8 de enero de 2026.-Marco Rubio, secretario de Estado, enumeró las exigencias de la administración Trump a la nueva líder de Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, en una reunión clasificada celebrada el lunes con altos líderes del Congreso. Los funcionarios estadounidenses, que solicitaron el anonimato ...

Earlier in the week, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Venezuela’s interim authorities will be turning over up to 50 million barrels of oil to the United States, before later declaring his administration will control Venezuela's oil sales 'indefinitely'. Trump has decried the state of Venezuela’s oil sector, noting that the country is producing well below its full potential. “They were pumping almost nothing by comparison to what they could have been pumping and what could have taken place,” Trump said. “We’re…

A dip in tanker rates has improved the price outlook for U.S. crude this month, as it signals stronger demand. However, the relief may not last too long as most tanker market forecasts for the year still see rates much higher than they were in 2025. “The shipping markets are freeing up, and rates are tanking from the US to Asia, and the UK to Asia,” one analyst from financial services provider TP ICAP told Bloomberg this week, adding that the trend was boosting demand for U.S. crude oil. As a result, local U.S. benchmark prices have…

CIUDAD DE MÉXICO, 7 de enero - La presidenta mexicana, Claudia Sheinbaum, afirmó el miércoles que México no está enviando más petróleo a Cuba que históricamente, pero que, en medio de los recientes acontecimientos en Venezuela, México se ha convertido en un "importante proveedor" de ...

Big Tech firms are requesting hundreds of gigawatts of power demand from data centers to connect to the U.S. grids. But aging grid infrastructure in key regional markets and grid investments lagging behind the soaring demand are forcing grid operators to offer some alternative options to the hyperscalers looking to hook up their proposed data centers to the grids.      One is “bring your own generation”—a trend that’s expected to rise in the coming years. In many areas, grid operators are telling Big…

Caracas, 8 de enero de 2026).– La ministra del Poder Popular para el Turismo, Leticia Gómez, dirigió este miércoles 8 de enero...

New York City’s government has achieved a remarkable drop in greenhouse gas emissions. A new report shows that the city’s municipal operators are using less energy and emitting less carbon than they were twenty years ago. In fact, while greenhouse gas emissions around the world continue to climb, New York’s governmental emissions have dropped a stunning 31 percent since 2006, reaching their lowest level in decades. This remarkable achievement comes thanks to several different policy approaches to making New York City greener and…

In 2025, the Middle East solidified its role as the primary stabilizing force in a fragmented global energy system. While international markets faced geopolitical dislocation and divergent transition pathways, the leading Middle Eastern national oil companies (NOCs) adopted a consistent strategy of sustaining hydrocarbon primacy while systematically reducing costs and carbon intensity. More than $100 billion in upstream capital deployment enabled the NOCs to expand crude spare capacity and accelerate gas development, while selective international…

8 de enero de 2026.- Luego de que el Gobierno de Bolivia y la Central Obrera Boliviana (COB) declararan un cuarto intermedio en las negociaciones iniciada el miércoles, se incrementan las medidas de fuerzas en todo el país en rechazo del Decreto Supremo 5503 que, entre otras implicaciones, una quita...

Data center load accounted for $6.5 billion, or 40%, of the $16.4 billion in costs from the PJM Interconnection’s December capacity auction, according to the grid operator’s independent market monitor. About $6.2 billion of those costs is related to data centers that haven’t been built but could come online by PJM’s 2027/28 delivery year that begins on June 1, 2027, Monitoring Analytics, the market monitor, said in a report released Monday. In PJM’s last three base capacity auctions, costs related to data center…

8 de enero de 2026.- Tras un periodo de interrupción logística, se ha logrado normalizar el flujo de retorno a Cuba de los profesionales de la salud que prestan servicios en la República Bolivariana de Venezuela, informó el Ministerio de Salud. Durante los últimos meses de 2025, el proceso regula...

India’s largest refiner is signaling it may be ready to reopen a door it closed less than a year ago — if Washington lets it. Reliance Industries said Thursday it would consider buying Venezuelan crude again if sales are permitted to non-U.S. buyers, showing just how quickly global oil trade patterns are being reshuffled after the United States moved to allow limited Venezuelan exports following the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro. Reliance, which operates the world’s largest refining complex, stopped taking Venezuelan…

India’s largest refiner is signaling it may be ready to reopen a door it closed less than a year ago — if Washington lets it. Reliance Industries said Thursday it would consider buying Venezuelan crude again if sales are permitted to non-U.S. buyers, showing just how quickly global oil trade patterns are being reshuffled after the United States moved to allow limited Venezuelan exports following the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro. Reliance, which operates the world’s largest refining complex, stopped taking Venezuelan…

8 de enero de 2026.- En Francia, los agricultores entraron el jueves 8 de enero en París con sus tractores, llegando hasta la Torre Eiffel y el Arco del Triunfo. Alrededor de una veintena de ellos llegaron entre las 3 y las 4 de la madrugada a las inmediaciones del monumento más visitado de Francia,...

The online debate continues to rage over the merits and demerits of the U.S.’s audacious capture of Nicolás Maduro. Narratives around international law and geopolitical ramifications are relevant, but Venezuela’s oil potential now dominates. I have written that the ‘war for oil’ narrative is a mirage. Just as there are many competing interests in the Trump administration, there are myriad motives for Maduro’s removal – be they fair or foul. While Venezuela’s proven reserves are formidable, the expert…

U.S. President Donald Trump has invited heads of commodity trading firms, Vitol and Trafigura, to the White House for talks on Friday regarding the marketing of Venezuelan oil,  Reuters has reported.  Whereas the Trump administration has tapped U.S. oil majors to play a leading role in extracting and selling crude from Venezuela, the giant European firms are some of the largest oil traders in the world, and undoubtedly have the requisite expertise to market oil from Venezuela. Vitol delivered an average of 7.2 million barrels per day…

U.S. President Donald Trump has invited heads of commodity trading firms, Vitol and Trafigura, to the White House for talks on Friday regarding the marketing of Venezuelan oil,  Reuters has reported.  Whereas the Trump administration has tapped U.S. oil majors to play a leading role in extracting and selling crude from Venezuela, the giant European firms are some of the largest oil traders in the world, and undoubtedly have the requisite expertise to market oil from Venezuela. Vitol delivered an average of 7.2 million barrels per day…

8 de enero de 2026.- Manifestantes que protestaban por la muerte de una mujer a manos de un agente de inmigración en Minneapolis, ciudad del medio oeste de Estados Unidos, se enfrentaron este jueves con las fuerzas del orden, en medio de la creciente indignación por el tiroteo. Al menos un manif...

Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev is pushing for the creation of a Turkic trade corridor that connects Central Asia’s resource riches to Western markets. In Aliyev’s view, Turkic states should work in 2026 not only to increase coordination on connectivity and trade but also start building a robust defense and security component. Aliyev outlined his vision during an expansive news conference on January 5, where he designated the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) as the corridor’s foundation.…

Bobi Wine, a pop star-turned-politician and an opposition candidate in Uganda’s presidential election next week, will review all oil contracts the country has with international oil firms and revise any deals that aren’t favorable for Ugandans. “We shall study all agreements,” Wine told Reuters in an interview published on Thursday, a week before Uganda – an aspiring oil-producing nation – holds presidential elections on January 15. “And any part in those agreements that does not favour Ugandans will definitely…