Equatorial Guinea is looking to strike prepaid oil and LNG delivery deals with commodity traders as OPEC’s smallest oil producer needs money to maintain operating fields and revive its upstream sector, anonymous sources with knowledge of the plans told Bloomberg on Tuesday.   The central African country has been struggling to attract upstream investments in recent years and has seen its oil production drop. The country has also been an LNG exporter for two decades.  But Equatorial Guinea needs capital to cover expenses and…

Equatorial Guinea is looking to strike prepaid oil and LNG delivery deals with commodity traders as OPEC’s smallest oil producer needs money to maintain operating fields and revive its upstream sector, anonymous sources with knowledge of the plans told Bloomberg on Tuesday.   The central African country has been struggling to attract upstream investments in recent years and has seen its oil production drop. The country has also been an LNG exporter for two decades.  But Equatorial Guinea needs capital to cover expenses and…

20 de enero de 2026.- Los trabajadores de Petroperú, de conjunto con las centrales sindicales de la Confederación General de Trabajadores de ese país (CGTP) y la Central Unitaria de Trabajadores (CUT), se movilizan nuevamente este martes en rechazo al proceso de privatización de dicha empresa que im...

Nationwide protests in Iran are threatening to disrupt the country’s upstream sector and underscoring a deeper economic crisis that has fueled domestic turmoil. Iran has restored output and exports despite sanctions, but at a rising cost: deeper discounts to China, expensive ‘shadow’ logistics and shrinking fiscal buffers, including the near depletion of its National Development Fund (NDF). Rystad Energy’s analysis shows Iranian crude production is expected to remain stable at around 3.2 million barrels per day (bpd) this…

U.S. natural gas prices surged sharply on Tuesday, posting one of the largest single-day gains seen this winter as the market quickly repriced near-term supply risk. Front-month Henry Hub futures spiked more than 25 percent and briefly traded near $3.90 per million British thermal units. It is a level not seen in weeks. The immediate driver is the weather. Forecast models over the past 48 hours flipped decisively colder, showing a sustained Arctic outbreak in the Midwest and Northeast into late January. That matters because heating demand had already…

U.S. natural gas prices surged sharply on Tuesday, posting one of the largest single-day gains seen this winter as the market quickly repriced near-term supply risk. Front-month Henry Hub futures spiked more than 25 percent and briefly traded near $3.90 per million British thermal units. It is a level not seen in weeks. The immediate driver is the weather. Forecast models over the past 48 hours flipped decisively colder, showing a sustained Arctic outbreak in the Midwest and Northeast into late January. That matters because heating demand had already…

La representante Yassamin Ansari, demócrata por Arizona, afirmó el lunes en una publicación en X que el presidente Donald está «mentalmente enfermo» y debería ser destituido «de inmediato» de tu cargo mediante la 25.

Pakistan’s state-owned Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) on Tuesday said it had made an oil and gas discovery at its exploratory well Baragzai X-01 in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, which would boost domestic supply and Pakistan’s energy security.  A Cased Hole Drill Stem Test at in Samana Suk and Shinawari formations showed the well flowed at the rate of 3,100 barrels of oil per day (bpd) and 8.15 million standard cubic feet per day of gas, OGDC said. “This discovery will contribute towards mitigating the…

Pakistan’s state-owned Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) on Tuesday said it had made an oil and gas discovery at its exploratory well Baragzai X-01 in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, which would boost domestic supply and Pakistan’s energy security.  A Cased Hole Drill Stem Test at in Samana Suk and Shinawari formations showed the well flowed at the rate of 3,100 barrels of oil per day (bpd) and 8.15 million standard cubic feet per day of gas, OGDC said. “This discovery will contribute towards mitigating the…

Pakistan’s state-owned Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) on Tuesday said it had made an oil and gas discovery at its exploratory well Baragzai X-01 in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, which would boost domestic supply and Pakistan’s energy security.  A Cased Hole Drill Stem Test at in Samana Suk and Shinawari formations showed the well flowed at the rate of 3,100 barrels of oil per day (bpd) and 8.15 million standard cubic feet per day of gas, OGDC said. “This discovery will contribute towards mitigating the…

El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, publicó este martes en su red social una fotografía de una reunión que mantuvo con dirigentes europeos a la que ha incorporado una imagen generada con Inteligencia Artificial (IA) de un mapa de América en el que Venezuela, Groenlandia y Canadá apa...

20 de enero de 2026.- La presidenta encargada, Delcy Rodríguez, continúa realizando cambios en el tren ministerial. En esta oportunidad, anunció la designación de la Dra. Nuramy Josefa Gutiérrez González como nueva ministra para la Salud y el nombramiento de Calixto Ortega Sánchez como presidente de...

Por: David Brooks Un anuncio circula por las redes sociales, en color púrpura, que sólo dice: "nadie jamás pensó que la revolución empezaría en Mineápolis, con la excepción de Prince (el roquero era oriundo de la ciudad)". Algo sucede en la principal ciudad de Minesota que...

Oil markets are ignoring Trump’s Greenland drama as a fire at Kazakhstan’s giant Tengiz field tightens supply, lifting Brent back to $65. China Embraces Dominant Power-Producer Role - With China’s National Bureau of Statistics finally publishing data for December 2025, Beijing can now officially declare that 2025 saw the first annual drop in fossil-fuel power generation since 2015.- Thermal electricity generation amounted to 6.29 trillion kWh last year, down 1% from a year ago, even though coal output soared to another all-time…

Saudi oil giant Aramco expects AI and other advanced technology to have helped it achieve in 2025 a technology realized value of between $3 billion and $5 billion, chief executive Amin Nasser said on Tuesday.  The world’s biggest oil firm in both production and market capitalization had total realized technology value of $6 billion in the period 2023-2024, the executive said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.  Through increased use of AI and other advanced tech, Aramco realizes savings in drilling costs, well productivity,…

Saudi oil giant Aramco expects AI and other advanced technology to have helped it achieve in 2025 a technology realized value of between $3 billion and $5 billion, chief executive Amin Nasser said on Tuesday.  The world’s biggest oil firm in both production and market capitalization had total realized technology value of $6 billion in the period 2023-2024, the executive said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.  Through increased use of AI and other advanced tech, Aramco realizes savings in drilling costs, well productivity,…

El Gobierno de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela, a través de sus canales oficiales de comunicación, rechazó de manera enérgica y desmintió la publicación del medio i...

Decenas de personas se reunieron este lunes frente a la embajada de Estados Unidos en la Ciudad de México para formalizar la creación del Frente

La presidenta encargada de la República, Delcy Rodríguez, anunció la ejecución de un plan estratégico que busca incrementar la producción de oro y minerales críticos en un 30% durante el presente año. Esta proyección tiene como objetivo principal fortalecer las reservas internaciona...

The usually bustling streets of Iran’s capital are largely empty as security forces reassert their control after crushing unprecedented protests against the country’s clerical rulers. Residents of Tehran describe a city under virtual martial law, with security personnel deployed on the streets and residents largely staying indoors. Many shops and restaurants close in the evening. “The feeling of martial law is completely in place at night," a man in his 70s who left Iran on January 17 told RFE/RL's Radio Farda. "One of the reasons…