Chinese state oil giant Sinopec, Asia’s biggest refiner by capacity, will not buy Iranian oil even after the U.S. waiver on purchases of crude from Iran loaded on tankers as of March 20, a senior Sinopec executive said on Monday.      Sinopec, officially known as China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, is weighing the potential risks of Iranian oil trade and “basically won't buy” Iranian crude, the company’s president Zhao Dong said, as carried by Reuters.   The U.S. Treasury Department’s…

Lunes, 23 de marzo de 2026.- ¿Quién manda en Venezuela? De acuerdo a la Constitución de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela, (CRBV) ante las ausencias temporales del Presidente de la República, debe encargarse de la presidencia el vicepresidente o vicepresidenta por 90 días, prolongables a 90 ...

With events in the Middle East once again disrupting global energy markets, we need to revisit one of our favorite energy policy concepts, the energy trilemma, a simple variant of the trolley problem with an added variable. The three variables are 1) affordability, 2) security of energy supply (can a hostile government cut off your supply?), and sustainability (are your energy sources heavy polluters or consumers of finite resources?).  The trilemma says that policymakers can only enjoy two out of three of these variables, with the third one…

Mientras el mundo mira hacia el conflicto con Irán, en las tierras de Cisjordania se ha desatado una cacería humana de proporciones alarmantes. Lo que comenzó como un trágico incidente vial —la muerte del joven Yehuda Sherman (18) en su cuatrimoto— se ha transformado en el detonant...

Europe’s gasoline exports have started to increasingly shift to Asia in recent weeks as the crude supply shock in the Middle East is tightening Asian fuel supply.  Europe usually ships most of its exported gasoline to the United States, West Africa, and South America. But in these unusual times of the biggest disruption in the oil market ever, more European gasoline cargoes are bound for Asia.   Over the past week, at least 1.6 million barrels of gasoline, carried by three tankers, have loaded from Europe and are en route to…

Europe’s gasoline exports have started to increasingly shift to Asia in recent weeks as the crude supply shock in the Middle East is tightening Asian fuel supply.  Europe usually ships most of its exported gasoline to the United States, West Africa, and South America. But in these unusual times of the biggest disruption in the oil market ever, more European gasoline cargoes are bound for Asia.   Over the past week, at least 1.6 million barrels of gasoline, carried by three tankers, have loaded from Europe and are en route to…

Europe’s gasoline exports have started to increasingly shift to Asia in recent weeks as the crude supply shock in the Middle East is tightening Asian fuel supply.  Europe usually ships most of its exported gasoline to the United States, West Africa, and South America. But in these unusual times of the biggest disruption in the oil market ever, more European gasoline cargoes are bound for Asia.   Over the past week, at least 1.6 million barrels of gasoline, carried by three tankers, have loaded from Europe and are en route to…

23 de marzo de 2026.- La Asociación CANAÁN en su Canal YouTube: Palestina 11 mil años de historia, reitera cuál es la razón de ser y raíz de la lucha del pueblo nativo semita Palestino, esta reiteración es a fin de sacarla de tanta confusión y abstracción que sirve a que el público no conozca el...

Whilst most people will have seen the virtue of stopping Iran from ever developing nuclear weapons, many may now regard U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to achieve this as being in the same vein as the famous business plan of the South Park gnomes to ‘make profit by stealing underpants’. This ran as follows -- ‘Phase 1: Collect underpants, Phase 2: ?, Phase 3: Profit’. Trump’s variation seems to have been -- ‘Phase 1: Kill Supreme Leader, Phase 2: ?, Phase 3: Iran never develops nuclear weapons’.…

Colombia’s economically vital oil industry is caught in a death spiral. Production recently collapsed to multi-year lows as foreign energy investment dries up. Once South America’s third-largest oil producer, Colombia slipped to fifth place after being overtaken by Argentina and Guyana. The reforms implemented by Colombia’s first leftist President, Gustavo Petro, including tax hikes, a ban on hydraulic fracturing, and the cessation of issuing exploration contracts, are deterring foreign investors. This is sharply impacting the…

Worldwide LNG exports have plunged in the past week to a six-month low as Middle Eastern supply collapsed with the de facto closed Strait of Hormuz and the outage at the world’s biggest LNG complex in Qatar.  Global LNG shipments have plunged to about 1.1 million tons over the 10-day moving average, down by 20% since the war began, a Bloomberg analysis of Kpler vessel-tracking data showed.  Qatar is the primary driver of the lost LNG supply following the halt of production and exports. Supply is also lost from the United Arab Emirates…

Worldwide LNG exports have plunged in the past week to a six-month low as Middle Eastern supply collapsed with the de facto closed Strait of Hormuz and the outage at the world’s biggest LNG complex in Qatar.  Global LNG shipments have plunged to about 1.1 million tons over the 10-day moving average, down by 20% since the war began, a Bloomberg analysis of Kpler vessel-tracking data showed.  Qatar is the primary driver of the lost LNG supply following the halt of production and exports. Supply is also lost from the United Arab Emirates…

Israel lanzó una nueva ola de ataques contra infraestructuras energéticas y tecnológicas en Teherán, capital de Irán, durante la noche del domingo y las primeras horas de este lunes, según informó la Fuerza de Defensa de Israel. El operativo provocó cortes eléctricos ...

La red de salud pública del estado Mérida desplegó una nueva y exitosa jornada de cirugías especializadas para niños y niñas en el Hospital Tipo I "Dr. Francisco Vicente Gutiérrez" del municipio Rangel. Esta iniciativa, fruto de la sinergia entre la gobernación y la municipalidad, bu...

En el marco del Día Mundial del Agua, este domingo 22 de marzo se desarrolló un despliegue multidisciplinario en la quebrada Chacaíto, ubicada en el Parque Nacional Waraira Repano, como parte de las acciones permanentes orientadas a la preservación de los espacios naturales y la protección de ...

Por la defensa de los espacios macuteños que deben ser preservados, su historia, flora y fauna autóctona:   El Paseo Macuto, fundado a finales del siglo XIX por el empuje de figuras como el presidente Guzmán Blanco para ser la "Niza de América", e...

Long before trade wars and tariffs, China secured manufacturing dominance by controlling rare earths - a reality so consequential that the United States and its allies are now pledging more than $8.5 billion just to claw back some control of the supply chain. As global manufacturing expanded over the past two decades, rare earth processing was steadily pushed out of Western supply chains. It was capital-intensive, technically demanding, and difficult to defend on short-term economics.  China made the opposite choice, keeping those capabilities…

Según datos del Instituto de Recursos Mundiales (WRI), Chile se encamina a una situación crítica de supervivencia. Para el año 2040, la nación se convertirá en el primer país de América Latina en integrar el ranking mundial de las 33 naciones con mayor estrés hídrico, ocupando el puesto número...

Delcy Rodríguez, quien ocupa el cargo de presidenta encargada desde la captura de Nicolás Maduro, advirtió que el sistema eléctrico nacional estará las próximas semanas en una situación vulnerable, algo que atribuyó a la incidencia solar perpendicular sobre el territorio venezolano. ...

The oil-driven inflation shock rippling through global markets is now forcing a sharp rethink of U.S. monetary policy, with traders rapidly shifting from rate-cut expectations to pricing in potential hikes as crude continues to surge on Middle East supply disruptions. According to Bloomberg, markets are reassessing the Federal Reserve’s path as energy-driven inflation risks intensify. Fed funds futures now indicate a 50% probability that benchmark rates will be higher by at least 25 basis points after the September FOMC meeting, marking a…