Global energy giant ExxonMobil reported third-quarter 2025 earnings last week. Those results delivered some eye-popping numbers for all the right reasons. The global energy supermajor announced a solid performance despite softer oil prices and a challenging operating environment. While Exxon’s Permian Basin assets are a key part of the story, Exxon’s Guyana operations are another important driver of this notable performance. Exxon made its first discovery in Guyana’s territorial waters in 2015 with the Liza-1 well in the 6.6-million-acre…

5 de noviembre de 2025.- Latinoamérica llega a la 30ª Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático (COP30) de Belém (Brasil) con el objetivo de reducir las emisiones contaminantes y sumarse a la transición energética pero buscando una voz común que consiga convertir los compromisos m...

The Blue Whale project, a deepwater oil and gas exploration venture in the Ulleung Basin of the East Sea (also known as the Sea of Japan), has emerged as South Korea’s boldest yet also most uncertain bet on energy independence. Being the nation’s potentially first large-scale offshore hydrocarbon prospect, the field is believed to hold between 3.5 and 14 billion barrels of oil and gas – a wave of supply that could, if confirmed, satisfy up to 30 years of natural gas demand and 4 years of oil consumption. For a country that imports…

5 de noviembre de 2025.- El expresidente boliviano Evo Morales acusó al mandatario estadounidense Donald Trump de ejecutar lo que calificó como una nueva versión del Plan Cóndor, en referencia a las operaciones coordinadas de represión política que afectaron a gobiernos de izquierda en la región dur...

Iraq's parliamentary election on November 11 arrives as Tehran's regional hand weakens and the outcome could determine whether it preserves a vital anchor in its sphere of influence, financing, and deterrence or slides into a costlier, fragmented game of managing proxies from afar. With setbacks in Syria and growing constraints on Hezbollah -- designated a terror organization by the United States -- in Lebanon, Iraq has become the indispensable arena for safeguarding Tehran's regional depth, economic access, and deterrence architecture. "The parliamentary…

5 de noviembre de 2025.- A propósito de los 20 años del histórico “Adiós al ALCA”, se llevó a cabo en el Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe Rómulo Gallegos (Celarg), en Caracas, el foro “Lucha contra el ALCA: desafío de los pueblos”. El encuentro reunió a intelectuales, académicos y re...

India’s state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has said it is prepared to restart upstream operations in Syria once “normalcy” returns, according to The National. Executives from ONGC Videsh Ltd, the company’s overseas arm, confirmed they are monitoring developments closely and would move to re-enter the Syrian sector if political stability and security conditions permit. The disclosure marks the first public signal in over a decade that ONGC could resume activities in Syria, where it previously held stakes in…

India’s state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has said it is prepared to restart upstream operations in Syria once “normalcy” returns, according to The National. Executives from ONGC Videsh Ltd, the company’s overseas arm, confirmed they are monitoring developments closely and would move to re-enter the Syrian sector if political stability and security conditions permit. The disclosure marks the first public signal in over a decade that ONGC could resume activities in Syria, where it previously held stakes in…

India’s state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has said it is prepared to restart upstream operations in Syria once “normalcy” returns, according to The National. Executives from ONGC Videsh Ltd, the company’s overseas arm, confirmed they are monitoring developments closely and would move to re-enter the Syrian sector if political stability and security conditions permit. The disclosure marks the first public signal in over a decade that ONGC could resume activities in Syria, where it previously held stakes in…

5 de noviembre de 2025.- Autoridades sanitarias de Cuba iniciaron un ensayo clínico con el medicamento Jusvinza, desarrollado por el Centro de Ingeniería Genética y Biotecnología, para tratar la poliartritis residual en pacientes convalecientes de Chikungunya, precisó el Grupo Biocubafarma desde su ...

Norway has suspended the ethical investment rules governing its $2.1-trillion oil fund just weeks after signaling higher 2026 withdrawals, drawing a direct line between petroleum revenues and fiscal control. The Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) move, as detailed by the Irish Times, is being described as an emergency measure to prevent forced equity sales that could shake global markets. Parliament has approved a temporary freeze on the fund’s Ethics Council, suspending new exclusion recommendations on human-rights and environmental grounds,…

5 de noviembre de 2025.- China anunció la prórroga de la exención de visado hasta el 31 de diciembre de 2026 para ciudadanos de 45 países, entre ellos cinco naciones de América Latina: Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Perú y Uruguay. Según un comunicado, publicado el martes por la Embajada de China en e...

Kazakhstan’s crude output fell 10% in October after maintenance curbed flows at the Chevron-led Tengiz field, according to an industry source cited by a Reuters report. Crude production averaged about 1.69 million barrels per day, while combined crude and condensate totaled 8.016 million metric tons, down from 8.345 million tons in September.  Work at Tengiz ran from early October through October 24 and reduced field output to roughly 725,000 barrels per day from about 964,000 barrels per day in September, the source said. Despite the…

Kazakhstan’s crude output fell 10% in October after maintenance curbed flows at the Chevron-led Tengiz field, according to an industry source cited by a Reuters report. Crude production averaged about 1.69 million barrels per day, while combined crude and condensate totaled 8.016 million metric tons, down from 8.345 million tons in September.  Work at Tengiz ran from early October through October 24 and reduced field output to roughly 725,000 barrels per day from about 964,000 barrels per day in September, the source said. Despite the…

Kazakhstan’s crude output fell 10% in October after maintenance curbed flows at the Chevron-led Tengiz field, according to an industry source cited by a Reuters report. Crude production averaged about 1.69 million barrels per day, while combined crude and condensate totaled 8.016 million metric tons, down from 8.345 million tons in September.  Work at Tengiz ran from early October through October 24 and reduced field output to roughly 725,000 barrels per day from about 964,000 barrels per day in September, the source said. Despite the…

5 de noviembre de 2025.- El Servicio Administrativo de Identificación, Migración y Extranjería (Saime) informó el lanzamiento de su nueva y modernizada página web para una mejor simplificación y digitalización de los servicios que ofrece en línea para ciudadanos venezolanos y extranjeros. El ente...

Natural gas-rich Turkmenistan wants to join a regional green-energy trend. Officials have announced that construction of an energy-efficient power plant on the Caspian shoreline is underway, adding that the facility aims to produce enough electricity to meet domestic needs and export excess power westward. Turkmen Energy Minister Annageldi Saparov, speaking at an economic forum on November 3, revealed that a combined-cycle power plant with a projected annual generating capacity of almost 1.6 gigawatts is in the works at…

Es 5 de noviembre de 2025. Han transcurrido 309 días del año y faltan 56 días para su terminación. Hoy es miércoles. Las efemérides se refieren a sucesos, celebraciones o conmemoraciones significativas para un área del conocimiento, la cultura y las artes, la historia o la ci...

The new government's Climate Competitiveness Strategy, outlined in Budget 2025, will prioritize effective carbon markets, enhanced methane regulations, and technologies such as carbon capture and storage as the primary means to reduce oil and gas emissions.Canada’s federal government is signaling it plans to scrap the previous cabinet’s controversial emissions cap plan, which had put former PM Justin Trudeau on a collision course with the provincial government of oil-producing Alberta.  The former government of Justin Trudeau last…