The middle of May brought very little good news to the Asian refiners, but the extension of the US waiver on Russian crude and oil products on May 18 has certainly become one. The Trump administration first introduced the waiver on March 12 for Russian crude and products already loaded on ships before that date, as an emergency response to the blockage of the Strait of Hormuz and the resulting shortage of oil on the market. It was extended once in mid-April for another month, and for the second time on May 18, for another 30 days. For New Delhi,…

Un acuerdo entre un sindicato poderoso y un grupo industrial aumenta sustancialmente el salario anual de los trabajadores que enfrentan el alto costo de vida en la ciudad de Nueva York. 18 de mayo de 2026.-El salario promedio de las camareras d...

As U.S. drivers face the highest Memorial Day gasoline prices in four years, American consumers are paying billions of dollars more on gas and diesel than they did a year ago.   The global oil supply shock, created by the Iran war and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, is affecting Americans disproportionately. The lower-income households are being hit the most as their purchasing power is being eroded by $45 billion in extra costs on fuel compared to a year ago. At the other end of the spectrum, affluent Americans see their financial assets…

Lunes, 18 de mayo de 2026.- Rueda de prensa del PSUV, del lunes 18 de mayo de 2026. Rueda de prensa del PSUV (Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela) realizada por su secretario general, Diosdado Cabello. Comunas, Alex Saab y otros temas. Este canal de Youtube no es monetizado, por lo que neces...

18 de mayo de 2026.-El Ministerio de Salud del Líbano dice que el número de personas muertas en el país por ataques israelíes durante el conflicto entre Israel y Hezbollah, que se intensificó a principios de marzo, ha superado las 3.000, informó BBC.com. El lunes cifró el núme...

The world’s largest two economies, the United States and China, are both majorly cooling off on investments in clean energy manufacturing, but for very different reasons. In China, the decline in investing from peak levels in 2023 reflects a market correction after years of oversupply and a slowdown in economic growth. In the United States, the trend comes as a reflection of shifting policy priorities and the private sector’s reaction to political uncertainty in the Trump era. The result is a slowdown in clean energy manufacturing investing…

Lunes, 18 de mayo de 2026.- Existen muchas lecturas relacionadas con las conversaciones de paz llevadas a cabo entre Estados Unidos e Irán bajoa la mediación de Paquistán. Adelantos y atrasos, suspenciones y reinicios, ofertas y contraofertas han caracterizado estas muy partic...

For years, carbon capture and storage (CCS) has existed in a strange political limbo. Governments praise it in climate strategies. Heavy industry quietly depends on it in their net-zero roadmaps. Environmental groups alternately dismiss it as a fossil fuel lifeline or reluctantly admit it may be necessary after all. Yet despite the endless conferences, white papers, and billion-euro announcements, very few projects ever make it past the PowerPoint stage. That is why Denmark’s latest CCS tender matters far beyond Scandinavia. Aalborg Portland…

En el marco de deportación del empresario Alex Saab a EE.UU. por parte del Gobierno venezolano por cargos de corrupción, un analista aborda polémicas de este tema.

El bloqueo de rutas dentro de la huelga indefinida convocada por sindicatos y organizaciones sociales contra el presidente de Bolivia, Rodrigo Paz, cumplió este domingo 14 días sin que por el momento haya señales de solución al conflicto. Los grupos seguidores del expreside...

Data centers, electric vehicles (EVs), and green industrial clusters are expected to lead to about 100 terawatt-hours (TWh) of incremental power demand in Southeast Asia by 2030, but slower grid infrastructure development could slow the rollout, a report by Bain & Company and Standard Chartered showed on Monday. The incremental demand from data centers/AI, green industrial parks and EV infrastructure is enormous, with the expected growth tripled compared to about 30 TWh in additional demand in the five years to 2025. But Southeast Asia will…

Data centers, electric vehicles (EVs), and green industrial clusters are expected to lead to about 100 terawatt-hours (TWh) of incremental power demand in Southeast Asia by 2030, but slower grid infrastructure development could slow the rollout, a report by Bain & Company and Standard Chartered showed on Monday. The incremental demand from data centers/AI, green industrial parks and EV infrastructure is enormous, with the expected growth tripled compared to about 30 TWh in additional demand in the five years to 2025. But Southeast Asia will…

El presidente estadounidense, Donald Trump, criticó este lunes duramente a la prensa de su país y al Partido Demócrata asegurando que en una "hipotética rendición total de Irán" lo titularán como "una victoria magistral y brillante" de Teherán sobre Washington. E...

Please excuse the infelicitous wording, but that is what this is all about. Not missteps or misjudgments but genuine, massive screw-ups. Policy makers in the United States worked out that problem over time, dealing with nuclear cost overruns and aborted projects. Three utilities went bankrupt (only one being investor-owned) when the financial burdens of nuclear projects far exceeded the resources of the utility. In most cases, regulatory agencies forced utility shareholders to bear some of the losses or imprudently incurred costs, customers paid…

The loss of fertilizer shipments coming from the Persian Gulf as a result of the Iran war got me thinking about the chemist Justus von Liebig, a prominent 19th-century proponent of the mineral theory of plant nutrition. Liebig is the popularizer of what is now known as Liebig's Law of the Minimum. The law states that the least available essential nutrient limits the growth of plants. This means once a grower runs out of one essential nutrient, adding extra of others will not make up for the lack of the one that is limited. Liebig's eponymous law…

18 de mayo de 2026.- La tensión prevalece en el departamento boliviano de La Paz, con sectores movilizados que mantienen puntos de bloqueo en la ciudad de El Alto, en particular en la carretera estratégica hacia Viacha. Desde las primeras horas de este lunes, los manifestantes cerraron el paso en...

Leading clean energy utility, NextEra Energy (NYSE:NEE), has agreed to buy Dominion Energy (NYSE:D) in an all-stock transaction valued at $66.8 billion, marking the largest power utility acquisition on record. The merger unites Florida-based NextEra Energy and Virginia-based Dominion Energy to create the world’s largest regulated electric utility, a power sector titan with an enterprise value exceeding $400 billion including debt. The historic consolidation is directly driven by the artificial intelligence infrastructure boom, with high-performance…

Leading clean energy utility, NextEra Energy (NYSE:NEE), has agreed to buy Dominion Energy (NYSE:D) in an all-stock transaction valued at $66.8 billion, marking the largest power utility acquisition on record. The merger unites Florida-based NextEra Energy and Virginia-based Dominion Energy to create the world’s largest regulated electric utility, a power sector titan with an enterprise value exceeding $400 billion including debt. The historic consolidation is directly driven by the artificial intelligence infrastructure boom, with high-performance…

Leading clean energy utility, NextEra Energy (NYSE:NEE), has agreed to buy Dominion Energy (NYSE:D) in an all-stock transaction valued at $66.8 billion, marking the largest power utility acquisition on record. The merger unites Florida-based NextEra Energy and Virginia-based Dominion Energy to create the world’s largest regulated electric utility, a power sector titan with an enterprise value exceeding $400 billion including debt. The historic consolidation is directly driven by the artificial intelligence infrastructure boom, with high-performance…

18 de mayo de 2026.- El Gobierno de Venezuela exigió públicamente responsabilidad e indemnización al Gobierno de Trinidad y Tobago por el derrame de hidrocarburos que ha afectado las costas venezolanas desde finales del mes de abril. “Hoy exigimos responsabilidad al Gobierno de Trinidad y Tobago ...