19-08-26.-La Oficina de Control de Activos Extranjeros (Ofac) del Departamento del Tesoro de Estados Unidos formalizó la tarde de este martes, 18 de agosto, la incorporación de la empresa Bluwaves Properties a la lista SDN (Nacionales Especialmente Designados y Personas Bloqueadas). ...

19-08-26.-El precio del dólar en el Banco Central de Venezuela (BCV) se cotizó este martes 18 de agosto 2026 en Bs.775,33 por unidad según la última actualización en su página web oficial y redes sociales.      

18 de agosto de 2026,-La atención médica, la formación del personal y las labores administrativas de este centro asistencial en Valencia, estado Carabobo, cuentan ahora con mayor capacidad de conexión gracias a la activación de Aba Ultra, 100 % fibra óptica de Cantv, informó Comun...

Miércoles, 26 de agsto de 2026.- La presión de Irán dejó al descubierto el peligroso problema de Estados Unidos con Japón, Prof.Jiang Irán, China, Japón, Trump, el estrecho de Ormuz y el ejército estadounidense convergen en una crisis geopolítica que trasciende ampliamente Oriente Medio. En este...

Miércoles, 18 de agosto de 2026 ÚLTIMA HORA IRÁN | Trump frena negociaciones, amenaza a bases de EEUU y se dispara el petróleo Donald Trump rompe drásticamente las negociaciones con la República Islámica de Irán y asegura que el Estrecho de Ormuz está bajo el control operativo y naval de Estados...

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The Iran war has created an extraordinary earnings season for U.S. refiners. Brent crude has fallen to around $90 per barrel from a wartime peak of $126, but the shortage of refined fuels has only deepened. According to Reuters, Global refinery throughput in July was nearly 5 million barrels per day below year-earlier levels as Middle Eastern refineries remained constrained and Ukrainian attacks pushed Russian processing close to a 20-year low. U.S. refiners have stepped into the gap, running at or near record utilization rates and exporting more…

There have been perhaps a handful of events since the end of the Second World War that have fundamentally reshaped the world’s oil markets and consequently its geopolitics while remaining largely unnoticed at the time. The quiet agreement between U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Saudi King Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud struck on 14 February 1945 that would define the energy, economic, political and military relationship between the two countries until the rise of American shale in the early 2010s is one, as analysed in my latest…

Palantir chairman and hedge fund owner Peter Thiel bought a 1% stake in one of the biggest companies operating in the Vaca Muerta shale formation in Argentina in the latest evidence of the play’s prospects as the world’s second-largest shale oil and gas deposit amid a global crunch. Thiel bought the stake in Vista in the form of American depositary shares worth $76 million, according to a security filing cited by Reuters. The purchase came four months after a meeting between the venture capitalist and Argentina’s president, Javier…

AI is changing energy systems, but data centers are only a small part of the impact. Much has been written and said about how the data center and AI boom are consuming and will consume increasingly higher shares of global electricity demand, and grids are struggling to meet soaring demand. Fossil Fuel Gains Could Outweigh Emissions Cuts from Renewables Arguably, a fundamental change in the energy system may not come from surging power demand, but from the efficiencies and productivity gains AI will help energy companies achieve, according to a…

The American Petroleum Institute (API) estimated that crude oil inventories in the United States fell by 328,000 barrels in the week ending August 14. In the week prior, US crude oil inventories rose by 9.072 million barrels on the back of increased imports, decreased exports, and a sizeable injection from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). Commercial crude oil inventories excluding the SPR have lost just over 49 million barrels over the last eighteen weeks, with US crude inventories up 1.88 million for the year, according to API data, kept…

The American Petroleum Institute (API) estimated that crude oil inventories in the United States fell by 328,000 barrels in the week ending August 14. In the week prior, US crude oil inventories rose by 9.072 million barrels on the back of increased imports, decreased exports, and a sizeable injection from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). Commercial crude oil inventories excluding the SPR have lost just over 49 million barrels over the last eighteen weeks, with US crude inventories up 1.88 million for the year, according to API data, kept…

Green hydrogen research and development has found itself in limbo, once again. Enthusiasm for the resource’s potential as a clean energy solution in hard-to-abate sectors like steelmaking, shipping, and transportation has waxed and waned over the last decade as the technology has made incremental progress but largely failed to meet expectations. While the war in Iran breathed some new life into the sector as a potential alternative to oil and gas, that new wave of optimism faces major economic headwinds. Take the state of California. The…

Martes, 18 de agost o de 2026.- Ataque con misiles en EAU, furia de Trump contra Irán y pánico en los mercados. Emiratos Árabes Unidos activa la alerta de seguridad nacional tras interceptar una amenaza de misiles en su territorio en plena escalada regional, mientras el Pentágono evalúa un cambi...

18 de agosto de 2026.- El Centro de Estudios por la Democracia Socialista-CEDES tiene el placer de invitar al lanzamiento del libro GRAMSCI: Bloque histórico y hegemonía, escrito por el profesor Carlos Mezones. El mismo se realizará este jueves 20 de agosto en la sede de esa institución ubicada entr...

18 de agosto de 2026.- Mujeres denunciaron casos de acoso sexual mientras esperaban ser registradas, luego de que entraron el pasado 30 de julio en Ceuta, al enclave español del norte de África como parte de ⁠una travesía migratoria masiva Más de una docena de mujeres montaron un campamento en un...

Martes, 18 de agosto de 2026.- ¿Qué sabe Putin de la CIA? Lección que México debe aprender | Entrevista Completa con Tucker Carlson ¿Está México preparado para las jugadas geopolíticas de la CIA y el tablero internacional? En un momento crucial para la soberanía de América Latina, las revelacion...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has predicted that the Strait of Hormuz will become “irrelevant” within two years, and with Gulf oil producers already building their way around it, millions of barrels may prove him right for a short time.  Months into the Iran war, the UAE, Iraq, Kuwait and Qatar are moving more than 4 million barrels per day through a shadow export network of AIS-dark shuttle tankers and ship-to-ship transfers outside the Persian Gulf, keeping millions of barrels flowing through a waterway that has largely…

Saudi Arabia spent weeks finding ways around the Strait of Hormuz. Now it is starting to send tankers straight back through it. Saudi Aramco resumed crude loadings from its Ras Tanura and Juaymah terminals inside the strait last week, ending a three-week gap in activity at the ports, according to Kpler and Vortexa data cited by Reuters. Three VLCCs—Malaysia Prosperity, Algeria Prosperity and Singapore Prosperity—each loaded roughly 2 million barrels between August 12 and August 16. Six more VLCCs could load Saudi crude from inside Hormuz…

Saudi Arabia spent weeks finding ways around the Strait of Hormuz. Now it is starting to send tankers straight back through it. Saudi Aramco resumed crude loadings from its Ras Tanura and Juaymah terminals inside the strait last week, ending a three-week gap in activity at the ports, according to Kpler and Vortexa data cited by Reuters. Three VLCCs—Malaysia Prosperity, Algeria Prosperity and Singapore Prosperity—each loaded roughly 2 million barrels between August 12 and August 16. Six more VLCCs could load Saudi crude from inside Hormuz…