Risks to oil prices are firmly skewed higher amid plunging global oil inventories in the worst supply disruption in history, according to Barclays. The investment bank on Friday kept its $100 per barrel Brent forecast for 2026, but warned that the risks are skewed to the upside as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has been draining U.S. and global inventories to multi-year lows.   “Inventory trends are signaling a 6-8 (million bpd) deficit with the U.S. inventories within reach of the lowest levels since 2020,” analysts at Barclays…

22-05-26.-.El Departamento de Seguridad Nacional de EE. UU. arrestó este jueves a Adys Lastres Morera, hermana de la jefa del conglomerado militar cubano Gaesa. Las autoridades federales informaron que este consorcio controla el 70% de la economía de la isla y gestiona activos valorados en 18.000 mi...

India’s power generation rose to a new all-time high amid hot weather that drove air-conditioning demand up, with thermal generation, most of its coming from coal power plants, covering 62% of demand. Power demand on Thursday hit 271 GW, on the “fourth consecutive day when the peak power demand (solar hours) reached a new all-time high,” India’s power ministry said, as quoted by AFP. After milder temperatures tempered demand growth in the fiscal year to March 2026 to the lowest level in six years, demand is now beating peak…

22-05-26.- La defensora del pueblo, Eglée González Lobato, realizó un recorrido por las instalaciones de la Entidad de Atención al Adolescente «Dr. José Gregorio Hernández», ubicada en la parroquia Antímano. En compañía de la magistrada Carmen Marisela Castro Gilly, presidenta de la Sala Penal de...

22-05-26.-El precio del dólar en el Banco Central de Venezuela (BCV) se cotizó este jueves 21 de mayo 2026 en Bs.526,86 por unidad según la última actualización en su página web oficial y redes sociales. El euro...

China y Rusia han condenado la decisión de Estados Unidos de acusar de asesinato al expresidente cubano Raúl Castro. 21 de mayo de 2026.-El Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores chino instó a Estados Unidos a cesar el uso de la "coerción" y las "amenazas" con...

con sobrevuelo y aterrizaje de dos aeronaves Caracas, 21 de mayo de 2026.- ...

El gigante petrolero estadounidense está negociando un acuerdo para bombear petróleo en Venezuela, poniendo fin a un enfrentamiento con sus gobernantes socialistas y marcando una victoria para el presidente Trump. 21 de mayo de 2026.-La mayor compañía...

Saudi crude exports have been falling since the US- Iran war began, but the latest slide is no longer just a story of disrupted trade routes. Cargoes scheduled to sail from Saudi Arabia in May are now assessed at roughly 3.9 million b/d (historic lows), while almost every major Saudi buyer – China, Japan, South Korea, India and Taiwan – is cutting nominations for the months ahead. China, still Saudi Aramco’s largest customer, is expected to take only about 600,000 b/d of Saudi crude in June, roughly half April’s volume.…

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has explicitly linked oil exploration and rare-earth mining to Brazil's national sovereignty, declaring that the country’s subsoil resources must be used to drive domestic industrialization rather than enrich foreign nations. Speaking at Petrobras’(NYSE:PBR) giant refinery, Refinaria de Paulínia (Replan), in São Paulo, Lula emphasized that Brazil must actively extract its natural resources in a bid to secure its geopolitical and economic future.  Defying foreign…

The oil market still looks surprisingly calm for a system that has spent nearly three months absorbing the largest supply disruption in modern history. That should probably make people nervous. Because underneath the headline inventory numbers, the market has gone from adding barrels to burning through them. And lately, it has been using emergency reserves to help keep the machinery running. The inventory picture still looks comfortable if you zoom out far enough. According to Oilprice.com's analysis of weekly API data, U.S. commercial crude inventories…

For years, green hydrogen has been touted as a kind of silver bullet for decarbonization. Hydrogen can be combusted at high temperatures, making it a potential solution for cleaning up some of the dirtiest industrial sectors on earth, with the ability to replace thermal coal in steelmaking and heavy fuel oil in industrial shipping. But instead of releasing greenhouse gases when burned, hydrogen leaves behind nothing but water vapor. Green hydrogen has therefore been a subject of major buzz in the public and private sectors alike for its ability…

21 de mayo de 2026.- El director de cine español, Pedro Almodóvar, ha instado a alzar la voz ante crisis global y atrincherarse frente a “monstruos” como Trump y Netanyahu. Durante una conferencia de prensa en el Festival de Cine de Cannes, el cinematógrafo pidió reaccionar a las crisis que se en...

Britain is tightening another screw on its oil and gas sector, this time by closing a tax structure that officials say allowed multinational energy firms to sharply reduce taxes on profits generated from UK operations. Finance Minister Rachel Reeves said Thursday the government will end a practice allowing losses from foreign branches to offset taxable UK profits, a move she said was being used by some oil and gas companies to pay "little or no corporation tax" on British energy trading income. "Today we're putting an end to that practice," Reeves…

U.S. shale oil producers are boosting output in response to the energy crunch caused by the war in the Middle East. Exports are running at all-time highs. The media are celebrating the country’s energy dominance. But there are limits to what the U.S. energy industry can do and how long it can keep doing it. Drillers across the shale patch have been adding rigs again in what is an obvious sign of changing sentiment in an industry that has focused on caution and capital discipline for years now. But with the U.S.-Iran war driving benchmarks…

Britain is tightening another screw on its oil and gas sector, this time by closing a tax structure that officials say allowed multinational energy firms to sharply reduce taxes on profits generated from UK operations. Finance Minister Rachel Reeves said Thursday the government will end a practice allowing losses from foreign branches to offset taxable UK profits, a move she said was being used by some oil and gas companies to pay "little or no corporation tax" on British energy trading income. "Today we're putting an end to that practice," Reeves…

Jueves, 21 de mayo de 2026.- Estados Unidos acaba de inventar una amenaza militar cubana que no existe, no hay absolutamente, ninguna prueba real. ¿La prueba fehaciente? Un informe "clasificado" filtrado a Axios que habla de 300 drones fantasma. ...

Jueves, 21 de mayo de 2026 Las nuevas tecnologías están revolucionando los límites de lo posible, reemplazando rápidamente los métodos tradicionales. Los cazas de combate avanzados, con su velocidad, precisión e imprevisibilidad, están transformando las estrategias bélicas y se están convirtiendo e...

21 de mayo de 2026.- Desde los espacios del Ateneo de Maracay, diputados de la Asamblea Nacional y autoridades de la Universidad Internacional de las Comunicaciones instalaron un conversatorio comunicacional estratégico en el estado Aragua, encuentro que reunió a comunicadores populares, voceros com...

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