WTI crude futures are trading around $55.81 through Thursday’s close, down 2.60% for the week with one session left. Prices have held within a $54.84–$56.85 range so far, reaching fresh five-year lows before geopolitical headlines generated brief recoveries. The setup continues to reflect a market dominated by oversupply concerns, with traders using geopolitical rallies to sell into strength rather than reprice the broader fundamental picture. Across the week, geopolitical risks, refinery outages, U.S. inventory data, OPEC+ policy decisions,…

Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict New drone attacks on oil-related infrastructure in Sudan have reinforced the risks surrounding South Sudan’s export route to Port Sudan. The attacks did not halt flows, but did further expose the GNPOC pipeline corridor to Sudan’s raging civil war. That corridor runs through West Kordofan, where the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) controls territory around Balila and can restrict movement or interrupt operations without operating the fields themselves. Operators have responded by limiting…

It’s that time of year again, when those who follow or opine on financial markets take stock of the year just gone and look forward to the year to come. In many ways, it might seem like a pointless exercise. I mean, if a year is a long time in politics, it is an eternity in trading, and there is no way of knowing even what will be driving commodity prices twelve months from now, or in which direction. Despite that, though, sober year-end reflection does have a purpose for traders and investors. It enables you to look back at what you got…

The current U.S. approach to Venezuela is a deliberate financial strangulation strategy, as we have previously noted, with the objective of degrading Maduro’s ability to fund his patronage network and parallel economic networks. This week’s escalation in the form of asset seizures and tanker interdictions is designed to raise transaction costs prohibitively, if it doesn’t backfire first. This is classic soft regime change logic that assumes–perhaps erroneously–that this economic pain will fragment the elite faster…

Adani Group, the conglomerate of Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, is in talks with the state government of India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state on a public-private partnership to build small modular reactors (SMRs) as India opens its nuclear energy sector to private investment.  Adani Group is in discussions with Uttar Pradesh officials to build eight SMRs with capacity of 200 megawatts (MW) each at yet-to-be-identified sites in the state, anonymous sources with knowledge of the matter told Bloomberg on Friday.  A potential deal…

El presidente de EEUU, Donald Trump, declaró que "no descarta" una posible guerra contra Venezuela tras ordenar lo que llamó un "bloqueo" de los petroleros sancionados que entran y salen del país. El mandatario aseguró que habrá más incautaciones de petroleros ce...

El Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas (ONU) programó para el martes 23 de diciembre una reunión de urgencia solicitada por Venezuela para tratar la "agresión abierta y criminal del imperialismo estadounidense" tras la incautación de un buque petrolero venezolano por parte de...

La organización nacionalista puertorriqueño sumó su repudio a la política de agresión estadounidense contra Venezuela, subrayando su apoyo al pueblo venezolanos. El Movimiento Ñin Negrón de Puerto Rico denunció el jueves "las burdas acciones del imperio y los crímenes de lesa h...

Shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk completed on Friday the first transit of a container ship via the Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb Strait in almost two years, after having stopped voyages through the Suez Canal following Houthi attacks on vessels in the region.    Since December 2023, global shipping traffic has been upended by intensified attacks from the Iran-aligned Houthis in Yemen on commercial vessels transiting the Red Sea before and after entering or exiting the Suez Canal. The Houthi attacks forced many tanker and container…

De acuerdo a la última auditoria de datos publicada por la Secretaría de la OPEP en julio de 2025, Venezuela se...

En horas de la mañana se estiman condiciones meteorológicas estables, lo que significa cielo poco nublado en gran parte del territorio nacional; no obstante, se esperan mantos nubosos productores de precipitaciones en partes de Amazonas, Bolívar, este de Sucre, Delta Amacuro, La Región Insular...

El presidente de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros, expresó de forma contundente, como un juramento al Comandante Eterno Hugo Chávez, de romper en el pais el maleficio de la traición.

Russia and China aren’t even attempting to hide anymore the rise of sanctioned LNG trade as they continue to defy U.S. and other Western sanctions on Russian energy exports and vessels of the shadow fleet.  The China-linked Kunpeng LNG carrier has docked at Portovaya, a small export plant on the Baltic Sea run by Russia’s gas giant Gazprom, marking the first time a Chinese tanker has been sent to ship LNG from the export facility sanctioned by the United States, vessel-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg showed on Friday. …

19-12-25.-YouTube ha decidido pasar al ataque contra la aparición masiva de canales que se nutren de vídeos generados por IA. No obstante, la plataforma lo hace a través de una estrategia muy planificada. Aunque YouTube no tiene intención de bloquear todos los vídeos generados por IA, el servicio...

19-12-25.-El torneo se disputará del 1 al 7 de febrero en el Estadio Panamericano en Guadalajara, México, anunciado la noche del jueves Salvador Escobar, el presidente de la Liga Argo Mexicana del Pacífico durante una rueda de prensa. Sin embargo, Venezuela podría no ser parte del campeonato. La ...

19-12-25.-Frente a las afirmaciones del presidente estadounidense norteamericano Donald Trump en las que sostiene que Venezuela cometió un robo a los Estados Unidos al nacionalizar la industria petrolera, Rafael Quiroz Serrano señala que no hay deuda posible con los Estados Unidos. El economista ...

Harbour Energy has made a gas and condensate discovery in the Norwegian section of the North Sea, which could be tied back to existing infrastructure, the Norwegian Offshore Directorate said on Friday.  Harbour Energy, as operator of the license, and its partners have proven gas condensate in the ‘Camilla Nord’ prospect, the regulator said, adding that preliminary estimates indicate the size of the discovery is between 2.2 million and 4.7 million barrels of oil equivalent.   Wildcat wells 35/8-8 S and A were drilled in…

19-12-25.-Saludos, compañeras y compañeros que se encuentran en el Acto Internacionalista. Desde Venezuela, un país que se encuentra asediado y agredido por el imperialismo de Estados Unidos, y que se encuentra bajo un gobierno que alejándose del movimiento de masas, ha decidido pisotearla bajo un r...

El primer año de Comunes, una corriente de izquierda que está buscando una tercera opción para Venezuela, encuentra al país en una coyuntura complicada: afuera, la presión militar de Estados Unidos en el mar Caribe (con más de 80 pérdidas humanas) y la advertencia de que vendrán cosas peores; ...

19-12-25.-El presidente del Consejo de Derechos Humanos de Naciones Unidas, Jürg Lauber, designó a los abogados Alex Neve (Canadá) y María Eloísa Quintero (Argentina-México) como expertos de la Misión de Determinación de Hechos sobre Venezuela. Estos expertos sustituyen a Francisco Cox y Patricia...