The oil markets are looking to finish the year on the back foot, with oil prices falling again amid expectations of a supply glut and Russia-Ukraine peace talks reviving. Nearly half of oil executives in the Dallas Fed’s latest survey have reported that their companies’ outlooks have worsened in the current year compared with last year as low oil prices take a toll. “Decreasing oil prices are making many of our firm's wells noneconomic,” one executive said in the new survey. “Natural gas is becoming an expense to operators.…

China has rattled Tehran by again backing the United Arab Emirates’s claim over three Persian Gulf islands controlled by Iran. Following a visit to Abu Dhabi by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, the countries in a joint statement on December 13 highlighted Beijing’s “support for the efforts of the UAE to reach a peaceful solution to the dispute” over the three islands of Greater Tunb, Lesser Tunb, and Abu Musa. Notably, there is no explicit mention of Iran in the statement. In response, Iranian Foreign Ministry…

China’s dominance in the global electric vehicle market looks set to deepen as policy reversals in Europe and strategic pullbacks by U.S. automakers reduce competitive pressure just as Chinese EV makers push aggressively into overseas markets. China’s booming EV market has its own set of issues to address, especially the battery and manufacturing overcapacity denting the profits of the EV makers. However, the race to the bottom and the price wars in China’s electric vehicle market have sunk costs so much that China has a competitive…

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18 de diciembre de 2025.-El presidente de Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, uno de los aliados más cercanos de Trump en América Latina, está intentando hacer retroceder una ola de violencia de los cárteles de la droga en lo que alguna vez fue uno de los países más seguros de América del Sur, informó...

President Trump’s massive naval build-up off the coast of Venezuela and the threat of invasion was labelled by the country’s illegitimate President Nicolas Maduro as a bloody grab for oil. Other Latin American leaders, notably Colombia’s leftist President Gustavo Petro, are making similar assertions. A long history of U.S. intervention to secure vital fossil fuel resources, coupled with Venezuela controlling the world’s largest proven crude oil reserves totaling 303 billion barrels, supports this rationale. There are, however,…

Lithium-ion batteries dominate the tech world. You probably have at least one within reach right this moment, considering that lithium-ion batteries now power a whopping 70 percent of all rechargeable devices, from your smartphone to electric vehicles, and even power utility-scale energy storage. And while the tech industry is eager to diversify battery design to relieve its dependency on this “white gold”, lithium continues to dominate the sector – and will likely remain essential for a long time to come.  While lithium…

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El presidente de Brasil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, expresó su disposición a mediar en el conflicto abierto provocado por Estados Unidos contra Venezuela. "Yo estoy pensando que antes de que llegue la Navidad, yo posiblemente tenga que volver a hablar con el presidente de EE.UU...

Un juez federal de México emitió una nueva orden de arresto contra el empresario Raúl Rocha Cantú, copropietario del certamen Miss Universo, luego de que la Fiscalía General de la República lo declarara prófugo de la justicia y le retirara el acuerdo que le permitía colaborar como testigo en u...

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Es 18 de diciembre de 2025. Han transcurrido 352 días del año y faltan 13 días para su terminación. Hoy es jueves. Las efemérides se refieren a sucesos, celebraciones o conmemoraciones significativas para un área del conocimiento, la cultura y las artes, la historia o la cien...

El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, rebautizó este jueves el Centro Kennedy de Washington, el principal centro de artes escénicas del país, con su apellido, que a partir de ahora pasará a llamarse el Centro Trump-Kennedy. La portavoz de la Casa Blanca, Karoline Leavitt, a...

U.S. natural gas futures have reversed their recent decline, climbing more than 3% on Thursday to trade above $4 per MMBtu thanks to near-record flows of natural gas to LNG export plants. Gas deliveries to the eight major U.S. LNG facilities have averaged 18.6 Bcf/d so far this month, above November’s average at 18.2 Bcf/d. Meanwhile, one of its three liquefaction trains at Freeport LNG’s export terminal in Texas has returned to service, with the terminal increasing its volumes. However, the rebound might be short-lived, with predictions…

U.S. natural gas futures have reversed their recent decline, climbing more than 3% on Thursday to trade above $4 per MMBtu thanks to near-record flows of natural gas to LNG export plants. Gas deliveries to the eight major U.S. LNG facilities have averaged 18.6 Bcf/d so far this month, above November’s average at 18.2 Bcf/d. Meanwhile, one of its three liquefaction trains at Freeport LNG’s export terminal in Texas has returned to service, with the terminal increasing its volumes. However, the rebound might be short-lived, with predictions…

Un análisis del Dr. Eliades Acosta sobre la situación que acontece en Latinoamérica, en especial la zona del Mar Caribe donde el Imperio Estadounidense asedia y acosa con un bloqueo absurdo a Venezuela.        &n...

Texas battery storage operators are pushing back after ERCOT changed how power is priced and dispatched, effectively asking batteries to behave more like power plants while reducing some of the market opportunities that made them profitable in the first place. For years, battery storage has been described as a game-changer for wind and solar and with a very good reason. The biggest problem of both is the fact their output depends on constantly changing weather. Batteries, however, can store whatever excess electricity wind and solar produce and…

The abrupt resignation of Nigeria’s top petroleum regulator shortly after the launch of one of the country’s largest oil block auctions in years has sparked fresh concerns. Gbenga Komolage, head of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, and Farouk Ahmed, head of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, have both resigned. Their exits came after Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man and the owner of the giant Dangote Refinery, criticized Ahmed for allowing cut-price fuel imports that threaten…

Israel's agreement to supply Egypt with 130 billion cubic meters of natural gas worth $35 billion through 2040 has been approved after pressure from Washington, with Egypt emphasizing the deal is "purely commercial," according to Egypt's State Information Service, adding that the deal was struck by private energy companies with zero government involvement. Under the agreement, Chevron Corp. (NYSE:CVX), NewMed Energy (OTCPK:DKDRF)(TASE: NWMD) and Ratio Petroleum Energy (TASE: RTPT) will supply Egypt with natural gas from Israel's Leviathan gas field,…

The bell may be tolling for a long-standing Russian-Kazakh space program following the launch of a “nanosatellite” jointly developed by Kazakhstan and China and launched into orbit by a Chinese rocket. The launch of the Dier-5 spacecraft on December 13 placed the satellite into an orbit roughly 330 miles above Earth, according to a Kazakh government statement. It took a team of specialists from Kazakhstan’s Al-Farabi University and Northeastern Polytechnical University in Xi’an, China, just a little over one year to develop…