OPEC+ looks set to stay the course at Monday’s Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee meeting, with four anonymous delegates telling Reuters the group is unlikely to tinker with its output policy. A fifth source said it was too early to say. The plan on the table remains: raise production by 548,000 barrels per day in August—part of a previously announced unwinding of 2.2 million bpd in voluntary cuts by eight members. At face value, it’s a logical move to regain market share while summer demand props up prices. But before anyone…

The Bureau of Land Management is preparing to auction off oil and gas leases in Louisiana, Michigan, and Mississippi this September—marking yet another step in the Trump administration’s accelerated push to revive U.S. energy dominance. Announced Friday, the BLM will offer five parcels totaling 2,090 acres for lease on September 23. The lands, which span three states not typically at the center of federal lease activity, are being positioned as part of a broader “all-of-the-above” strategy to unlock domestic energy—even…

25 de julio de 2025.- El Observatorio Astronómico Nacional (OAN) reanudó la atención al público a partir de este jueves, informó la Fundación Centro de Investigaciones de Astronomía Francisco J Duarte, en su Instagram. Destacó que el OAN reinició sus actividades de jueves a sábados, entre las 3 d...

Es 25 de julio de 2025. Han transcurrido 206 días del año y faltan 159 días para su terminación. Hoy es viernes. Las efemérides se refieren a sucesos, celebraciones o conmemoraciones significativas para un área del conocimiento, la cultura y las artes, la historia o la cienci...

Oil traded slightly lower on Friday as traders weighed trade talk optimism and the potential of more oil supply from Venezuela.Friday, July 25th, 2025 ICE Brent futures remained rangebound as market participants weighed the impact of Venezuela’s potential return to the US markets, happening against the background of global macroeconomic worries subsiding a little, on the back of a US-Japan trade deal lauded by Donald Trump. OPEC+ could project another bullish narrative when its ministerial committee meets this Monday, making…

Viernes, 25 de julio de 2025. Trump no aguantó la burla y ahora va contra los mismos medios que antes lo protegían. South Park lanzó un episodio que lo muestra semidesnudo, en la cama con una figura muy conocida del inframundo, justo después de que Paramount firmara un contrato multimillonario ...

Aparte del retorno de Chevron, autoridades de Estados Unidos y Venezuela también estarían negociando la reactivación de la presencia diplomática de las partes en ambos países, según el Miami Herald. La eventual “licencia específica” que permitiría a Chevron reanudar una ...

PetroChina has quietly approved a multi-billion-dollar refinery and petrochemical complex in northeast China’s Dalian, marking a strategic shift amid declining fuel demand and growing petrochemical appetite. The final investment decision has been made, according to multiple sources, but it has not yet been formally announced. The new facility, to be built on Changxing Island, will feature a 200,000 bpd crude refinery and a 1.4 million ton-per-year ethylene unit, alongside polyethylene, polypropylene, and polyolefin elastomer production. Total…

Como parte de su agenda neoliberal, el Gobierno ecuatoriano anunció el jueves el despido de al menos 5.000 funcionarios públicos bajo el argumento de un supuesto plan de “modernización y eficiencia del Estado”. La vocera del Ejecutivo, Carolina Jaramillo, señaló qu...

Viernes, 25 de julio de 2025. INFORMATIVO: Rusia se prepara para una guerra nuclear, Trump enfurecido y Macron se mete en un lío Los periódicos rusos, considerados parte de la propaganda de Putin, han estado preparando a la población para un posible conflicto nuclear con Europa, destacando espec...

U.S. refiners are reassessing Latin American crude sourcing strategies after President Donald Trump’s administration granted Chevron the authority to resume and expand operations in Venezuela, signaling a shift in sanctions enforcement that could revive heavy crude flows to Gulf Coast plants. The change follows more than a year of tightened restrictions, during which Gulf refiners diversified rapidly to alternative suppliers including Brazil, Colombia, and Guyana crude. U.S., importing an average of 95,000 barrels per day from Guyana in the…

U.S. refiners are reassessing Latin American crude sourcing strategies after President Donald Trump’s administration granted Chevron the authority to resume and expand operations in Venezuela, signaling a shift in sanctions enforcement that could revive heavy crude flows to Gulf Coast plants. The change follows more than a year of tightened restrictions, during which Gulf refiners diversified rapidly to alternative suppliers including Brazil, Colombia, and Guyana crude. U.S., importing an average of 95,000 barrels per day from Guyana in the…

U.S. refiners are reassessing Latin American crude sourcing strategies after President Donald Trump’s administration granted Chevron the authority to resume and expand operations in Venezuela, signaling a shift in sanctions enforcement that could revive heavy crude flows to Gulf Coast plants. The change follows more than a year of tightened restrictions, during which Gulf refiners diversified rapidly to alternative suppliers including Brazil, Colombia, and Guyana crude. U.S., importing an average of 95,000 barrels per day from Guyana in the…

U.S. refiners are reassessing Latin American crude sourcing strategies after President Donald Trump’s administration granted Chevron the authority to resume and expand operations in Venezuela, signaling a shift in sanctions enforcement that could revive heavy crude flows to Gulf Coast plants. The change follows more than a year of tightened restrictions, during which Gulf refiners diversified rapidly to alternative suppliers including Brazil, Colombia, and Guyana crude. U.S., importing an average of 95,000 barrels per day from Guyana in the…

U.S. refiners are reassessing Latin American crude sourcing strategies after President Donald Trump’s administration granted Chevron the authority to resume and expand operations in Venezuela, signaling a shift in sanctions enforcement that could revive heavy crude flows to Gulf Coast plants. The change follows more than a year of tightened restrictions, during which Gulf refiners diversified rapidly to alternative suppliers including Brazil, Colombia, and Guyana crude. U.S., importing an average of 95,000 barrels per day from Guyana in the…

El foco del "Ponzigate aéreo", que estalló en Buenos Aires en los últimos días cuando decenas de "clientes" de una mujer que ofrecía pasajes con códigos especiales internos de la aerolínea Iberia se enteraron de que no obtendrían los boletos por los que ya habían pagado en ...

Uno de los más de 250 migrantes venezolanos secuestrados por Estados Unidos al llamado Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo en El Salvador, presentó este jueves una demanda civil contra el Gobierno norteamericano alegando que fue detenido y expulsado sin el debido proceso legal.

En un paso más hacia la integración regional, los gobiernos de Venezuela y Colombia firmaron recientemente un memorando de entendimiento para crear una Zona Económica Especial (ZEE) binacional. El acuerdo, que tiene como epicentro las regiones fronterizas de ambos países, hist...

Russia is “now producing three times as much ammunition in three months as the whole of NATO is doing in a year,” NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte recently told the New York Times. RFE/RL and the Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT), an open-source intelligence group, analyzed Russian and Western weapons production to assess whether Russia really has such a large production advantage over the US and its allies and in which categories of weapons -- artillery, ammunition, tanks, aircraft, missiles, and drones, and air defense -- each side…

Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict Multiple sources have confirmed to mainstream media that Washington has quietly reauthorized Chevron to resume limited operations in Venezuela, reversing its earlier stance. Reports this week claimed that Chevron will regain access to joint venture oil flows under a tightly controlled framework allegedly designed to prevent direct financial benefit to Maduro’s regime. The license is time-bound, likely capped at six months, and excludes any royalty payments or new investments. While hardliners like Secretary…