When U.S. and Israeli forces launched coordinated airstrikes on Iran at the end of February, the energy market’s first question was how long the Strait of Hormuz would stay closed. Ten weeks later, that question is still open.  Brent is hovering near $107, Trump called Iran’s latest counterproposal “totally unacceptable” on Monday, and Saudi Aramco CEO Amin Nasser has been warning the market that it is hemorrhaging roughly 100 million barrels of supply every week the blockade holds.  For oilfield services, the…

La ministra Mónica García asegura que se está manteniendo una "monitorización estrecha" de todos los pasajeros del buque La cuarentena de los españoles se contará a partir del día 6 de mayo y se podrá extender hasta 42 días, el periodo máximo de incubación, según la OMS

The American Petroleum Institute (API) estimated that crude oil inventories in the United States fell by 2.188 million barrels in the week ending May 8. In the week prior, US crude oil inventories fell by 8.1 million barrels. Analysts had expected a 1.65 million-barrel draw for the current reporting period. US crude inventories are up 35 million barrels so far this year, according to API data. Inventories in the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) continue to draw down in an attempt to alleviate the pressure on prices. For week ending May 8, 8.6…

The American Petroleum Institute (API) estimated that crude oil inventories in the United States fell by 2.188 million barrels in the week ending May 8. In the week prior, US crude oil inventories fell by 8.1 million barrels. Analysts had expected a 1.65 million-barrel draw for the current reporting period. US crude inventories are up 35 million barrels so far this year, according to API data. Inventories in the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) continue to draw down in an attempt to alleviate the pressure on prices. For week ending May 8, 8.6…

Las Naciones Unidas proclamaron el 12 de mayo como el Día Internacional de la Sanidad Vegetal con el objetivo de concienciar a nivel mundial sobre cómo la protección de la salud de las plantas puede ayudar a poner fin al hambre, reducir la pobreza, proteger la biodiversidad y el medio ambiente...

After more than five months of political cajolery, threats, and infighting since Iraq’s 11 November parliamentary elections – the seventh since Saddam Hussein’s fall in 2003 – an erstwhile obscure businessman, Ali al-Zaidi, has been selected as the Prime Minister-designate of the governing Iran-aligned Shia Coordination Framework bloc. Regarded as a compromise candidate between more pro-West sitting Prime Minister, Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani, and one of his predecessors, the pro-Iran Nouri al-Maliki, al-Zaidi now has…

12 de mayo de 2026.- El barril de petróleo Brent para entrega en julio cotiza por encima de los 107 dólares este martes, con una subida de casi el 3%, impulsado por la tensión creciente entre Estados Unidos e Irán y el bloqueo persistente del estrecho de Ormuz. Hacia las 10.1...

The Trump administration is considering a temporary removal of the federal gas tax in response to soaring retail fuel prices that have dampened consumer sentiment, sending it to its lowest since the early 1950s. “I think it's a great idea,” the President told CBS News in an interview Monday. “Yup, we're going to take off the gas tax for a period of time, and when gas goes down, we'll let it phase back in.” The remarks of the President echo a suggestion by Energy Secretary Chris Wright made on Sunday, about the administration…

12 de mayo de 2026.- El activista brasileño Thiago Ávila regresó a su país tras ser deportado por Israel, cuyo régimen lo mantuvo detenido durante once días por su participación en una Flotilla Global Sumud con destino a Gaza, en un contexto de creciente tensión diplomática y denuncias por violacion...

Mediante un incremento del 36 % en la producción de huevos, así como un 15,8 % en la producción de pollo, la Federación Nacional de Avicultura de Venezuela (Fenavi) impulsa el nuevo Consejo Nacional de Exportaciones Avícolas. “Este crecimiento sostenido permite que nuestras gr...

Las Fuerzas Armadas estadounidenses realizaron al menos 25 vuelos militares cerca de

Iraq may soon have a new prime minister as the Coordination Framework, Iraq’s largest parliamentary bloc and a coalition of Shia Arab political forces,  nominated businessman Ali al-Zaidi for the post, hoping to break a deadlock between caretaker prime minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani and former prime minister Nouri Al-Maliki, who was previously nominated for the post. U.S. president Donald Trump spoke to Zaidi and pronounced himself satisfied: “With our help, he won, and we want him to do very well.” Trump may have felt…

En los estados Táchira, Carabobo y Lara, la duración de los cortes del servicio eléctrico han aumentado tras el anuncio de la administración de carga. En el estado Táchira, se reportan cortes de hasta cuatro horas durante el día y cuatro más durante la noche. Además, en ocasiones la...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Tuesday as Kyiv pushes deeper into artificial intelligence to fight Russia, building on a months-old partnership that is already reshaping how Ukraine targets incoming drones and plans strikes inside Russian territory. The meeting came as Ukraine's Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, who took the role in January, said more than 100 companies are now training over 80 AI models to detect and intercept aerial targets through the Brave1 Dataroom, a secure platform Kyiv launched…

Millones de venezolanos dependen mensualmente de los subsidios económicos y asignaciones especiales distribuidas a través de la plataforma del Sistema Patria. Sin embargo, una de las quejas más recurrentes de los usuarios es la interrupción repentina de estos pagos. En tal sentido, ...

The U.S. Energy Information Administration is about to hand oil traders another thing to obsessively refresh between API inventory data drops and Strait of Hormuz headlines. Starting Wednesday, the EIA will publish a new quarterly report that tracks global strategic petroleum reserves and energy flows through major shipping choke points, including through the world’s most nerve-wracking stretch of water right now: the Strait of Hormuz. The additional data will add to the hyperfixation that currently exists in the oil market on the fallout…

The U.S. Energy Information Administration is about to hand oil traders another thing to obsessively refresh between API inventory data drops and Strait of Hormuz headlines. Starting Wednesday, the EIA will publish a new quarterly report that tracks global strategic petroleum reserves and energy flows through major shipping choke points, including through the world’s most nerve-wracking stretch of water right now: the Strait of Hormuz. The additional data will add to the hyperfixation that currently exists in the oil market on the fallout…

The U.S. Energy Information Administration is about to hand oil traders another thing to obsessively refresh between API inventory data drops and Strait of Hormuz headlines. Starting Wednesday, the EIA will publish a new quarterly report that tracks global strategic petroleum reserves and energy flows through major shipping choke points, including through the world’s most nerve-wracking stretch of water right now: the Strait of Hormuz. The additional data will add to the hyperfixation that currently exists in the oil market on the fallout…

The U.S. Energy Information Administration is about to hand oil traders another thing to obsessively refresh between API inventory data drops and Strait of Hormuz headlines. Starting Wednesday, the EIA will publish a new quarterly report that tracks global strategic petroleum reserves and energy flows through major shipping choke points, including through the world’s most nerve-wracking stretch of water right now: the Strait of Hormuz. The additional data will add to the hyperfixation that currently exists in the oil market on the fallout…

La presidenta encargada de Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, desestimó la posibilidad de que su país se convierta en el estado 51 de Estados Unidos. Agregó que el presidente estadounidense, Donald Trump, sabe que "hemos estado trabajando en una agenda diplomática de cooperación y ese es el cami...