The American Petroleum Institute (API) estimated that crude oil inventories in the United States rose by 3.296 million barrels in the week ending July 24. In the week prior, US crude oil inventories grew by 2.603 million barrels. Commercial crude oil inventories excluding the SPR have lost just over 54 million barrels over the last fifteen weeks, with US crude inventories down just 3 million for the year, according to API data, kept in check by draws from the SPR. For the week ending July 24, another 3.7 million barrels left the SPR, bringing the…

The American Petroleum Institute (API) estimated that crude oil inventories in the United States rose by 3.296 million barrels in the week ending July 24. In the week prior, US crude oil inventories grew by 2.603 million barrels. Commercial crude oil inventories excluding the SPR have lost just over 54 million barrels over the last fifteen weeks, with US crude inventories down just 3 million for the year, according to API data, kept in check by draws from the SPR. For the week ending July 24, another 3.7 million barrels left the SPR, bringing the…

28 de julio de 2026.- El ministro de Obras Públicas, Juan Ramírez Luces, informó que hasta el momento han removido cerca de un 12,3% de los escombros que dejó el doble terremoto en La Guiara. Durante el despliegue del «Plan de Despeje Digno y Seguro» que se llevó a cabo la madrugada de este marte...

28 de julio de 2026.- El secretario general de la Organización de Naciones Unidas (ONU), António Guterres, llamó hoy a la comunidad internacional a brindar apoyo «masivo» a Siria y exigió a Israel cesar sus violaciones y dejar en paz al país árabe. En una entrevista concedida al canal estatal sir...

28 de julio de 2026.- La Comisión Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (Conatel) informó que la embarcación Wave Sentinel ha finalizado las labores de reparación del cable submarino Cirion, restituyendo las capacidades de conectividad del país en su totalidad, refiere nota de prensa del ente en su portal ...

Solar power is far and away the cheapest form of new energy to install in nearly every context around the world. Even in the United States, where the cost of solar additions has jumped up 18 percent since Trump’s tariffs took hold, solar remains the most affordable option for energy capacity expansion. It stands to reason that solar is therefore the fastest growing form of energy in the world, However, as the solar sector has gone gangbusters, profitability has been squeezed thanks to an increasingly competitive market. Developing more advanced…

28 de julio de 2026.- La toma de posesión se desarrolló en medio de denuncias de fraude formuladas por el excandidato Roberto Sánchez tras un cuestionado proceso electoral resuelto por un estrecho margen de apenas 40.000 votos. Pese al rechazo popular en las calles y la profunda desconfianza haci...

28 de julio de 2026.- Frente a la devastadora tragedia sísmica que ha enlutado a nuestro país y afectado profundamente a las comunidades de La Guaira y El Junquito, urge trascender la planificación burocrática convencional. En el marco de la convocatoria al Concurso Nacional para la elaboració...

28 de julio de 2026.- Los esfuerzos para contrarrestar la reaparición del VIH y eliminar al sida como amenaza para la salud pública hacia el año 2030 están en peligro, a menos que se restablezca la solidaridad y se aborden las desigualdades, advirtió este lunes 27 un reporte de Onusida. “Aunque l...

El sector de supermercados en Venezuela sigue en crecimiento. De acuerdo con las proyecciones de la Asociación Nacional de Supermercados y Autoservicios (ANSA) para este año 2026 se prevé la apertura de 50 mil de estos establecimientos. En el marco de este crecimiento del ...

President Donald Trump revealed on Monday that sales of Venezuela’s oil by his administration have generated more than $13 billion since the capture of former President Nicolás Maduro on January 3, claiming that the revenue has effectively “paid for that war many times over”.  Speaking to reporters on Air Force One, Trump was responding to a Financial Times’ report that came out a week ago that estimated that roughly $13 billion in Venezuelan oil revenue is held in frozen U.S. Treasury accounts as a black box…

OPEC+ is preparing to approve one more production increase for September and then put the monthly quota parade on hold through the end of the year. Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iraq, Kuwait, Algeria, Kazakhstan, and Oman are expected to raise their combined September target by about 188,000 barrels per day when they meet on August 2, sources told Reuters. That would match the increases announced for June, July, and August and complete the return of a 1.65-million-bpd voluntary cut agreed in 2023, adjusted for the UAE’s departure from OPEC in May.…

La Fundación de Edificaciones y Dotaciones Educativas (Fede) informó que ha inspeccionado 428 instituciones educativas en todo el país como parte del despliegue técnico para evaluar los planteles que reportaron afectaciones tras el doblete sísmico del pasado 24 de junio. En ese sent...

Martes, 28 de julio de 2026.- Irán esconde algunos de los lugares más extremos, antiguos y visualmente imposibles del planeta, y casi nadie lo sabe. En este video recorremos el desierto de Lut, donde la NASA registró la temperatura más alta jamás medida en la superficie terrestre: 70.7°C. Explo...

Saudi Aramco shut its 400,000-barrel-per-day Jazan refinery on July 27 after a Houthi attack damaged the facility, according to an IIR note seen by Reuters. IIR said the strike damaged the refinery’s Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle complex and tank farm. Repairs are tentatively expected to be completed by August 15. Tentatively is doing some fairly heroic work there. The attack took place Saturday, and video verified by Reuters showed a large plume of smoke rising from the refinery. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said the group…

Uzbekistan appears to be hedging its bets when it comes to Afghanistan’s ability to serve as a trade corridor. Over the past year, Tashkent has ramped up its engagement with Afghanistan, setting an ambitious target of almost tripling annual bilateral trade volume over the next few years. Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev also recently stated that the government was “actively working” with the Taliban leadership to create a trans-Afghan rail route to speed the flow of Uzbek goods to Pakistani seaports. But according…

Saudi Aramco shut its 400,000-barrel-per-day Jazan refinery on July 27 after a Houthi attack damaged the facility, according to an IIR note seen by Reuters. IIR said the strike damaged the refinery’s Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle complex and tank farm. Repairs are tentatively expected to be completed by August 15. Tentatively is doing some fairly heroic work there. The attack took place Saturday, and video verified by Reuters showed a large plume of smoke rising from the refinery. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said the group…

At the beginning of Donald Trump’s first term as U.S. President in 2017, a senior White House official commented off-the-record to OilPrice.com that: “We’re not going to put up with any more crap from the Saudis.” The comment had followed the end of the 2014-2016 Oil Price War that had seen the Kingdom rally its fellow OPEC members to ramp up their collective oil production in order to crash oil prices to cause the bankruptcy of as many American shale oil producers as possible, as analysed in depth in my latest book…

Una persona murió y más de un centenar resultaron heridas tras un fuerte terremoto de magnitud 7,1 en el suroeste de Japón, que provocó el colapso de varios edificios, entre ellos en un centro comercial donde se teme que "muchas personas" estén atrapadas. Según la cadena de televisi...

Investment in defence tech start-ups has reached a record high this year as the world’s biggest arms companies step up spending on new military technology. New figures from Dealroom show defence contractors including BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin and Airbus have participated in $4.1bn (£3bn) of venture capital funding rounds so far this year, the highest figure on record. Meanwhile, separate research from White & Case found 42 defence mergers and acquisitions were completed globally in the first half of 2026, up 56 per cent from…