de Identificación, Migración y Extranjería (Saime). La medida fue oficializada a través de la Gaceta Oficial N° 7.016, con f...

Guyana, once among South America's most impoverished nations, is experiencing an epic oil boom. In a mere four years, the country of less than one million went from first discovery to first oil and is now lifting over 900,000 barrels per day. There are signs of significant production growth ahead. This is occurring at a crucial time for a world experiencing an energy crisis after oil spiked to well-over $110 per barrel after Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for U.S. and Israeli airstrikes. Guyana's oil boom is significantly reducing…

31 de marzo de 2026.- El ministro de Exteriores iraní, Abbas Araghchi, afirmó que su país aún no ha respondido a las 15 propuestas de EE.UU. ni ha presentado sus condiciones para poner fin al conflicto iniciado por Washington e Israel. "Lo que está ocurriendo no son negociaciones, sino un interca...

China’s leading international broadcaster, CGTN, aired an interview March 24 with Turkmenistan’s paramount leader, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, touting how “mutual trust and centuries-old exchanges” shape present-day bilateral relations. But such messaging struck a discordant note during the actual interview, when Berdymukhamedov’s figures for his country’s natural gas exports to China proved significantly different than those subsequently proffered by Chinese officials. During the interview, taped while the Turkmen…

Iran has assured Malaysia that Malaysian tankers can safely transit the Strait of Hormuz without paying a toll that the Islamic Republic wants to exact from shippers, Malaysian Transport Minister Anthony Loke said on Tuesday. “The Iranian ambassador has mentioned that no toll is being imposed on Malaysian vessels,” Loke said today, as quoted by Bloomberg. “We are a friendly party, we have good diplomatic relationship with the Iranian government,” the Malaysian minister added. Iran has selectively allowed a small number of…

Iran has assured Malaysia that Malaysian tankers can safely transit the Strait of Hormuz without paying a toll that the Islamic Republic wants to exact from shippers, Malaysian Transport Minister Anthony Loke said on Tuesday. “The Iranian ambassador has mentioned that no toll is being imposed on Malaysian vessels,” Loke said today, as quoted by Bloomberg. “We are a friendly party, we have good diplomatic relationship with the Iranian government,” the Malaysian minister added. Iran has selectively allowed a small number of…

31 de marzo de 2026.- El presidente de Colombia, Gustavo Petro, firmó la ley estatutaria de la jurisdicción agraria, un paso esencial para garantizar el acceso a la justicia de campesinos y poblaciones étnicas en conflictos por la Tierra de poblaciones campesinas y étnicas, avanzando en la reforma r...

The world economy is heading for a “rare” recession in the middle of this year as a prolonged war seems likely amid the prospect of US troops heading to the Middle East.  Economists have warned that activity will fall in the middle of the year if oil prices surge to $150 per barrel and remain there for a period of four months.  Oil prices continued to climb higher on Monday as the Brent Crude benchmark raced past the $116 per barrel mark amid mixed messages between the US, Israel and Iran on the state of the war.  It…

Tightening Asian fuel markets and Indian refiners’ thirst for Russian crude have resulted in the highest Indian diesel exports to Southeast Asia in seven and a half years in March, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing trade sources and data from analytics firm Kpler. As the Middle East war roils Asian fuel markets and prompted many countries in Asia, including China, to impose fuel export bans, Indian refiners are taking advantage of the higher premiums they get to send their fuel to Southeast Asia, which began struggling with fuel shortages.…

Tightening Asian fuel markets and Indian refiners’ thirst for Russian crude have resulted in the highest Indian diesel exports to Southeast Asia in seven and a half years in March, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing trade sources and data from analytics firm Kpler. As the Middle East war roils Asian fuel markets and prompted many countries in Asia, including China, to impose fuel export bans, Indian refiners are taking advantage of the higher premiums they get to send their fuel to Southeast Asia, which began struggling with fuel shortages.…