After the discovery of oil in Suriname’s territorial waters in January 2020, the government in the capital Paramaribo pitched its hopes on an oil boom matching that of neighboring Guyana. You see, decades of economic mismanagement, excessive spending, and corruption wreaked havoc on the former Dutch colony’s economy. Over the last decade, gross domestic product (GDP) collapsed, plunging by over 10%, hitting Suriname’s population of over 600,000 particularly hard. This exploded in violence during February 2023, with protestors…

China’s independent refiners—the country’s infamous “teapots”— just got their first sip of 2026 crude import quotas. And the timing couldn’t be better for a physical market drowning in unsold sanctioned barrels. Trade sources say Beijing has handed out roughly 8 million tons so far across 21 refiners, a noticeable bump from the 6.04 million tons issued this time last year. Hengli Petrochemical pulled the biggest ladle at 2 million tons, with Rongsheng taking 750,000 tons and Shenghong and Hongrun getting…

China’s independent refiners—the country’s infamous “teapots”— just got their first sip of 2026 crude import quotas. And the timing couldn’t be better for a physical market drowning in unsold sanctioned barrels. Trade sources say Beijing has handed out roughly 8 million tons so far across 21 refiners, a noticeable bump from the 6.04 million tons issued this time last year. Hengli Petrochemical pulled the biggest ladle at 2 million tons, with Rongsheng taking 750,000 tons and Shenghong and Hongrun getting…

China’s independent refiners—the country’s infamous “teapots”— just got their first sip of 2026 crude import quotas. And the timing couldn’t be better for a physical market drowning in unsold sanctioned barrels. Trade sources say Beijing has handed out roughly 8 million tons so far across 21 refiners, a noticeable bump from the 6.04 million tons issued this time last year. Hengli Petrochemical pulled the biggest ladle at 2 million tons, with Rongsheng taking 750,000 tons and Shenghong and Hongrun getting…

Debido a la presencia de un frente frío que se desplaza por el Atlántico y que podría alcanzar el norte del país en los próximos días, se espera que en estos meses de noviembre y diciembre bajen las temperaturas hasta los 14 grados centígrados, advirtió el ingeniero hidrometeorológico Valdemar...

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has just returned from a trip to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where he extracted a $70 billion investment pledge from the Gulf state. The funding is expected to include energy, AI logistics, mining and other strategic industries. Fed up with Donald Trump’s tariffs, Canada’s new government is on a mission to double non-US exports over the next decade and unleash $1 trillion in new investment in Canada over five years, according to a Nov. 21 press release. In conjunction with the UAE announcement,…

José Alejandro Terán, gobernador del estado La Guaira, informó acerca de los nuevos proyectos para el estado litoralense, y que hay más de 18 proyectos activados a través de la Zona Económica Especial (ZEE) de la entidad venezolana. El gobernador del estado guaireño señaló que la Zo...

Angola inaugurated on Thursday its first plant to process non-associated natural gas as the African oil producer looks to develop a standalone gas industry, too. The plant, worth $4 billion, was inaugurated by Angola’s President João Lourenço in the presence of Minerals and Petroleum Minister Diamantino Azevedo. The gas processing facility was built in the Soyo municipality by New Gas Consortium (NGC), which is a first for Angola as it targets to develop and produce non-associated gas located in the offshore gas fields. Historically,…

27 de noviembre de 2025.- El presidente de Francia, Emmanuel Macron, anunció este jueves 27 de noviembre la implementación de un nuevo Servicio Militar Voluntario a partir del verano de 2026, una medida que busca enfrentar las supuestas «crecientes amenazas» externas. Macron detalló que el nuevo ...

The Cloud" might be the greatest branding trick in history. It sounds fluffy, ethereal, and notably light. It implies that our digital lives…our emails, our crypto wallets, our endless scrolling…exist in some vaporous layer of the atmosphere, detached from earthly constraints. But if you actually drive out to Loudoun County, Virginia, or stare at the arid plains of Altoona, Iowa, you realize the Cloud is actually just a very big, very loud, and very hot factory. We’ve been telling ourselves a lovely story about the energy transition.…

A través de un comunicado, la aerolínea Avianca informó que reprogramará sus vuelos entre Bogotá y Caracas del día 27 de noviembre para el próximo viernes 5 de diciembre, tras los ajustes hechos en la operación de la empresa «a raíz de la alerta emitida por la Administración Federal de A...

Jehiely Díaz Rojas, una venezolana de 22 años de edad que emigró recientemente a Estados Unidos, falleció en Salt Lake City, Utah, presuntamente por inhalación de monóxido de carbono mientras dormía dentro de su vehículo. Díaz, originaria de Caracas, había llegado a Utah hace apenas...

Es 27 de noviembre de 2025. Han transcurrido 331 días del año y faltan 34 días para su terminación. Hoy es jueves. Las efemérides se refieren a sucesos, celebraciones o conmemoraciones significativas para un área del conocimiento, la cultura y las artes, la historia o la cien...

As industry concerns over an AI bubble mount, the scale of data center ambitions continues to grow. As of mid-October, the US data center pipeline reached 245 GW of planned capacity, driven by a handful of enormous, speculative projects. These projects, and the renewable deals hyperscalers are signing, skew heavily toward Texas. More than a quarter of pipeline capacity targets the state, whose pipeline nearly doubled from 35 GW in Q1 to 67 GW in Q3.  Data Center Alley gives way to Data Center Prairie   It is conventional wisdom that…

El músico franco-libanés Omar Harfouch, quien renunció a ser miembro del jurado de Miss Universo antes de la gala final, compartió este miércoles 26 de noviembre en sus redes sociales un mensaje que le envió el periodista español Jordin Martin, en el cual afirma que el presidente de la organ...

27 de noviembre de 2025.- Panamá es el país más desigual de Centroamérica, según un informe de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (Cepal), trascendió hoy. El estudio, citado por el diario La Estrella de Panamá, indica que el istmo es también la segunda nación con más brechas en...

La vicepresidenta ejecutiva de la República, Delcy Rodríguez, enfatizó que el Hospital Universitario de Caracas (HUC) será modelo en Latinoamérica, tras las nuevas obras entregadas este miércoles de Obratón. Delcy Rodríguez encabezó la entrega de varias obras en este emblemático cen...

Tankers of the Russian shadow fleet have increased the use of flying false flags this year and exported $5.4 billion (4.7 billion euros) worth of Russian oil between January and September, the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) said in a new report. A total of 113 Russian ‘shadow’ vessels flew a false flag during their operations in the first nine months of 2025, the analysis found. In volumes, 13% of Russian oil transported by ‘shadow’ vessels between January and September 2025 took place on vessels flying…

Tankers of the Russian shadow fleet have increased the use of flying false flags this year and exported $5.4 billion (4.7 billion euros) worth of Russian oil between January and September, the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) said in a new report. A total of 113 Russian ‘shadow’ vessels flew a false flag during their operations in the first nine months of 2025, the analysis found. In volumes, 13% of Russian oil transported by ‘shadow’ vessels between January and September 2025 took place on vessels flying…

27 de noviembre de 2025.- El gobernador del estado La Guaira, José Alejandro Terán, enfatizó este jueves que en la entidad se han generado más de 4.000 nuevos empleos, a través de la creación de la Zona Económica Especial (ZEE) promovida por el jefe de Estado Nicolás Maduro. A través de una entre...