An American company is preparing to send a cargo of diesel and gasoline to Cuba in what, if successful, would be the biggest U.S. shipment of fuel to the island nation since the start of the U.S. embargo, Bloomberg reported. Florida-based Vanguard Energy is already exporting gasoline and diesel to Cuba—exclusively working with private buyers.

The United States will release liquefied natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas from its strategic reserves to sell to ASEAN members, Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau said today at an ASEAN event in Vietnam. “The current energy crisis has clearly outlined the need for countries to diversify energy resources, and the United States wants

Japan’s JERA has signed a supply contract for the supply of liquefied natural gas with Malaysia’s state major Petronas for a period of 20 years, starting in 2028. “Amid growing uncertainty in the international energy situation, cooperation with Malaysia, a stable supplier of LNG to Japan, is becoming increasingly important,” Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi

Oil prices jumped in early Asian trading on Wednesday after the United States launched what it described as self-defense strikes against Iranian military targets near the Strait of Hormuz.  At the time of writing, Brent crude was up 1.03% at $92.39 per barrel, while West Texas Intermediate had gained 0.91% to trade at $89.00 per

REalloys (NASDAQ: ALOY) has signed an agreement that could give it priority access to up to 30% of production from a 2-billion-ton Appalachian rare earth resource network, expanding its growing pipeline of domestic and allied feedstock ahead of the Pentagon’s 2027 ban on Chinese-origin materials. The deal comes just two months after unveiling its buildout

For more than three months, oil market participants have hoped that the Middle East conflict would be resolved any day now, while about 13 million barrels per day (bpd) have been wiped off global supply due to the closed Strait of Hormuz. The oil futures market has been mostly guided by sentiment and traders’ hopes

Even as the International Monetary Fund warns of a global demand slowdown for critical minerals due to geopolitical shocks in the Middle East, the Democratic Republic of Congo is projecting confidence. For a country so deeply embedded in global commodity cycles, this calm not driven by complacency, but by strategy, which has put Kinshasa at

Data centers are placing unprecedented strain on electric grids across the country and across the world as the rapid integration of artificial intelligence into virtually every market sector unleashes an energy monster that we are woefully unprepared to feed. Meeting projected demand growth in coming months and years will require creative solutions and cutting-edge energy