Energy
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Peter Thiel's Fund Takes $76 Million Stake in Argentina's Vista Energy
A new 13F filing shows Thiel Macro holding nearly 1.2 million Vista shares, making the Vaca Muerta oil exporter its larg...
Rhine Drought Leaves Eastern French Service Stations Short of Petrol
Water at Kaub has fallen to 130cm, forcing barges to cut fuel cargoes by 80% and leaving up to half of Haut-Rhin and Bel...
Washington’s Hormuz Export Claims Clash With Tanker Tracking Data
Kpler and JPMorgan data challenge Energy Secretary Chris Wright's claim that Gulf oil exports have returned to pre-war l...
Europe's Heatwave Curbs Nuclear Power and Leaves Gas Storage Dangerously Thin Before Winter
Extreme heat is forcing nuclear shutdowns in Romania, France and Hungary, while low rivers and a blocked Strait of Hormu...
Petrobras Sees Amapá Ultra-Deepwater Oil Production Within Seven Years After Foz do Amazonas Find
Hydrocarbons in the Morfo well point to a new Brazilian frontier; CEO Magda Chambriard says Amapá could be producing ult...
European Gas Prices Rise 1% to $727 on Middle East Risk
Front-month TTF futures traded at $726.50 on ICE Friday evening, up 0.9% from a $720 settlement, as Middle East conflict...
Kazakhstan's $160bn Kashagan Arbitration Tests Oil Majors and Resource Nationalism
Astana says graft-inflated contracts delayed Kashagan by a decade; NCOC rejects the claims in an arbitration that could ...
Trump Says He Will Declare Strait of Hormuz U.S. Territory; Iran Vows to Keep Blockade
The president's remark at a New York rally drew a sharp Iranian rebuke as the strategic oil chokepoint stays shut and U....
Croatia’s Geoenergija and KazMunayGas Register Kazakh Oil Exploration Venture
Croatia’s state-owned Geoenergija and Kazakhstan’s KazMunayGas have formed Shygys Operating to explore a 2,400 sq km Akt...
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...