Oil tanker rates are soaring this year, picking up where they left off 2025—multi-year highs amid growing supply, longer routes, and disruptions due to sanctions and altered shipping lanes.    At the end of 2025, the global supertanker market tightened as crude supply from the OPEC+ group and the Americas rose, and vessels were making increasingly longer trips. So much the market tightened that several new-built very large crude carriers (VLCC) made empty maiden voyages from yards in Asia to pick up supply from producing countries…

El despliegue de la tecnología sónica y electromagnética en Venezuela ha provocado un terremoto en la industria de defensa de Rusia y China. Los principales fabricantes de armamento de estas potencias han convocado a reuniones de emergencia para analizar cómo sistemas de radar y defensa antiaé...

Caracas 27 de enero de 2026.- El vicepresidente nacional de profesionales y técnicos del partido Podemos, Rosalio Torrealba Torrealba, fijó este martes una posición contundente con respecto a la reforma parcial de la Ley Orgánica de Hidrocarbu...

The world’s oil production is running flat out, with consumption far outstripping new discoveries. According to Norwegian energy consultancy Rystad Energy, annual conventional discovered volumes averaged more than 20 billion barrels of oil equivalent (boe) per year in the early 2010s; however, they have averaged to slightly over 8 billion boe per year since 2020. Indeed, global oil discoveries have fallen sharply over the past decade. According to Rystad Energy, annual conventional discovered volumes averaged more than 20 billion barrels…

27 de enero de 2026.-Cerca de 1.000 hogares, comercios e instituciones públicas de Valencia, estado Carabobo, disfrutan de las bondades de conectividad que brinda Cantv a través de los servicios Aba Ultra, 100 % fibra óptica; Aba TV GO y Telefonía IP, informó Comunicaciones Externas. ...

The start of full drilling operations just over a week ago at Iraq’s Akkas gas field -- led by U.S. oilfield services giant Schlumberger along with the state?owned Midland Oil -- could signal far more than an overdue upstream milestone. Given the enormous strategic importance of the field in its geographic location, role in domestic power generation, and as a benchmark in the roll?out of similar projects across the country, it may indicate growing momentum in Iraq’s shift towards the U.S. sphere of influence and away from that of China,…

Editors note: The API data in this article does not fully reflect Winter Storm Fern’s impact on oil markets.The American Petroleum Institute (API) estimated that crude oil inventories in the United States decreased by 247,000 barrels in the week ending January 23. Crude oil inventories increased by 3.04 million barrels in the week prior. Inventories in the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) keep climbing week after week. The Department of Energy (DoE) reported that crude oil inventories in the SPR rose by 500,000 barrels to 415 million…

Caracas, 27 de enero de 2026.– Con el propósito de enaltecer las tradiciones de El Callao, la ministra de Turismo, Leticia Gómez, sostuvo un encuentro con la Gobernadora de Bolívar Yulisbeth García, para coordinar la agenda de los próximos Carnavales Turísticos "Por Amor a Bolívar 2026". Bajo ...

Iran’s oil industry has been under sanctions since Donald Trump’s first term. Since then, Iran has seen its pool of buyers shrink to leave only China—but China has been a big enough buyer to not only keep Iran’s oil industry afloat, but help it grow, at least in terms of production. In terms of revenues, perhaps not so much. One big reason why Iran was able to boost its crude oil production to levels from before the first Trump administration began imposing sanctions on it, was China. China’s insatiable appetite for…

27 de enero de 2026.- Los familiares de dos hombres que murieron durante el ataque con misiles de Estados Unidos contra una ‌presunta narcolancha cerca de Venezuela presentaron este martes una demanda por homicidio culposo, al alegar que fueron asesinados en una campaña militar "manifiestamente ileg...

The recent negotiations in Brussels over the European Union’s decarbonization goals have triggered a familiar pattern of commentary: “Europe has watered down its climate ambitions. Full decarbonization by 2050 is slipping away.” Headlines like that play well to an audience already weary of policy drama. But they miss a crucial point: what has changed is not the end goal, but the path to get there. And that shift, far from representing defeat, may be the most strategically astute approach Europe has yet adopted. What opponents…

27 de enero de 2026.- El portavoz del secretario general de Naciones Unidas, Stéphane Dujarric, declaró el lunes que Cisjordania registró durante 2025 más de 37.000 palestinos desplazados, alcanzando niveles récord de desplazamiento y violencia de colonos. Durante una conferencia de prensa, el fu...

Oil prices jumped on Tuesday as the market priced in fundamentals once again, showing that when U.S. infrastructure gets punched in the face by weather, it’s more than geopolitics and vague supply forecasts that move the needle. Brent was trading around $66.90 a barrel on Tuesday late morning, up about $1.30 on the day. At the time, WTI neared $61.90. By afternoon, the gains continued, with Brent passing $67 and WTI nearing $62. The continued rise means it could be more than just a recovery from an earlier dip. It may be recalculating near-term…

Oil prices jumped on Tuesday as the market priced in fundamentals once again, showing that when U.S. infrastructure gets punched in the face by weather, it’s more than geopolitics and vague supply forecasts that move the needle. Brent was trading around $66.90 a barrel on Tuesday late morning, up about $1.30 on the day. At the time, WTI neared $61.90. By afternoon, the gains continued, with Brent passing $67 and WTI nearing $62. The continued rise means it could be more than just a recovery from an earlier dip. It may be recalculating near-term…

Waymo is stepping up preparations for its UK rollout after its driverless vehicles were spotted on the streets of London, as the Alphabet-owned firm faces safety scrutiny in the US. The self-driving vehicle firm has confirmed it is testing its robotaxis in the capital ahead of a planned passenger launch this year, marking its second international market after Japan. This move comes as Waymo expands its paid, fully driverless ride-hailing service in the US, most recently launching in Miami. The Miami rollout makes Waymo the first operator to run…

Russian crude is piling up at sea as India’s refiners step back from purchases, leaving Moscow with millions of barrels on tankers and fewer clear outlets for its oil exports. Russia shipped an average of 3.18 million barrels per day of crude in the four weeks to January 25, according to vessel-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg. That volume was little changed from the prior week but down by about 680,000 bpd from the pre-Christmas peak and the lowest level since August. The bigger issue is not how much Russia is shipping, but where those…

27 de enero de 2026.- La presidenta de México, Claudia Sheinbaum, ratificó que el envío de petróleo a Cuba es una decisión soberana del Estado mexicano, orientada a mitigar los efectos del bloqueo económico impuesto por Estados Unidos. La mandataria señaló que la determinación sobre los tiempos y...

In a mere five years, Guyana went from its first major petroleum discovery to first oil. The former British colony is now pumping around 900,000 barrels per day, making it South America’s third-largest oil producer. Washington’s decision to intervene in Venezuela, snatching President Nicolas Maduro during a daring night raid, removed the only major threat to that world-class oil boom. You see, Maduro was threatening to annex the mineral-rich Essequibo, a region which not only makes up two-thirds of Guyana’s territory but contains…

27 de enero de 2026.- En aras de fortalecer la política comunicacional y las narrativas estratégicas de la nación, la presidenta encargada de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez Gómez, designó a los comunicadores sociales Johan Briceño Bermúdez, Gustavo Villapol Ríos y Alberto Alv...

Offers of Venezuelan crude to India are limited, and in small volumes, as most of the oil under U.S. control is heading to the United States, Indian refining executives told Reuters. Since the U.S. took control of Venezuela’s oil sales and authorized two of the world’s biggest independent traders, Vitol and Trafigura, to market the crude, Indian refiners have vied for crude from Venezuela as they seek to diversify the large exposure to Russian crude they had amassed over the past three and a half years. Indian Oil Corporation, Hindustan…