U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright is reinstating the so-called Deferred Resignation Program (DRP) to incentivize employees to leave voluntarily before layoffs begin as part of the Trump Administration’s push to reduce the federal workforce and bureaucracy. “This is a difficult but necessary effort to make government more efficient and accountable. In conducting any such exercise, it is important to consider how optimization initiatives could impact DOE personnel,” Secretary Wright wrote in a memo to staff obtained by POLITICO’s…

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright is reinstating the so-called Deferred Resignation Program (DRP) to incentivize employees to leave voluntarily before layoffs begin as part of the Trump Administration’s push to reduce the federal workforce and bureaucracy. “This is a difficult but necessary effort to make government more efficient and accountable. In conducting any such exercise, it is important to consider how optimization initiatives could impact DOE personnel,” Secretary Wright wrote in a memo to staff obtained by POLITICO’s…

Mientras las tensiones políticas se mantienen elevadas, el petróleo de Venezuela encuentra una vía de escape hacia EEUU. Los recientes datos de la Administración de Información Energética de Estados Unidos (EIA, por sus siglas en inglés) de enero de 2025 pintan un cuadro sorprendente: las expo...

Crude oil inventories in the United States saw a large increase of 6.2 million barrels during the week ending March 28, according to new data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration released on Wednesday. Crude oil prices were trading up prior to the crude data release by the U.S. Energy Information Administration after the American Petroleum Institute (API) reported on Tuesday a build of 6.037 million barrels in U.S. crude oil inventories amid a small gasoline draw. The Brent benchmark was trading up 0.01% at 10:28 a.m. ET at $74.50—a…

Russia has ordered a 90-day halt to one of several berths at the port of Novorossiysk, its key Black Sea oil export route, a day after it ordered the temporary shutdown of two of three moorings at the key export terminal for Kazakhstan’s oil. Transneft, the Russian pipeline monopoly, announced on Wednesday that the ongoing safety checks from Russia’s transportation authority resulted in an order for a 90-day halt to oil loading at berth 8 at the Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port (NCSP). Russia’s Federal Agency for Transport Supervision…

Russia has ordered a 90-day halt to one of several berths at the port of Novorossiysk, its key Black Sea oil export route, a day after it ordered the temporary shutdown of two of three moorings at the key export terminal for Kazakhstan’s oil. Transneft, the Russian pipeline monopoly, announced on Wednesday that the ongoing safety checks from Russia’s transportation authority resulted in an order for a 90-day halt to oil loading at berth 8 at the Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port (NCSP). Russia’s Federal Agency for Transport Supervision…

El presidente Donald Trump notificó a Repsol y a otras petroleras asociadas con la empresa estatal Petróleos de Venezuela Sociedad Anónima (PDVSA) para que sus permisos para exportar crudo y derivados desde ese país queden cancelados. Esto es una estrategia para endurecer las sanciones contra ...

Víctor Andrés Ortega Burbano, un joven con discapacidad por atrofia muscular en el brazo derecho, se encuentra entre el grupo de los 17 venezolanos enviados el pasado domingo al Cent...

Global seaborne crude oil flows rose in March from February, just ahead of the supply increase coming from OPEC+ in April, oil flows tracking data by Bloomberg showed on Wednesday. Global crude exports averaged 39.92 million barrels per day (bpd) in March, up by 119,000 bpd from February levels, according to the observed shipments tracked by Bloomberg. Flows from Brazil, Canada, and Russia jumped last month from a month earlier, while crude flows from the United States and the North Sea saw large decreases. Shipments from the world’s top…

Una comisión del Gobierno Bolivariano de Venezuela, conformada por la Superintendencia Nacional de Zonas Económicas Especiales (Sunazee), y el Centro Internacional de Inversión Productivas (CIIP), visitó la República Popular China, con el propósito de promover la inversión y desarrollo de las ...

La Superintendencia Nacional para la Defensa de los Derechos Socioeconómicos (Sundde) informó sobre la ampliación en la supervisión a los comercios por el cobro de productos a tasa no oficial. En este sentido, realizó la activación de "puntos justos" para actuar de manera inmediata a...

Energy ministers of the OPEC+ producers will discuss in a Thursday call the importance of sticking to the oil production quotas under the deal, delegates from the alliance told Bloomberg on Wednesday. In every press release for years, the OPEC+ group has been stressing how important sticking to the quotas is. Overproduction has partly negated the bullish effects of the cuts on the oil market. The alliance is beginning the easing of the cuts this month, adding 138,000 barrels per day (bpd) to combined production. However, all OPEC+ calculations…

Energy ministers of the OPEC+ producers will discuss in a Thursday call the importance of sticking to the oil production quotas under the deal, delegates from the alliance told Bloomberg on Wednesday. In every press release for years, the OPEC+ group has been stressing how important sticking to the quotas is. Overproduction has partly negated the bullish effects of the cuts on the oil market. The alliance is beginning the easing of the cuts this month, adding 138,000 barrels per day (bpd) to combined production. However, all OPEC+ calculations…

Energy ministers of the OPEC+ producers will discuss in a Thursday call the importance of sticking to the oil production quotas under the deal, delegates from the alliance told Bloomberg on Wednesday. In every press release for years, the OPEC+ group has been stressing how important sticking to the quotas is. Overproduction has partly negated the bullish effects of the cuts on the oil market. The alliance is beginning the easing of the cuts this month, adding 138,000 barrels per day (bpd) to combined production. However, all OPEC+ calculations…

El ministro de Defensa de Israel, Israel Katz, anunció este miércoles una importante expansión de la operación militar en Gaza que implica la toma de grandes áreas de tierra que serán "incorporadas a las zonas de seguridad de Israel". En la declaración, Katz dijo que la op...

A través de una misiva enviada al despacho de Petróleos de Venezuela, los inversionistas de la empresa norteamericana Sunergon Oil Operating ratifican su compromiso en llevar adelante la alianza estratégica establecida con la industria venezolana para i...

La jueza Susan Crawford, respaldada por los demócratas, ha ganado este martes las elecciones a un puesto del Tribunal Supremo de Wisconsin, manteniendo la mayoría progresista de la corte estatal. Crawford ha salido victoriosa a pesar de la campaña del presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, y de...

A menos de dos semanas de que unos 13.7 millones de ecuatorianos acudan a las urnas este 13 de abril para elegir a la persona que asuma la presidencia del país, la candidata por el opositor partido Revolución Ciudadana (RC), Luisa González, se posiciona como la favorita en las encuestas. ...

La junta militar birmana elevó este miércoles a 2.886 el número de muertos y a 4.639 los heridos por el terremoto que golpeó hace cinco días la región centro-norte de Birmania (Myanmar), donde continúa la búsqueda de supervivientes entre miles de edificios derruidos. El portavoz de ...

El presidente estadounidense, Donald Trump, se sitúa en el puesto 700 de la lista de millonarios de la revista Forbes publicada este martes, con una fortuna de 5.100 millones de dólares impulsada por sus negocios en el sector de las criptomonedas. El mandatario, de 78 años, ha...