23-10-26.-Tras perder sus viviendas por los terremotos del 24 de junio, al menos nueve personas mayores de 60 años consultadas por El Pitazo aseguran que no han podido acceder a créditos bancarios para adquirir una nueva vivienda. La edad, sus ingresos como jubilados y la exigencia de fiad...

23-10-26.-Luisa González, excandidata presidencial del correísmo en las dos últimas elecciones celebradas en Ecuador en 2023 y 2025, fue detenida en la madrugada de este jueves por la Policía Nacional, a escasas cinco semanas de la celebración en el país andino de elecciones locales. La detención...

The benchmark European natural gas price jumped by 3% at opening in Amsterdam on Friday as the Middle East escalation continues to restrict Qatari LNG flows and some EU countries started tapping gas in storage as temperatures drop. The front-month price at the Dutch Title Transfer Facility (TTF), the benchmark for Europe’s gas trading, jumped by 3% at 7 a.m. Amsterdam time on Friday, as oil prices also rose, and Brent hit a five-month high of $114 per barrel as concerns grow that Houthi attacks could hit Saudi Arabian energy facilities. At…

23-10-26.-Cifras oficiales de Venezuela indican que el país posee la mayor reserva probada de crudo en el planeta, estimada oficialmente en 303.000 millones de barriles. Pero, analistas y expertos del sector energético advierten que dicha cifra se basa en datos gubernamentales...

23-10-26.-Desde el lunes 19 de octubre, trabajadores petroleros protagonizan paralizaciones y protestas contra los salarios de miseria, el deterioro de las condiciones laborales, el incumplimiento de derechos contractuales y por el convenio colectivo. El conflicto tiene su principal foco en el...

Italian energy group Eni is boosting its payout to investors with an extraordinary dividend and increased share buybacks after more than doubling its third-quarter earnings on higher oil and gas production and soaring refining margins. Eni’s adjusted net profit more than doubled from a year earlier to $3.14 billion (2.8 billion euros) for the third quarter, driven by higher oil and gas production and realizations and more than doubled refining margins across its operations, the Italian company said on Friday. The profit topped consensus estimates…

23-10-26.-Delcy Rodríguez recibió este jueves 22 de octubre en el Palacio de Miraflores a los jefes negociadores del oficialismo y de la oposición tras culminar la tercera ronda del ciclo de conversaciones. A la reunión asistieron el presidente de la Asamblea Nacional y representante del interinato ...

23-10-26.-El precio del dólar en el Banco Central de Venezuela (BCV) se cotizó este jueves 22 de octubre 2026 en Bs.886,22 por unidad según la última actualización en su página web oficial y redes social...

22 de octubre de 2026.-El Departamento de Estado advierte públicamente a los estadounidenses sobre la delincuencia violenta en partes de América Latina; sin embargo, en privado, ha proporcionado a los funcionarios encargados de los casos de asilo nuevas evaluaciones que sostienen que las condi...

For years, the West has searched for a technological escape hatch from rare earths. Engineers have developed new motor designs, alternative magnet chemistries, and materials that reduce or even eliminate the need for some critical minerals. Every time China tightens export controls, those efforts receive another burst of attention. They're worth pursuing. But they don't answer the question manufacturers have to solve today. Production capacity has become the number one scarce asset. That realization is driving one of the most ambitious industrial…

Last month, Shell (NYSE:SHEL), alongside Malaysia's PETRONAS, China's PetroChina, Mitsubishi Corporation and KOGAS, officially approved the Final Investment Decision (FID) for the LNG Canada Phase 2 expansion project, doubling the facility's capacity to 28 million tons per annum (mtpa) and reinforcing the country's potential as a significant long-term supplier to Asian markets. Together with Cedar LNG and Woodfibre, both currently under construction, Canada is expected to export 33 mtpa of LNG by the end of the current decade.  According to…

Todo el cuerpo de policía a tiempo completo y el administrador municipal de una localidad de Georgia renuncian en medio de acusaciones contra el alcalde 22 de octubre de 2026.-El jefe de policía, Lamar Bunn, acusó al ayuntamiento de haber colocado en...

China has relied on its huge crude oil inventories since the Iran war hiked oil prices to above $100 per barrel. The world’s biggest crude importer has drawn from its 1.3-billion-barrel stash for most of the months after March as it slashed imports amid soaring prices. The stock draws, and the reduced imports in the spring and summer, have even kept benchmark crude oil prices in check despite the major disruption to flows from the Middle East, as China’s crude supply management was one of the key buffers the market has had since the…

El otorgamiento de créditos busca convertir a los pequeños productores merideños en grandes comercializadores con proyecciones al mercado internacional 22 de octubre de 2026.-La Gobernación del estado Mérida, bajo la gestión del gobernador Arnaldo Sánchez, fue sede de una exp...

The European Union will shun crude oil and natural gas produced from fields in the Arctic, recommending that these “stay in the ground” under its new Arctic strategy released this week. The reiteration of the EU’s stance on Arctic hydrocarbons comes amid a severe fuel crisis and soaring gas prices ahead of winter peak demand season. The update on the Arctic strategy of the bloc that has quite limited geographical exposure to the Arctic comes five years after the last one, as the Arctic draws increasing attention, notably from…

22 de octubre de 2026.- La Conferencia Mundial de la Diversidad Biológica (COP17), ya arrancó en Eraván, Armenia, desde donde el ministro del Poder Popular para el Ecosocialismo, Nelson Rodríguez, destacó la condición ecológica del territorio venezolano. "Para nosotros es conocido que, Venezue...

The energy demand boom being driven by the artificial intelligence era is placing unprecedented strain on global energy infrastructure. Not only are the world’s energy production capacities – and especially clean energy production capacities – dwarfed by projected data center energy demand curves in coming years, the physical infrastructure needed to build and sustain never-before-seen rates of electrification and energy consumption growth is woefully underdeveloped. At present, the world’s energy grids and transmission…

22 de octubre de 2026.- El superintendente del Servicio Nacional Integrado de Administración Aduanera y Tributaria (SENIAT), Román Maniglia, anunció la eliminación de la obligatoriedad del uso de máquinas fiscales para los procesos de facturación en el país, dejando la adopción de estos equipos a cr...

Asia will need as much as $1 trillion annually in energy investment over the next 15 years to meet rising demand and reduce its exposure to supply disruptions, according to a McKinsey report released Thursday. That amounts to $15 trillion through 2040, with the Iran war exposing just how vulnerable the region remains to disruptions in oil and gas shipments through the Strait of Hormuz. McKinsey now expects Asian energy demand to reach 370 million terajoules by 2040, a 15% increase over its forecast from just a year ago. The region is expected to…

Asia will need as much as $1 trillion annually in energy investment over the next 15 years to meet rising demand and reduce its exposure to supply disruptions, according to a McKinsey report released Thursday. That amounts to $15 trillion through 2040, with the Iran war exposing just how vulnerable the region remains to disruptions in oil and gas shipments through the Strait of Hormuz. McKinsey now expects Asian energy demand to reach 370 million terajoules by 2040, a 15% increase over its forecast from just a year ago. The region is expected to…