A supertanker carrying 2 million barrels of Saudi crude is set to arrive in Japan early next week after clearing the Strait of Hormuz in late April, in the first shipment of Middle East crude to Japan via the chokepoint since the Iran war began on February 28. The very large crude carrier (VLCC) Idemitsu Maru, which had departed from Saudi Arabia’s Ras Tanura port in the Persian Gulf in mid-March, is expected to arrive in Nagoya on May 25, data on MarineTraffic showed. As of early Friday, the supertanker was close to the coasts of Japan.…

22-05-26.-La cuenta oficial de la Casa Blanca difundió este miércoles una imagen en la que aparecen varios líderes internacionales señalados como “enemigos neutralizados” por Estados Unidos, entre ellos los expresidentes Nicolás Maduro y Raúl Castro. El cartel presenta a cuatro figuras con etique...

22-05-26.-Dirigentes del sector transporte aseguraron que el pasaje mínimo urbano quedó en 140 bolívares por un acuerdo entre el gobierno y los representantes del sector. La medida entraría en vigencia a partir del 1 de junio. La decisión habría sido tomada en el Órgano Superior del Transporte...

22-05-26..-Luis Hernández, padre de Aranza de los Ángeles Hernández Castillo, de 20 años de edad, abogó por su libertad este jueves 21 de mayo. «Su único delito es ser hermana de un militar disidente», escribió en su cuenta en X. La joven fue detenida el 21 de noviembre de 2025. Dos días antes, ...

22-05-26.-El periodista y conductor del espacio “La Hojilla”, Mario Silva, profundizó este martes sus cuestionamientos públicos por la entrega del exministro Álex Saab a Estados Unidos, en una señal de las crecientes tensiones al interior del chavismo. En su programa La Hojilla, transmitido por ...

22-05-26.-Un grupo no identificado públicamente emitió un «pronunciamiento ciudadano» en el que rechazan la realización del simulacro de evacuación en la embajada de los Estados Unidos (EEUU) en Caracas el próximo sábado 23 de mayo. ...

22-05-26.-Los docentes jubilados denuncian desigualdad de condiciones socioeconómicas con relación a los profesionales activos, exigen la recuperación integral del salario y su calidad de vida, que se ha visto mermada debido al estancamiento del salario mínimo durante cuatro años. En su cuenta en...

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged the government to urgently explore an increase in the use of alternative energy sources, including biogas as a substitute for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), as the Middle East crisis is choking oil and gas supply to the world’s third-largest crude importer. Modi also urged ministers to move faster with implementing reforms to turn India into a developed nation by 2047, the goal for its 100th independence anniversary. India has been grappling with the energy crisis that the Iran war created.…

Risks to oil prices are firmly skewed higher amid plunging global oil inventories in the worst supply disruption in history, according to Barclays. The investment bank on Friday kept its $100 per barrel Brent forecast for 2026, but warned that the risks are skewed to the upside as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has been draining U.S. and global inventories to multi-year lows.   “Inventory trends are signaling a 6-8 (million bpd) deficit with the U.S. inventories within reach of the lowest levels since 2020,” analysts at Barclays…

22-05-26.-.El Departamento de Seguridad Nacional de EE. UU. arrestó este jueves a Adys Lastres Morera, hermana de la jefa del conglomerado militar cubano Gaesa. Las autoridades federales informaron que este consorcio controla el 70% de la economía de la isla y gestiona activos valorados en 18.000 mi...

India’s power generation rose to a new all-time high amid hot weather that drove air-conditioning demand up, with thermal generation, most of its coming from coal power plants, covering 62% of demand. Power demand on Thursday hit 271 GW, on the “fourth consecutive day when the peak power demand (solar hours) reached a new all-time high,” India’s power ministry said, as quoted by AFP. After milder temperatures tempered demand growth in the fiscal year to March 2026 to the lowest level in six years, demand is now beating peak…

India’s power generation rose to a new all-time high amid hot weather that drove air-conditioning demand up, with thermal generation, most of its coming from coal power plants, covering 62% of demand. Power demand on Thursday hit 271 GW, on the “fourth consecutive day when the peak power demand (solar hours) reached a new all-time high,” India’s power ministry said, as quoted by AFP. After milder temperatures tempered demand growth in the fiscal year to March 2026 to the lowest level in six years, demand is now beating peak…

22-05-26.- La defensora del pueblo, Eglée González Lobato, realizó un recorrido por las instalaciones de la Entidad de Atención al Adolescente «Dr. José Gregorio Hernández», ubicada en la parroquia Antímano. En compañía de la magistrada Carmen Marisela Castro Gilly, presidenta de la Sala Penal de...

22-05-26.-El precio del dólar en el Banco Central de Venezuela (BCV) se cotizó este jueves 21 de mayo 2026 en Bs.526,86 por unidad según la última actualización en su página web oficial y redes sociales. El euro...

China y Rusia han condenado la decisión de Estados Unidos de acusar de asesinato al expresidente cubano Raúl Castro. 21 de mayo de 2026.-El Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores chino instó a Estados Unidos a cesar el uso de la "coerción" y las "amenazas" con...

con sobrevuelo y aterrizaje de dos aeronaves Caracas, 21 de mayo de 2026.- ...

El gigante petrolero estadounidense está negociando un acuerdo para bombear petróleo en Venezuela, poniendo fin a un enfrentamiento con sus gobernantes socialistas y marcando una victoria para el presidente Trump. 21 de mayo de 2026.-La mayor compañía...

Saudi crude exports have been falling since the US- Iran war began, but the latest slide is no longer just a story of disrupted trade routes. Cargoes scheduled to sail from Saudi Arabia in May are now assessed at roughly 3.9 million b/d (historic lows), while almost every major Saudi buyer – China, Japan, South Korea, India and Taiwan – is cutting nominations for the months ahead. China, still Saudi Aramco’s largest customer, is expected to take only about 600,000 b/d of Saudi crude in June, roughly half April’s volume.…

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has explicitly linked oil exploration and rare-earth mining to Brazil's national sovereignty, declaring that the country’s subsoil resources must be used to drive domestic industrialization rather than enrich foreign nations. Speaking at Petrobras’(NYSE:PBR) giant refinery, Refinaria de Paulínia (Replan), in São Paulo, Lula emphasized that Brazil must actively extract its natural resources in a bid to secure its geopolitical and economic future.  Defying foreign…

The oil market still looks surprisingly calm for a system that has spent nearly three months absorbing the largest supply disruption in modern history. That should probably make people nervous. Because underneath the headline inventory numbers, the market has gone from adding barrels to burning through them. And lately, it has been using emergency reserves to help keep the machinery running. The inventory picture still looks comfortable if you zoom out far enough. According to Oilprice.com's analysis of weekly API data, U.S. commercial crude inventories…