The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States fell yet again this week, according to new data that Baker Hughes published on Friday, following a 3-rig decrease last week, and a 10-rig decrease the week before that. The total rig count in the US fell by 4 to 559 rigs, according to Baker Hughes, down 35 from this same time last year. The number of oil rigs fell by 9 to 442 after falling by 4 during the previous week—and down by 50 compared to this time last year. The number of gas rigs rose by 5 this week, to…

6 de junio de 2025.- La pérdida de comunicación con la nave Resilience al momento del descenso sobre la superficie de la luna, obligó hoy a la compañía privada japonesa ispace a decretar el fin de la misión. De acuerdo con el director ejecutivo de ispace, Takeshi Hakamada, la señal de comunicació...

6 de junio de 2025.- Un total de 192 venezolanos llegaron a Venezuela a través del Aeropuerto Internacional Simón Bolívar de Maiquetía, en La Guaira, a primera hora de este viernes, informó el vicepresidente sectorial de Política, Seguridad Ciudadana y Paz, Diosdado Cabello. Durante la transmisió...

Viernes, 06 de junio de 2025.- Rusia lanza su mayor bombardeo contra Ucrania, Trump y Musk explotan y Europa advierte. Rusia ha lanzado el mayor ataque aéreo contra Ucrania, como venganza por el ataque a sus aeródromos el fin de semana pasado. El presidente ucraniano ha denunciado que la operac...

The U.S. Treasury Department has unleashed a sweeping wave of sanctions targeting a sprawling network of companies and individuals accused of facilitating Iranian oil and petrochemical exports in violation of existing sanctions. The action, announced Friday, strikes at the financial and logistical infrastructure underpinning Iran’s shadow energy trade—particularly its crude exports to Asia. At the center of the designations is Nasser Zarrin Ghalam and Partners Company, based in Tehran, which U.S. authorities say orchestrates illicit…

The U.S. Treasury Department has unleashed a sweeping wave of sanctions targeting a sprawling network of companies and individuals accused of facilitating Iranian oil and petrochemical exports in violation of existing sanctions. The action, announced Friday, strikes at the financial and logistical infrastructure underpinning Iran’s shadow energy trade—particularly its crude exports to Asia. At the center of the designations is Nasser Zarrin Ghalam and Partners Company, based in Tehran, which U.S. authorities say orchestrates illicit…

Viernes, 06 de junio de 2025.- Así se ve un glóbulo blanco humano persiguiendo a una bacteria Los avances de la ciencia no dejan de sorprendernos nos referimos a la publicación de un video en el que puede apreciarse como un glóbulo blanco persigue a una bacteria hasta que consigue envorverla. ...

6 de junio de 2025.- El secretario general del Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela, Diosdado Cabello, anunció que este 7 de junio se llevarán a cabo las asambleas de bases de postulación en las comunidades del país de cara a las elecciones municipales el próximo 27 de julio. Durante una rueda d...

Viernes, 06 de junio de 2025.- "Powell está consiguiendo una pendiente de la curva del mercado terrible que nunca había ocurrido" Sigue el choque Powell-Trump, con el desafío de la FED de mantener los tipos de interés ante la presión del presidente de EEUU de bajar los tipos. Jerome Powell no ne...

ICE Brent is poised to close the week above $66 as trade optimism lifts sentiment, while stubborn geopolitical tensions and shifting wildfire risks keep supply concerns alive. June 6th, 2025 ICE Brent futures are set to close this week above $66 per barrel, a more than 3% weekly gain after markets were buoyed by the prospect of US-China trade talks all the while derailed US-Iran and Russia-Ukraine negotiations have kept geopolitical risk premia intact. Supply risks from Canada’s wildfires seem to be subsiding after Alberta saw some rain earlier…

The fuel economy standards issued under former President Biden exceeded legal authority, the U.S. Department of Transportation said on Friday. Under the so-called Corporate Average Fuel Economy Program (CAFE), the Biden Administration included electric vehicles (EVs) in calculating fuel economy regulations. Now the Trump Administration published a ‘Resetting the Corporate Average Fuel Economy Program’ rule, in which it declared that the Biden-era rule and rule-making exceeded legal authority. Last month, Transportation Secretary Sean…

Viernes, 06 de junio de 2025.- Daniel Baeza analiza el papel creciente de China en la economía global y su influencia estratégica en el sistema financiero. Se plantea que China, aunque desde Occidente aún no se le preste la suficiente atención, ya compite de tú a tú con Estados Unidos en una guerra...

Viernes, 06 de junio de 2025.- Vino Jorge Castro, uno de los analistas geopolíticos más prestigiosos de nuestro país (Argentina). Hablamos de todo: el rol de China y EE.UU. en el tablero global, el lugar y el futuro de Argentina y los cambios que sacuden al mundo de hoy. Una charla clave, llena de ...

Wary of the ‘Hockey Stick’, Oil Traders Hedge Their 2025 Exposure - Open interest in WTI calendar spread options - contracts that see market participants bid on the future value of crude oil futures across different delivery months – has reached an all-time high as traders expect this year’s assumed oversupply to only materialize in 2026. - The prompt spread between July and August was trading around $0.90 per barrel for most of this week, whilst the difference between December 2025 and December 2026 was a mere $0.50 per…

.El viceministro de Políticas Antibloqueo, William Castillo, informó a través de la red social X que el despojo de Citgo a la República Bolivariana de Venezuela, fue materializado por un juzgado estadounidense, que se valió de la complicidad de la extrema derecha venezolana, para maquillar de ...

La vicepresidenta de la República, Delcy Rodríguez, aseguró que "Venezuela no reconocerá ninguna sentencia de la Corte Internacional de Justicia (CIJ) o de otro organismos internacional sobre el Esequibo", y defenderá el Tratado de Ginebra como único mecanismo para resolver la contro...

Viernes, 06 de junio de 2025.- Kremlin: "Rusia ha destruido toda la chatarra que hemos enviado a Ucrania en el primer año" Eduardo Irastorza, profesor OBS Business School, resalta el carácter simbólico y político de la decisión de Mertz, interpretándola como un gesto desesperado por parte de Alem...

La ministra de Comercio Exterior de Venezuela, Coromoto Godoy, se reunió este miércoles con el embajador de Irán, Alí Chegini, para evaluar los avances en la cooperación comercial entre ambos países. En una publicación en Instagram, Godoy destacó que el encuentro sirvió para analiza...

HSBC’s forecast that Brent Crude prices would remain around $65 per barrel later this year could be too optimistic as OPEC+ continues to raise production, which will result in a bigger-than-expected surplus after the summer ends. “Our new scenario assumes regular hikes from October to December and leaves the 2.2mbd of voluntary cuts fully unwound by the end of 2025,” the bank said in a note on Friday carried by Reuters. OPEC+ producers have just said they would boost July production by another 411,000 barrels per day (bpd), citing…

Venezuela hasn’t waited long to replace Western service providers in its oil industry after the U.S. sanctions, and has signed at least nine agreements with foreign firms, including from China, sources with knowledge of the deals told Bloomberg. Under the U.S. sanctions, Western oil producers were given time until May to wrap up their operations in Venezuela, home to the world’s biggest crude oil reserves. U.S. licenses for the biggest oilfield service providers – Schlumberger, Halliburton, Baker Hughes, and Weatherford International…