Winter is over in the northern hemisphere, and demand for heating is in decline, to the likely chagrin of LNG exporters. Demand for the fuel in the key Asian and European markets has weakened this month as peak demand season eases—but the weakening is temporary. Europe imported a record 7.04 million tons of liquefied natural gas from its top supplier, the United States, last month, but this has dropped to 5.88 million tons this month, data from Kpler, cited by Reuters’ Clyde Russell has shown. This is still significantly higher than…

Noble Corp, (NYSE:NE) turned in a pretty solid report for Q-1 this week, and gave a forecast that caused the stock to rally sharply, up 12%, on the news. Over the course of the day, where oil prices had dropped to around $60, it managed to hold onto a good chunk of that gain. Key among the salient points of the release was the announcement of a $2.0-$2.5 bn addition to the company's backlog in the quarter, bringing the total to $7.5 bn on the upside. Anytime you can announce a 30% increase in future contracted revenues, you're doing something right…

Worldwide, governments and private companies are attempting to improve passenger transport in response to growing populations and the need to cut carbon emissions. For several countries, train travel is the best mode of transport for moving people quickly and sustainably from A to B.  The development of electric metro systems has helped cities around the globe provide low-emissions urban commuter transport and reduce the number of cars on the roads, while high-speed, long-distance routes have helped provide an alternative to flying. Greater…

30 de abril de 2025.- Se cumplió el séptimo día consecutivo de protestas contra las reformas a la Caja de Seguro Social (CSS) y en rechazo a los acuerdo con Estados Unidos. Los trabajadores de la construcción y los docentes confirmaron que mantendrán las movilizaciones en las calles y convocaron ...

The global oil industry for much of the 20th century was controlled by a powerful cartel of private companies known as the "Seven Sisters." This group long dominated production, pricing, and access to reserves from the Middle East to Latin America. They shaped markets, dictated terms to host countries and built the foundations of the modern energy system. But the balance of power has since shifted—dramatically.   Today, the center of gravity in global oil lies not with the Western supermajors, but with National Oil Companies (NOC). State-owned…

30 de abril de 2025.- La Justicia boliviana anuló la orden de aprehensión contra el expresidente Evo Morales (2006-2019) por el presunto delito de trata de menores, por supuesta una relación amorosa con una joven en 2016 cuando aún era mandatario, confirmó este miércoles el diputado del Movimiento ...

Via Metal Miner   A striking aspect of the aluminum premium and the aluminum market turmoil currently unfolding after Trump’s aluminum tariffs is how differently it’s playing out in the U.S. versus other regions. While premiums inside of the U.S. are rising, outside the United States, aluminum premiums are actually falling. With U.S. tariffs shutting out or discouraging some imports, those metal volumes are being redirected elsewhere, leading to relative oversupply abroad.  In Europe, for instance, the going premium for aluminum…

30 de abril de 2025.- Una comisión del Cicpc-Anaco (Anzoátegui) capturó a Winder Enrique Terasa Figueroa (30) y Jhonaiker José Aular Amaro (27), por cuanto se dedicaban a crear perfiles falsos en Instagram para estafar, informó la policía científica. Mediante denuncias interpuestas por las víctim...

US benchmark WTI crude is down nearly 4% as Saudi Arabia reports emerge that not only can the Saudis sustain today’s low oil prices, but output increases are likely to be announced next week, for June output, sources speaking to both Reuters and Bloomberg have indicated.  On Wednesday, Reuters cited five unnamed sources as saying that the Saudis have no intention of boosting oil markets with further supply cuts, as Riyadh’s budget can tolerate sustained low prices. On the contrary, sources are suggesting that the Saudis could start…

US benchmark WTI crude is down nearly 4% as Saudi Arabia reports emerge that not only can the Saudis sustain today’s low oil prices, but output increases are likely to be announced next week, for June output, sources speaking to both Reuters and Bloomberg have indicated.  On Wednesday, Reuters cited five unnamed sources as saying that the Saudis have no intention of boosting oil markets with further supply cuts, as Riyadh’s budget can tolerate sustained low prices. On the contrary, sources are suggesting that the Saudis could start…

If energy secretary Ed Miliband still believes that critics of his dash to Net Zero are peddlers of “nonsense and lies” he has a new name to add to his list of dangerous misinformation merchants: Tony Blair. I do appreciate that some people believe that his name belongs on exactly that kind of list, but I’ll leave that to one side and focus instead on the latest contribution of his eponymous institute, which has released a new report called The Climate Paradox. The former Prime Minister has penned a foreword in which he notes…

Enfrentamientos estallaron en un suburbio de la capital siria el martes temprano entre hombres armados locales pertenecientes a la minoría drusa y combatientes progubernamentales, dejando al menos 10 personas muertas, informaron un observatorio de guerra y un grupo de activistas. Lo...

30 de abril de 2025.- Los astronautas de la misión Shenzhou-19 regresaron hoy a la Tierra y salieron de la cápsula de manera segura tras completar con éxito seis meses en el espacio. De acuerdo fuentes oficiales, Cai Xuzhe marcó un hito al convertirse en el astronauta chino co...

El estudiante palestino de la Universidad de Columbia (Nueva York, EE.UU.) Mohsen Mahdawi, detenido el 14 de abril por su participación en las protestas universitarias contra la guerra de Gaza, fue finalmente puesto hoy en libertad. Un juez de Vermont ordenó la puesta en libertad de...

Raindrops could hold the key to next generation renewable energy. Scientists in Singapore recently managed to generate electricity from rain-like water droplets with a surprisingly promising amount of efficiency. If this scientific breakthrough proves to be scalable and, eventually, commercially viable, this could have major implications for the global decarbonization movement, and could provide a new form of residential clean energy production. In a revolutionary first, a team of researchers from the National University of Singapore generated…

30 de abril de 2025.- El Consejo Nacional Electoral designó un grupo de fiscales nacionales para inspeccionar todo lo relacionado con la contienda electoral, dado que este 29 de abril arrancó la campaña de los candidatos para las elecciones del 25 de mayo. La información la dio a conocer el recto...

The United States and Ukraine are set to finalize a landmark critical minerals agreement as early as Thursday, in a move that could reshape the geopolitical landscape of critical raw materials, but questions remain as to exactly how each party will benefit, and what Russia’s response will be.  Early on Wednesday, an Ukrainian government source told Reuters that Ukraine was ready to sign a mineral resources deal with the U.S., and that Ukrainian First Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko was en route to Washington for that express purpose.Later…

30 de abril de 2025.- La entrevistada es Denis Ospino, una extrabajadora de Pdvsa que actualmente se encuentra jubilada. Ella participó junto a un grupo de mujeres de diversas comunidades en la defensa de la industria para contrarrestar el sabotaje petrolero orquestado por la élite meritocrática de ...

As if China’s solar panels and equipment companies haven’t already been reeling from low product prices and overcapacity, the U.S.-China trade war and the triple-digit tariffs are adding insult to injury to the profitability of the Chinese solar manufacturing industry. All top Chinese solar equipment producers booked losses for the first quarter of the year, and blamed the continued losses on low product prices and the trade and tariff turbulence with the new U.S. President Donald Trump. JinkoSolar, for example, booked a net loss of…

30 de abril de 2025.- Este miércoles, en la ciudad española de Valencia, Edmundo González Urrutia, solicitó el respaldo del Partido Popular Europeo (PPE) para que Venezuela recupere su libertad y democracia. Afirmó que este objetivo está «cada vez más cerca» y destacó que los probl...