China has been investing billions in nuclear fusion research. A potential game-changer for global energy, fusion has been slow to live up to promises, but now, Chinese scientists have reported yet another breakthrough in the process: a state of matter that was previously only theorized. Reported in Science Advances, the …
Read More »Chevron Keeps Venezuelan Oil Flowing as Asia Shipments Stall
Venezuela’s beleaguered oil export system is narrowing rapidly around Chevron as shipments to its largest traditional customer in China remain stalled amid an intensified U.S. oil embargo and mounting geopolitical upheaval. Shipping data as of January 6 shows crude loading for Chinese buyers at Venezuelan ports has been on hold …
Read More »Shell Returns to Angola as Oil Majors Circle a Declining Basin
Shell is making a quiet but pointed return to Angola’s offshore oil patch, signing a deal to acquire a 35% stake in two deepwater blocks from a Chevron subsidiary, as international majors circle a country trying to arrest a long production slide. The agreement gives Shell a minority interest in …
Read More »Top Oil Traders Eye Swift Return to Venezuela
Some of the biggest international oil trading houses, including Trafigura Group, will discuss with the U.S. Administration returning to oil trade with Venezuela, the global head of Trafigura’s oil division, Ben Luckock, told Bloomberg television in an interview on Tuesday. The capture of Nicolas Maduro opens the door to U.S. …
Read More »EU’s Carbon Border Tax Goes Live and Trade Partners are not Amused
On Thursday, January 1st, the EU carbon border adjustment mechanism entered into effect with the goal of improving the competitiveness of European goods manufacturers against non-EU companies operating in laxer emissions reduction frameworks. China was the first to threaten retaliation. It won’t be the last. The carbon border adjustment mechanism, …
Read More »White Hydrogen Emerges as a Wild Card in the Global Clean Energy Race
The white hydrogen boom could be within sight based on recent finds in France, the United States, and other parts of the world. However, developers are still not sure of the costs involved with exploiting white hydrogen resources, as well as the technical challenges to accessing reserves, making the outlook …
Read More »An Entire Arctic Town is Being Moved in Europe’s Minerals Expansion
Over two days during the short 2025 summer beyond the Arctic Circle, a mining company moved a 113-year-old timber church building in its entirety nearly two miles away, in an engineering feat that made international headlines. The moving of the Kiruna Church from the Swedish town of the same name, …
Read More »Africa’s Emerging LNG Corridor is Taking Shape South of the Sahara
For years, energy experts have predicted that natural gas will be the only fossil fuel that will see significant growth in its share in the global primary energy mix in the coming years, thanks to its role as a “bridge fuel” due to a lower emission profile compared with coal …
Read More »U.S. to Keep Oil Blockade on Venezuela after Maduro’s Capture
The United States will keep what it calls an oil quarantine on Venezuela even after U.S. forces bombed Caracas and captured President Nicolas Maduro. According to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, this quarantine is as far as the U.S. “running Venezuela” would go. “We continue with that quarantine, and we …
Read More »OPEC+ Reaffirms Output Pause as Eight Producers Cite Market Stability
OPEC+ confirmed on Sunday that it will keep oil production steady through the first quarter of 2026, as eight key producers reaffirmed their commitment to market stability amid a steady global economic outlook and what they described as healthy oil market fundamentals. Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, …
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