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Trump Says U.S. Will Claim Strait of Hormuz, Deepening Iran Standoff and Oil Supply Risk
Trump's pledge to declare the Strait of Hormuz U.S. territory has escalated an unresolved Iran conflict and put the key ...
Natural Gas Could Triple at Some U.S. Hubs, Hitting Hyperscaler AI Power Plans
Noreva sees U.S. gas prices rising above $10 per million BTUs as AI data center demand meets LNG exports and slower supp...
El Dabaa Unit 1 Starts Fifth Inner Containment Level Installation
Twelve site-fabricated segments weighing 40–45 tonnes each will be assembled into a ring over two weeks using a 2,200-to...
Syria Reclaims Oil and Port Assets as Western and Gulf Deals Erode Russia's Role
Damascus has retaken key oil and gas fields, replaced Russia's Tartous port deal with DP World and opened onshore and of...
Hormuz Strikes and Saudi Refinery Drones Put Oil Chokepoints Under Pressure
Iran's attack on ADNOC-linked tankers and fresh Houthi drones on Saudi Aramco show the war is escalating across the Gulf...
Long-Duration Battery Startups Raise $1.3B as Data Centers Seek 24/7 Clean Power
Form Energy’s $750 million round and Antora Energy’s $550 million raise put iron-air and carbon-block storage at the cen...
Russia's Refineries Are Becoming the Economic Fault Line of the War
Ukrainian long-range drone strikes have knocked a large share of Russian refining capacity offline, forcing fuel rationi...
US Energy Secretary: Iran's Strategy Will Fail and Its Market Leverage Will Shrink
Chris Wright says Iran's disruption strategy is losing, points to 8–9 million barrels daily through Hormuz, and reiterat...
Vance Says Cutting US Gasoline Prices Is Top Priority in Iran War
Vice President J.D. Vance says the Trump administration's first goal is keeping oil and gas prices low across America, w...
Oil Prices Rise Over 1% as US Threatens Open-Ended Iran Naval Blockade
Crude extends weekly gains above 5% after Washington signals unprecedented economic isolation measures and revives suppl...
Ecopetrol Board Chief Says Ready Fracking Projects Could Guarantee 10 Years of Gas
Luis Felipe Henao wants an extraordinary assembly by late September and says Magdalena-basin fracking could secure a dec...
ADNOC's Post-OPEC Blitz: Spot Sales, New Buyers and a Risky Hormuz Shuttle Redraw Gulf Oil Marketing
Abu Dhabi's state oil giant has started selling spot cargoes, courting trading houses and reworking contract terms after...
Texas Would Be the World's No. 4 Oil Producer if It Were a Country
EIA data show Texas averaged 5.75 million barrels per day in 2025 — 42% of U.S. crude — enough to outrank Canada, Iraq a...
Can Trump’s New Solar Tariffs Fix the U.S. Polysilicon and Wafer Gap?
The Section 232 order puts 15% tariffs and price floors on imported polysilicon, wafers, cells and modules from Dec. 4, ...
The Blackout Premium: Why Grid Stability Is Becoming Energy’s New Value Driver
After national blackouts in Spain, Portugal, Chile and Brazil, Actis argues investors will pay a premium for grid-formin...
Petrobras Strikes Hydrocarbons in Brazil's Equatorial Margin Well
The Morpho well in the Foz do Amazonas basin has found oil or gas indications, raising the stakes for a frontier that co...
Petrobras Confirms Hydrocarbons in Foz do Amazonas Well, but No Commercial Volumes Yet
CEO Magda Cambriard says the Morpho well confirms an active petroleum system in the Foz do Amazonas basin, while drillin...
XRG Enters Venezuela's Loran Offshore Gas Licence With bp and UCC
ADNOC's XRG is joining a Venezuelan offshore gas block it says holds more than 4 trillion cubic feet of proven gas, deep...
Nigeria's upstream regulator weighs petroleum swap to boost local refinery crude supply
Nigeria's NUPRC is considering a domestic petroleum swap to cut crude delivery costs to local refineries, as Q2 2026 dom...
Astronergy Launches ASTRO N7 Pro in Dhaka and Signs 70 MWp Bangladesh Distribution Deal
The CHINT Group solar unit debuted its latest module for utility-scale and C&I projects in Bangladesh and appointed Gene...
ADNOC's XRG Enters Venezuela Through Loran Offshore Gas Concession
XRG, ADNOC's international energy investment arm, has taken a stake in Venezuela's Loran offshore gas concession alongsi...
Greens Push Windfall Tax on Oil Companies as German Fuel Prices Bite
Green parliamentary leader Katharina Dröge wants excess oil profits taxed and refunded through lower electricity costs, ...
Bipartisan Bill Would Fix RFS Woody Biomass Definition to Create Market for Forest Thinning
A bipartisan proposal would let low-value wood qualify as advanced biofuel feedstock under the Renewable Fuel Standard, ...
AI Data Centres' Power Swings Are Wearing Out Critical Equipment
Millisecond-scale GPU power spikes are cracking turbines, killing batteries and threatening uptime — and the wider grid ...
Sevastopol Fuel Sales Set for Mixed QR-Code and Open Rationing on Thursday
Governor Mikhail Razvozhaev announced that TES and Atan stations will sell non-premium gasoline by QR code while freeing...
Georgia Watchdogs Ask Regulators to Reject OpenAI-Georgia Power Contract Over Ratepayer Risk
NRDC, Sierra Club and SACE want Georgia’s Public Service Commission to reject OpenAI’s 3.2 GW power deal unless Georgia ...
Utility Programs, Not Washington, Now Foot the Bill for Industrial Fleet Electrification
A new incentive map shows utilities and state voucher programs have become the primary funding sources for electric fork...
Midwest Utilities Restore Power After 99 MPH Storms; 239,000 NIPSCO Customers Still Dark
NIPSCO's largest-ever outage, plus multi-day repairs at Duke, AEP and ComEd, show how extreme weather is stressing Midwe...
S&C Electric's Matamoros: Future grid resilience needs simple edge automation and pragmatic AI
At DTECH Reliability & Resiliency, S&C Electric's chief product development officer makes the case for layered distribut...
DOE Ends Review of Last Three National Interest Transmission Corridors
Energy Secretary Chris Wright ends the NIETC review process for the Lake Erie–Canada, Southwestern Grid Connector and Tr...