Incidente de quema de bandera cerca de la Casa Blanca conduce a arresto horas después de la orden ejecutiva de Trump El hombre arrestado se identificó como un veterano de guerra y dijo que estaba quemando la bandera estadounidense en protesta por una orden ejecutiva que Trump firmó...

The government of Canada’s biggest oil-producing province is in talks with Japanese parties with a view to investing in the latter’s refining industry. The move, according to unnamed sources who spoke to Reuters, should secure a table overseas market for Alberta’s crude. Per the report, this would be the first Alberta government investment in foreign energy infrastructure, potentially marking a new stage in the province’s energy policies and a departure from the historical almost complete reliance on the United States as…

Back in April, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order that, among other things, recognized coal as a critical mineral and opened federal lands to coal mining. Trump ordered the Secretary of Energy to examine the potential for expanding coal-based infrastructure to meet the electricity needs of AI data centers and other high-performance computing operations. Then in May, Trump ordered the massive  JH Campbell coal-fired power plant at the edge of Lake Michigan to be kept open for three months, before extending the deadline until…

The supply and demand model of economists suggests that oil prices might rise to consistently high levels, but this has not happened yet: Figure 1. Average annual Brent equivalent inflation-adjusted crude oil prices, based on data of the 2025 Statistical Review of World Energy, published by the Energy Institute. The last year shown is 2024. In my view, the economists’ model of supply and demand is overly simple; its usefulness is limited to understanding short-term shifts in oil prices. The supply and demand model of economists does…

Martes, 26 de agosto de 2025. Dentro del análisis realizado desde el programa La Base LatAm, con relación al movimiento militar emprendido por los Estados Unidos, amenazando a Venezuela, el invitado del día, Breno Altman luego de algunas consideraciones, expresó que fundamentalmente estamos frente ...

26 de agosto de 2026.-En la emergencia del Hospital Dr. Luis Razetti de Barinas, personal de Cantv realizó labores técnicas e instalación de una antena que brinda el servicio Wi-Fi para Tod@s. Estas acciones permiten a pacientes y familiares conectarse en sus celulares o tabletas a ...

Pakistan is undergoing an energy revolution fuelled by a sharp rise in solar-plus-battery systems. This rapid evolution and decentralization of power grids is helping to shore up the nation’s energy security and meet international decarbonization pledges. However, while the solar boom is helping to keep the lights on for many Pakistanis, it is also hurting the poorest citizens. Pakistan has long struggled with rolling blackouts, power shortages, and crippling energy costs, and – like many emerging economies around the world –…

The American Petroleum Institute (API) estimated that crude oil inventories in the United States fell this week, dropping by 974,000 barrels in the week ending August 15. Analysts had expected a larger 1.7-million-barrel draw. So far this year, crude oil inventories are up 6.8 million barrels, according to Oilprice calculations of API data. Earlier this week, the Department of Energy (DoE) reported that crude oil inventories in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) rose by 800,000 barrels to 404.2 million barrels in the week ending August 22. At…

Martes, 26 de agosto de 2025. En una breve explicación el presidente de la Federación rusa, Vladimir Putin explicó el funcionamiento del misil hipersónico Oriesnik, enumerando algunas de sus características básicas y su enorme poder de choque [yt=jVRw2lqe1ew]...

Martes, 26 de agosto de 2025. Venezuela fortalece la defensa nacional con incorporación de la Milicia. El presidente Nicolás Maduro lideró la incorporación de la milicia nacional bolivariana a los cuadrantes de paz en Caracas. Esta iniciativa busca fortalecer la estabilidad nacional y consol...

Simple answers are easy, but often wrong. The real ones take context, and a little more work. Below I provide the context for the question in the title, if you put in the work to read and understand. I was recently forwarded a link to a story at an NBC affiliate in Montana–’Drill, baby, drill’: Gas prices might drop below $3 by end of 2025–that purports to connect the recent drop in gasoline prices with President Trump’s pro-energy policies.  The first line of the article states: “There has recently been…

Un documento en pro de la defensa patriótica de Venezuela y su soberanía nacional ante las últimas amenazas y la movilización naval de los EE.UU contra el país venezolano, está siendo firmado por ciudadanos de una pluralidad de orientaciones políticas. Quienes lo suscriben invitan a...

26 de agosto de 2025.- El ministro para la Defensa, Vladimir Padrino López, informó que ya inició el despliegue operacional de 15.000 efectivos de la Fuerza Armada Nacional Bolivariana (FANB) en los estados Táchira y Zulia, que comprende 851 km de los 2.219 km de línea fronteriza con Colombia. De...

The Turkish government is moving quickly to capitalize on new economic opportunities created by US President Donald Trump‘s peace plan for Armenia and Azerbaijan.  Turkish officials held a groundbreaking ceremony on August 22 for a new 224-km rail line stretching from the eastern Turkish hub of Kars to Dilucu at the frontier with Azerbaijan’s Nakhchivan exclave. The Kars-Dilucu rail line is envisioned as the largest section of a new transit corridor that is the centerpiece of the Trump peace plan. The new route would be initially…

26 de agosto de 2025.- El Servicio Administrativo de Identificación, Migración y Extranjería (Saime), informa a los ciudadanos que desde el pasado 30 de junio hasta la fecha, se han atendido a más de 280 mil venezolanos y naturalizados en la jornada de verificación de dat...

Russia’s fuel oil shipments went mostly to Saudi Arabia and India in July as Asia and the Middle East remain the key outlets for Moscow’s fuel oil and vacuum gasoil (VGO) amid import bans and embargoes in the West. Russia’s oil products have been banned in the EU and other Western countries since 2023, so Moscow has redirected most of the shipments to Asia and the Middle East. Saudi Arabia, which runs fuel oil in power plants to meet soaring air-conditioning demand in the desert summer, and India, whose refiners run fuel oil as…

26 de agosto de 2025.- Chad es uno de los ejemplos más extremos de pobreza energética, con solo 10 % de la población conectada a la red eléctrica, una tasa de electrificación rural inferior a 2 % y un consumo nacional de electricidad por habitante que apenas alcanza 18 % de la media mundial. Esto di...

Via Metal Miner China’s decision to file a complaint in the World Trade Organization against Canadian tariffs and the steel tariff rate quota has re-focused the spotlight on what many have dubbed an “already-strained trade relationship” between the two countries.  A few years ago, both nations resorted to tit-for-tat measures, including tariffs on everything from canola to electric vehicles. As it has with other countries, China has accused Canada of discriminatory trade practices. The move by China’s Ministry of Commerce…

26 de agosto de 2025.- A un total de 70.84 % se incrementó el turismo internacional al país desde enero hasta julio del presente año, con respecto al mismo período en 2024, como resultado del trabajo mancomunado entre el Gobierno Nacional, el Ministerio del Poder Popular para el Turismo, el sector p...

PetroChina has agreed to buy three natural gas storage facilities from its state-owned parent CNPC for ¥40 billion (US$5.59 billion), adding nearly 11 billion cubic meters of working capacity to its portfolio. It’s a deal that looks less like housekeeping between affiliates and more like a signal of where China’s biggest oil and gas firm sees the energy market heading. The company’s timing is no accident. PetroChina reported first-half 2025 profit of US$11.75 billion, down 5.4% year-on-year as weaker crude prices and slumping…