Last month, Shell (NYSE:SHEL), alongside Malaysia's PETRONAS, China's PetroChina, Mitsubishi Corporation and KOGAS, officially approved the Final Investment Decision (FID) for the LNG Canada Phase 2 expansion project, doubling the facility's capacity to 28 million tons per annum (mtpa) and reinforcing the country's potential as a significant long-term supplier to Asian markets. Together with Cedar LNG and Woodfibre, both currently under construction, Canada is expected to export 33 mtpa of LNG by the end of the current decade.  According to…

Todo el cuerpo de policía a tiempo completo y el administrador municipal de una localidad de Georgia renuncian en medio de acusaciones contra el alcalde 22 de octubre de 2026.-El jefe de policía, Lamar Bunn, acusó al ayuntamiento de haber colocado en...

China has relied on its huge crude oil inventories since the Iran war hiked oil prices to above $100 per barrel. The world’s biggest crude importer has drawn from its 1.3-billion-barrel stash for most of the months after March as it slashed imports amid soaring prices. The stock draws, and the reduced imports in the spring and summer, have even kept benchmark crude oil prices in check despite the major disruption to flows from the Middle East, as China’s crude supply management was one of the key buffers the market has had since the…

El otorgamiento de créditos busca convertir a los pequeños productores merideños en grandes comercializadores con proyecciones al mercado internacional 22 de octubre de 2026.-La Gobernación del estado Mérida, bajo la gestión del gobernador Arnaldo Sánchez, fue sede de una exp...

The European Union will shun crude oil and natural gas produced from fields in the Arctic, recommending that these “stay in the ground” under its new Arctic strategy released this week. The reiteration of the EU’s stance on Arctic hydrocarbons comes amid a severe fuel crisis and soaring gas prices ahead of winter peak demand season. The update on the Arctic strategy of the bloc that has quite limited geographical exposure to the Arctic comes five years after the last one, as the Arctic draws increasing attention, notably from…

22 de octubre de 2026.- La Conferencia Mundial de la Diversidad Biológica (COP17), ya arrancó en Eraván, Armenia, desde donde el ministro del Poder Popular para el Ecosocialismo, Nelson Rodríguez, destacó la condición ecológica del territorio venezolano. "Para nosotros es conocido que, Venezue...

The energy demand boom being driven by the artificial intelligence era is placing unprecedented strain on global energy infrastructure. Not only are the world’s energy production capacities – and especially clean energy production capacities – dwarfed by projected data center energy demand curves in coming years, the physical infrastructure needed to build and sustain never-before-seen rates of electrification and energy consumption growth is woefully underdeveloped. At present, the world’s energy grids and transmission…

22 de octubre de 2026.- El superintendente del Servicio Nacional Integrado de Administración Aduanera y Tributaria (SENIAT), Román Maniglia, anunció la eliminación de la obligatoriedad del uso de máquinas fiscales para los procesos de facturación en el país, dejando la adopción de estos equipos a cr...

Asia will need as much as $1 trillion annually in energy investment over the next 15 years to meet rising demand and reduce its exposure to supply disruptions, according to a McKinsey report released Thursday. That amounts to $15 trillion through 2040, with the Iran war exposing just how vulnerable the region remains to disruptions in oil and gas shipments through the Strait of Hormuz. McKinsey now expects Asian energy demand to reach 370 million terajoules by 2040, a 15% increase over its forecast from just a year ago. The region is expected to…

Asia will need as much as $1 trillion annually in energy investment over the next 15 years to meet rising demand and reduce its exposure to supply disruptions, according to a McKinsey report released Thursday. That amounts to $15 trillion through 2040, with the Iran war exposing just how vulnerable the region remains to disruptions in oil and gas shipments through the Strait of Hormuz. McKinsey now expects Asian energy demand to reach 370 million terajoules by 2040, a 15% increase over its forecast from just a year ago. The region is expected to…

French historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz has offered energy-transition skeptics an appealing historical argument. In More and More and More, he argues that humanity has never really moved from one energy source to another. Wood was joined by coal, coal by oil, oil by gas and all of them by renewables. Energy sources accumulate rather than replace one another. Global primary-energy charts make the argument look convincing. Fossil use remains near record levels after trillions in clean-energy investment. Biomass did not disappear when coal arrived,…

Asia will need as much as $1 trillion annually in energy investment over the next 15 years to meet rising demand and reduce its exposure to supply disruptions, according to a McKinsey report released Thursday. That amounts to $15 trillion through 2040, with the Iran war exposing just how vulnerable the region remains to disruptions in oil and gas shipments through the Strait of Hormuz. McKinsey now expects Asian energy demand to reach 370 million terajoules by 2040, a 15% increase over its forecast from just a year ago. The region is expected to…

22 de octubre de 2026.- En sesión ordinaria, la Asamblea Nacional aprobó este jueves 22 de octubre, por unanimidad la designación de los 12 ciudadanos seleccionados por la Comisión Preliminar para integrar el Comité de Postulaciones Judiciales, quienes sumarán sus capacidades junto a los diputados d...

Canadian oil producer Strathcona Resources wants to export up to 250,000 barrels per day of crude from British Columbia’s northern coast using rail shipments and a new marine terminal to reach Asian markets. But first, it needs Ottawa to make an exception to its oil tanker ban. Strathcona Chairman Adam Waterous told Bloomberg that the company plans to approach Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government as early as next week with a proposal to move crude by rail to a new export terminal in Prince Rupert. Waterous believes exports could…

22 de octubre de 2026.- Las protestas, previstas entre este jueves y el 27 de octubre, se enmarcan en la polémica por la situación en Ceuta tras la llegada masiva de migrantes a finales de julio. Amnistía Internacional, CEAR, Oxfam Intermón, Red Acoge, No Name Kitchen y la Plataforma de Infancia ...

22 de octubre de 2026.- Miles de manifestantes salieron a las calles de París el jueves pese a las prohibiciones de protestas que se ordenaron en varias ciudades francesas tras un fin de semana de enfrentamientos y saqueos generalizados que marcó el episodio de disturbios más violento en Francia en ...

Europe’s carbon market could soon start paying shipowners to switch fuels, but the support on offer is far from equal. In July, the European Commission proposed a revision of the European Union’s Emissions Trading System that would reserve up to 110 million allowances between 2028 and 2040 for a new Sustainable Maritime Alternative Propulsion (SMAP) mechanism, which is meant to cover part of the price gap between fossil marine fuels and sustainable alternatives. Rystad Energy’s analysis shows that, combined with the EU ETS…

Citi sees more upside risk for oil prices despite recovering Middle Eastern crude exports, a considerably less bearish assessment from the bank that predicted $60-to-$65 Brent by year-end just three months ago. Brent December futures traded at $111.70 on Thursday, up $2.88, or 2.65%, after touching $112.68 earlier in the session. The problem, Citi says, is that getting crude out of the Gulf and getting it to buyers at a reasonable cost are two different things. More than 1 million barrels per day of Gulf crude was transferred between vessels in…

Citi sees more upside risk for oil prices despite recovering Middle Eastern crude exports, a considerably less bearish assessment from the bank that predicted $60-to-$65 Brent by year-end just three months ago. Brent December futures traded at $111.70 on Thursday, up $2.88, or 2.65%, after touching $112.68 earlier in the session. The problem, Citi says, is that getting crude out of the Gulf and getting it to buyers at a reasonable cost are two different things. More than 1 million barrels per day of Gulf crude was transferred between vessels in…

Citi sees more upside risk for oil prices despite recovering Middle Eastern crude exports, a considerably less bearish assessment from the bank that predicted $60-to-$65 Brent by year-end just three months ago. Brent December futures traded at $111.70 on Thursday, up $2.88, or 2.65%, after touching $112.68 earlier in the session. The problem, Citi says, is that getting crude out of the Gulf and getting it to buyers at a reasonable cost are two different things. More than 1 million barrels per day of Gulf crude was transferred between vessels in…