Giant oil and commodity traders, including Vitol and Trafigura, alongside French Oil & Gas multinational TotalEnergies (NYSE:TTE), have won tenders to supply Libya with diesel and gasoline in a clear effort to cut imports of Russian fuel, Reuters reported on Wednesday.  Libya is moving to reboot its oil sector, 15 years after the 2011 uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafi fractured the country’s energy infrastructure and investment climate. Authorities are targeting an increase in crude production from around 1.4 million barrels…

Giant oil and commodity traders, including Vitol and Trafigura, alongside French Oil & Gas multinational TotalEnergies (NYSE:TTE), have won tenders to supply Libya with diesel and gasoline in a clear effort to cut imports of Russian fuel, Reuters reported on Wednesday.  Libya is moving to reboot its oil sector, 15 years after the 2011 uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafi fractured the country’s energy infrastructure and investment climate. Authorities are targeting an increase in crude production from around 1.4 million barrels…

Global investment in the energy transition hit a record $2.3 trillion in 2025, good for a 8% increase from 2024, driven by massive spending on electric transport, renewable energy, and grid infrastructure, BloombergNEF has reported. Clean energy spending exceeded total fossil fuel supply investment for the second consecutive year, highlighting accelerated efforts to decarbonize, despite slowing growth rates in some sectors like solar. Electrified Transport was the largest investment category after attracting $893 billion, up 21% from 2024, driven…

Canada-based energy firm, Ovintiv Inc. (NYSE: OVV), has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Oil & Gas assets in the Anadarko Basin in Oklahoma to an undisclosed buyer for $3 billion in cash. The assets include ~360,000 net acres, representing nearly all of the company's holdings in the Anadarko region.  Ovintiv currently produces roughly 90,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd) from these assets, consisting of 27,000 bbl/d of oil and condensate, 240 MMcf/d of natural gas and 23,000 bbl/d of natural gas liquids. The…

Miércoles, 18 de febrero de 2026.- No son nuestros amigos. Nunca lo han sido. Y bajo la conducción del más sinvergüenza y abusivo de sus presidentes, jamás tendrán el aprecio y el reconocimiento de los mexicanos patriotas y bien nacidos, ni de este ni del otro lado de la frontera. [yt=...

A European Commission spokeswoman on February 17 confirmed that Brussels was in touch with Ukraine regarding the Druzhba pipeline that has been damaged since late January, preventing Russian oil from flowing to Hungary and Slovakia. "We are in contact with Ukraine on the timeline for reparation of the Druzhba oil pipeline and how quickly this might be up and running," Anna-Kaisa Itkonen told journalists in Brussels, adding the EU executive was ready to call an emergency coordination group with relevant parties to discuss alternative routes to fuel…

La aprobación de una ley por el Gobierno de Israel que permite reabrir el proceso de registro de tierras en la Cisjordania ocupada bajo su titularidad ha generado la condena de la ONU y numerosos países, por considerarla otro paso anexionista. Stéphane Dujarric, portavoz del secreta...

Miércoles, 18 de febrero de 2026.- Richard Wolff: Venezuela da un giro económico que desconcierta a Washington. Análisis detallado del caso venezolano, la califica de la economía zombi. El contenido presentado en Richard noticias tiene fines informativos y educativos. Los análisis, opiniones e...

The United States military has attacked three alleged drug boats in the Eastern Pacific and the Caribbean as the U.S. continues its crackdown on narcotics trade and enforces a blockade on illicit oil shipments from Venezuela.   Earlier this week, the Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted three lethal kinetic strikes on three vessels operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations, the U.S. Southern Command said late on Tuesday.  “Intelligence confirmed the vessels were transiting along known narco-trafficking routes and…

The United States military has attacked three alleged drug boats in the Eastern Pacific and the Caribbean as the U.S. continues its crackdown on narcotics trade and enforces a blockade on illicit oil shipments from Venezuela.   Earlier this week, the Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted three lethal kinetic strikes on three vessels operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations, the U.S. Southern Command said late on Tuesday.  “Intelligence confirmed the vessels were transiting along known narco-trafficking routes and…

The United States military has attacked three alleged drug boats in the Eastern Pacific and the Caribbean as the U.S. continues its crackdown on narcotics trade and enforces a blockade on illicit oil shipments from Venezuela.   Earlier this week, the Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted three lethal kinetic strikes on three vessels operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations, the U.S. Southern Command said late on Tuesday.  “Intelligence confirmed the vessels were transiting along known narco-trafficking routes and…

El Ministerio Público de Venezuela confirmó la liberación del asesor Evanan Romero, ex director de la estatal PDVSA , venezolano con nacionalidad estadounidense, quien, según la entidad, quedó bajo "régimen de presentación", y aclaró que su detención, el viernes último, "no guar...

DP World, una empresa de logística global propiedad de Emiratos Árabes Unidos (EAU), anunció el viernes que ha sustituido a Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem como su presidente y director ejecutivo tras un intenso escrutinio por su amistad con el depredador sexual Jeffrey Epstein, reporta Middle East E...

Tras habérsele comprobado por el Cuerpo de Investigaciones Científicas, Penales y Criminalísticas, su responsabilidad en el homicidio de la periodista Kalinina Ortega en el año 2016, el titular del Ministerio Público, Tarek William Saab, anunció que Armando Ricci Degiosti, fue imputado y priva...

El canciller de Rusia, Serguéi Lavrov, instó este miércoles a la Administración Trump a que demuestre sentido común y un enfoque responsable, y se abstenga de sus planes de imponer un bloqueo militar naval a Cuba, expresó durante un encuentro en Moscú con su homólogo cubano, Bruno Rodríguez Pa...

Venezuela y Egipto coinciden en fortalecer su amplia agenda de cooperación, informó el ministro del Poder Popular para Relaciones Exteriores, Yván Gil, tras conversar con su homólogo Badr Abdelatty este martes. "Coincidimos en la importancia de seguir fortaleciendo una amplia a...

Las autoridades estadounidenses capturaron el petrolero Verónica III en esas aguas, señaló el Departamento de Guerra de EEUU en su cuenta de X. De acuerdo con la dependencia, "con la esperanza de escapar, el buque intentó desafiar la cuarentena [aprobada] por el presidente Trum...

La presidenta encargada de la República, Delcy Rodríguez, celebró, este martes, el 60° aniversario de la firma del Acuerdo de Ginebra de 1966, único instrumento jurídico válido para alcanzar una solución mutuamente aceptable de la controversia territorial sobre la Guayana Esequiba.

El lunes, el presidente Trump se refirió a Cuba como una "nación fallida" y se negó a descartar una acción militar destinada a derrocar a su Gobierno. Trump habló con la prensa a bordo del avión presidencial Air Force One. Presidente Donald Trump: "Definitivamente deb...

Oil prices surged nearly 3% on Wednesday after peace talks between Ukraine and Russia in Geneva ended abruptly after only two hours. The failure to reach a breakthrough heightened market fears that sanctions and supply restrictions on Russian oil will persist longer than previously anticipated. Brent crude for April delivery was up 2.74% to trade at $69.15 per barrel at 8.20 am ET in Wednesday’s morning session while WTI crude for March delivery gained 2.79% to change hands at $64.05 per barrel. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called…