Oil prices pulled back sharply for the second day running on Tuesday after U.S. President Trump signaled that the Middle East war is nearing a conclusion, easing fears of prolonged supply disruption, especially at the Strait of Hormuz–even if Iran doesn’t seem to agree and statements coming out of the White House are infused with contradictions. The potential de-escalation effectively reduces the "geopolitical risk premium" that had previously driven prices towards $120 a barrel. Brent crude for April delivery dropped over 10% on Tuesday…

Principales acontecimientos que seguimos: 10 de marzo de 2026.-El secretario de Defensa de Estados ., Pete Hegseth, declaró el martes por la mañana que "hoy será, una vez más, nuestro día más intenso de ataques contra Irán". En la misma rueda de prensa del Pentágono, el je...

Earlier this year, U.S. forces snatched Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro from Caracas, and the Trump administration stepped in to take over the country’s oil industry. Many appear to have expected the same with Iran, sooner or later, but for now, it seems President Trump is in no hurry to plan an oil seizure—likely because Iran is a very different story from Venezuela. “You look at Venezuela,” the U.S. president told NBC News. “People have thought about it, but it’s too soon to talk about that.” The rather…

La arquitectura de la Inteligencia Artificial global ha dado un giro definitivo hacia la esfera militar. Según reportes de The New York Times y Reuters, OpenAI (creadora de ChatGPT) oficializó este marzo un contrato con el Departamento de Defensa de EE. UU. para desplegar sus modelos en redes ...

La empresa estadounidense de servicios aeroespaciales Planet Labs PBC oficializó este martes, 10 de marzo de 2026, una actualización en sus protocolos de difusión de datos geoespaciales para la región del Mediterráneo Oriental. La medida establece un diferimiento obligatorio de 14 días en la p...

10 de marzo de 2026.-El vicepresidente Sectorial de Política, Seguridad Ciudadana y Paz, capitán Diosdado Cabello Rondón, informó este martes, que el asesinato del comunicador Walter Jaimes, ocurrido el pasado 1° de marzo en el sector El Anís del municipio Sucre, estado Mérida, ha sido policia...

Saudi Arabia was regarded for decades as the ‘global swing oil producer’, able to quickly decrease or increase its oil flows to respectively raise or lower world oil prices. Riyadh has long perpetuated this idea, with grandiose claims about the Kingdom’s crude oil reserves and resultant spare capacity. After two of its key oil installations were hit by rockets from the Iran-backed Houthis back in 2019, it also highlighted that its capacity to recover from such shocks was also extremely quick. So, with the world facing continued…

The American Petroleum Institute (API) estimated that crude oil inventories in the United States fell by 1.7 million barrels in the week ending March 6, after adding 5.6 million barrels in the week prior. Analysts had expected a build of 1.4 million barrels. Inventories in the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) have stayed at 415.4 million barrels for multiple weeks in a row as of the week ending March 6. This is 310.1 million barrels shy of maximum capacity. US production fell again, by 6,000 bpd, sinking to an average of 13.696 million bpd…

In China’s new five-year plan, released Thursday, the world’s second-largest economy declared its aim to “lead global climate governance.” However, the targets laid out in the nation’s 15th five-year plan mark a cautious turn in China’s approach to energy strategy, reflecting the global cool-off on climate-related policy and a general sense of unease in energy markets. China is set to continue full-speed ahead in its renewable energy additions, but is fundamentally changing the way that it tracks progress on…

El Gobierno de Venezuela avanza en su hoja de ruta para establecer alianzas internacionales con el objetivo de fortalecer su producción petrolera y crecer en el sector petroquímico, informó la estatal Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA). En una publicación en Telegram, indicó que la pres...

Oil prices are notoriously difficult to forecast. The market has a long history of humbling anyone who speaks with too much certainty. There are just too many complex variables involved. At the end of 2025, the prevailing narrative was that a surplus of oil was in store for 2026. Several major banks and forecasting agencies expected global supply to exceed demand by multiple millions of barrels per day. Some projections—including those from JPMorgan Chase—anticipated Brent crude drifting into the $60 range by mid-2026. How quickly things…

Iran has begun laying naval mines in the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz, according to two people familiar with U.S. intelligence reporting, in what analysts warn could extend the effective blockade of the world’s most critical energy chokepoint and deepen disruption to global oil flows. The mining activity — currently limited to a few dozen mines laid in recent days — represents an escalation in Iran’s campaign to assert control over the narrow waterway, sources said. Tehran still possesses roughly 80%–90% of…

Iran has begun laying naval mines in the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz, according to two people familiar with U.S. intelligence reporting, in what analysts warn could extend the effective blockade of the world’s most critical energy chokepoint and deepen disruption to global oil flows. The mining activity — currently limited to a few dozen mines laid in recent days — represents an escalation in Iran’s campaign to assert control over the narrow waterway, sources said. Tehran still possesses roughly 80%–90% of…

Renewable sources of power generation, such as solar, wind, and batteries, are displacing fossil fired power generation. The reason? Price. They produce power more cheaply. This is also a little more complicated because this is also a technology transition away from fossil fuels, and its assimilation rate throughout the economy is accelerating. But when competing businesses, which produce the identical commodity,  such as electricity, begin to diverge radically in terms of their underlying cost structures, winners and losers emerge. One of…

La Habana, 10 mar (Prensa Latina) El titular de Relaciones Exteriores de Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez, realizó hoy un llamado a la defensa firme del derecho de los pueblos a la libre determinación. Igualmente instó a respetar la elección a un sistema político, económico y cultural sin inje...

El ministro del Poder Popular para las Comunas y Movimientos Sociales, Ángel Prado, informó que las Salas de Autogobierno Comunal se han consolidado como el espacio fundamental de encuentro y organización popular en el territorio nacional, estando presentes en las 5.336 comunas y circuitos com...

El canciller iraní, Seyed Abbas Araghchi, declaró que no cree que volver a las negociaciones con la parte de EEUU vaya a estar sobre la mesa, debido a la experiencia

Global energy leaders are gathering to decide whether to release emergency oil reserves as production and export disruptions tied to the Middle East conflict continue to strain global markets. The International Energy Agency hosted G7 energy ministers at its Paris headquarters on Tuesday, where Executive Director Fatih Birol warned that conditions in oil markets have deteriorated in recent days. Shipments through the Strait of Hormuz have been disrupted, forcing some producers in the region to curtail output, creating what the agency described…

Global energy leaders are gathering to decide whether to release emergency oil reserves as production and export disruptions tied to the Middle East conflict continue to strain global markets. The International Energy Agency hosted G7 energy ministers at its Paris headquarters on Tuesday, where Executive Director Fatih Birol warned that conditions in oil markets have deteriorated in recent days. Shipments through the Strait of Hormuz have been disrupted, forcing some producers in the region to curtail output, creating what the agency described…

The escalation of conflict in the Middle East is a stress test for the region’s carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) projects and how bankable they remain when hydrocarbon operations are disrupted. Because most CCUS projects are linked to oil and gas value chains, the regional pipeline is being repriced as higher risk. Our base case of 20 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa) of capture capacity by 2030 now looks unlikely; we expect delays as priorities shift and capital is reallocated, leaving the region tracking closer to our low case…