Trump Bets on Intimidation to Force Venezuelan Leaders Into Line

After removing President Nicolas Maduro from power, the Trump administration is gambling that it can intimidate the Venezuelan leader’s inner circle into toeing the U.S. line with threats of further…

  • Gas
  • January 4, 2026
Best of 2025: Richard Butland of Highview Power

As the energy transition builds, and renewable energy grows in the mix, the question of how to store electricity most effectively for grid flexibility has been climbing the agenda. Gas-fired…

  • Gas
  • January 4, 2026
Best of 2025: Richard Butland of Highview Power

As the energy transition builds, and renewable energy grows in the mix, the question of how to store electricity most effectively for grid flexibility has been climbing the agenda. Gas-fired…

  • Gas
  • January 4, 2026
Best of 2025: Tim Cesarek of Synata Bio on putting CO2 to work

Carbon dioxide is a crucial industrial gas in the right context. One of the keys to making the collection of previously vented-to-the-atmosphere CO2 a viable high-volume intervention is to make…

Investors Face More Geopolitical Whiplash From Trump’s Venezuela Gamble

Global investors are facing a fresh surge in geopolitical risk after the U.S. capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, a move that could unlock the nation’s vast oil reserves and…

COMMENTARY: Trump’s Venezuela Move: A $17 Trillion Reset of Global Geopolitics and a Pivotal Shift in US Energy Strategy – David…

The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine: “Chronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties of civilized society, may in America, as elsewhere, ultimately…

Maduro Says He Welcomes U.S. Investments in Venezuela’s Oil

Venezuela is ready to accept U.S. investment in its oil, Nicolas Maduro said late on Thursday, in a stark softening of the rhetoric from the embattled Venezuelan leader.   Maduro suggested…

Búzios Keeps Climbing as Petrobras Adds 180,000 Bpd With P-78 FPSO

Petrobras has brought the P-78 FPSO online at its Búzios 6 development, adding up to 180,000 barrels per day of oil capacity and reinforcing just how central the pre-salt has…

Mock House, CIA Source and Special Forces: The US Operation to Capture Maduro

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro At 4:21 on Saturday morning, President Donald Trump sent a message on his Truth Social platform: the United States had carried out a daring mission to…

Trump Says US Oil Companies Will Spend Billions in Venezuela

President Donald Trump said that American oil companies were prepared to enter Venezuela and invest to restore production in the South American country, an announcement that came just hours after…