Russia's crude exports from its western ports could fall by as much as 200,000 barrels per day in November as refiners increase diesel production under Moscow's new agreement with Washington, according to preliminary loading schedules cited by Reuters on Tuesday. Two traders expect shipments from Russia's Baltic and Black Sea ports to decline by 100,000 to 200,000 bpd from October. The estimates include Kazakh crude transported through Russian pipelines. Russian refineries have increased processing since the October 9 diesel agreement between Presidents…

Russia's crude exports from its western ports could fall by as much as 200,000 barrels per day in November as refiners increase diesel production under Moscow's new agreement with Washington, according to preliminary loading schedules cited by Reuters on Tuesday. Two traders expect shipments from Russia's Baltic and Black Sea ports to decline by 100,000 to 200,000 bpd from October. The estimates include Kazakh crude transported through Russian pipelines. Russian refineries have increased processing since the October 9 diesel agreement between Presidents…

Russia's crude exports from its western ports could fall by as much as 200,000 barrels per day in November as refiners increase diesel production under Moscow's new agreement with Washington, according to preliminary loading schedules cited by Reuters on Tuesday. Two traders expect shipments from Russia's Baltic and Black Sea ports to decline by 100,000 to 200,000 bpd from October. The estimates include Kazakh crude transported through Russian pipelines. Russian refineries have increased processing since the October 9 diesel agreement between Presidents…

27 de octubre de 2026.- La ministra para Hidrocarburos, Paula Henao, señaló que Venezuela actualmente ocupa el noveno lugar mundial en reservas de gas y proyecta ocupar el cuarto puesto tras la cuantificación de los recursos en el mar territorial y las áreas costa afuera. La titular de Hidrocarb...

Lunes, 26 de octubre de 2026.- Japón dice querer la PAZ pero se prepara para otra cosa: su rearme alarma a Rusia, China y Norcorea ¿Puede el país más pacifista del mundo (Japón) convertirse, de la noche a la mañana, en el nuevo dolor de cabeza de Asia? Durante casi 80 años, la Constitución ...

Good news.  Electric grid reliability was a lot better in 2025 than in 2024. But one swallow does not make a spring, as Aristotle noted, a number of years ago. Grid reliability, we believe, has been trending downward since the turn of the century, that is, since deregulation really got rolling. Okay, you could argue, as a good logician, that this is an example of a post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy, that is, because event B took place after event A must mean that A caused B.  We admit that. We’re just pointing out the chronology,…

Al menos cuatro civiles y dos policías resultaron heridos este martes por la detonación de un artefacto explosivo en Cúcuta, ciudad colombiana fronteriza con Venezuela, cerca del puente internacional Francisco de Paula Santander, informaron fuentes oficiales. "Se escuchó una ex...

Saudi Aramco is offering additional crude to European refiners for October and November loading, just weeks after telling customers they would receive no oil under their October contracts following an attack on the kingdom's East-West pipeline. The Saudi oil giant offered late-October spot cargoes at a discount to its official selling price, according to Bloomberg, citing a person familiar with the matter. The shipments were available from either the Red Sea port of Yanbu or Sidi Kerir on Egypt's Mediterranean coast. Aramco followed those offers…

Saudi Aramco is offering additional crude to European refiners for October and November loading, just weeks after telling customers they would receive no oil under their October contracts following an attack on the kingdom's East-West pipeline. The Saudi oil giant offered late-October spot cargoes at a discount to its official selling price, according to Bloomberg, citing a person familiar with the matter. The shipments were available from either the Red Sea port of Yanbu or Sidi Kerir on Egypt's Mediterranean coast. Aramco followed those offers…

El presidente de EE.UU., Donald Trump, resaltó este 27 de octubre que ha convertido al hemisferio occidental en la capital energética del mundo tras su "renovada relación con Venezuela". Rumbo a la ciudad de Corpus Christi, en Texas, para participar en un mitin republ...

27 de octubre de 2026.- El Ejecutivo Nacional, a través del Ministerio del Poder Popular de Economía y Finanzas (Mppef), y el Banco Central de Venezuela (BCV) oficializaron la suscripción del Acuerdo Anual de Políticas Económicas para el ejercicio fiscal 2027. La rúbrica del documento estuvo a ca...

CUCUTA.-El exsecretario de Gobierno y candidato a la Alcaldía de Cúcuta a las elecciones de 2027, Miguel Castellanos Serrano, fue asesinado durante un atentado mientras viajaba con su hijo por un tramo de la carretera de la capital del departamento de Norte de Santander, en otro hecho...

Estados Unidos descarta por el momento la celebración de elecciones en Venezuela al considerar que el sistema institucional actual no garantiza unos comicios libres y justos. Washington condiciona la convocatoria electoral a una reforma profunda de las instituciones venezolanas, en el marco de...

NUEVA YORK / MOSCÚ.– En un movimiento estratégico que reconfigura el mapa geopolítico y energético global, una flotilla de buques petroleros cargados en su conjunto con cerca de un millón de barriles de productos petrolíferos zarpó desde el puerto de Primorsk, en la región de Leningrado,...

Kazakhstan marked perhaps the high point of its presidentially proclaimed “year of artificial intelligence” with a visit by technology titan, Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, who said the Central Asian state has the potential to become “a global hub for Physical AI.” Huang and Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev met on October 23 for talks aimed at bolstering collaboration between the chipmaking giant and Kazakh companies. Huang praised the Kazakh tech ecosystem as possessing all the prerequisites to become an AI…

Brent holds near $115 as Iran war tensions and escalating Saudi-Houthi hostilities keep oil markets on edge ahead of U.S. midterms. Hormuz Becomes Even More Dangerous — and More Expensive - October has seen the most acute escalation in maritime attacks since the US-Iran war started eight months ago, with already more than 30 incidents recorded in the Strait of Hormuz and surrounding waterways, up from 14 in September.    - The most recent addition to the list of maritime targets is a crude tanker in Iraq’s exclusive economic…

En opinión de María Verdeal, vicepresidenta del MAS, María Corina Machado debe convocar a todos los sectores democráticos y sumarse al proceso de transición política en el marco del entendimiento, respeto a las diferencias, reconocimiento mutuo, reconciliación y garantías institucionales, como...

BOCAS DE PALO, Colombia (IPS) Cuando se encendieron las luces de la cancha de fútbol, Zuleima Romero descubrió que era el lugar donde siempre quería estar. Durante años, la falta de electricidad en ese punto de encuentro de Bocas del Palo, una comunidad afrodescendiente del Valle del Cauca en ...

The Department of Defense is preparing for a potential "doomsday" scenario in which America's power grid collapses, supply chains grind to a halt, and military installations are forced to operate for three months without outside support, according to Fox News. The unprecedented plan, branded FORTRESS by Pentagon planners, aims to make major military bases across the continental United States capable of functioning independently for at least 90 days, according to documents obtained by the news outlet. U.S. Air Force airmen and civilian contractors…

While the world moves increasingly closer to reaching its target to triple renewable energy capacity by 2030, this may not be sufficient to meet global climate goals as energy demand is now rising faster than previously expected, the head of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) says. “We are getting closer and closer to the (target of) 11.2TW by 2030,” IRENA’s Director-General, Francesco La Camera, told CNA on the sidelines of the Singapore International Energy Week. However, the goal, set out during the 2023 COP…