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How Bad Would It Get If China Blocks Rare Earths to America? — Taiwan is the next pressure point that will test China's weaponization of rare earth metals. When Japan indicated it would not remain neutral in a Taiwan conflict, Beijing responded by sharply restric oilprice_com, 2026-10-21 00:00 UTC

Petrobras' Deepwater Push Sets Off a Race for Offshore Vessels — Recently, we reported that the Middle East conflict and subsequent closure of the Strait of Hormuz has triggered an unprecedented spike in freight and shipping rates, with Very Large Crude Carrier (VL oilprice_com, 2026-10-20 23:30 UTC

Mexico Poised to Approve $12.5 Billion in Renewable Energy Projects — Mexico’s state power utility is today set to greenlight as many as 60 alternative energy projects, most of them solar, that should add 8.2 GW in new generation capacity to the country’s total, accordi oilprice_com, 2026-10-20 23:00 UTC

Europe’s Power Demand Returns to Growth — Despite weakening industrial activity and high energy costs, European electricity demand is bucking years of flailing power consumption. Rising electrification rates and the data center boom are the k oilprice_com, 2026-10-20 22:00 UTC

Coast Guard Cutter Munro Wraps Up Arctic Patrol After Tracking Chinese Research Ships — The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Munro has returned to its homeport in Alameda, California, following a 112-day patrol across the Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean that included monitoring Chinese research... gcaptain, 2026-10-20 21:37 UTC

Army Corps Moves to Overhaul How U.S. Dredging Projects Are Awarded — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is overhauling how it manages dredging contracts nationwide, moving toward a centralized approach intended to reduce costs, improve scheduling and make better use of.. gcaptain, 2026-10-20 21:22 UTC

Natural Gas Spot Prices Find Strength Where Futures Falter — Natural gas spot prices strengthened across Appalachia and the Northeast on Tuesday, bucking a sharp decline in futures amid warmer weather forecasts and uncertainty over the timing of winter heating natgas_intel, 2026-10-20 21:08 UTC

Energy Costs Are Driving U.S. Inflation, and Wages Aren't Keeping Up — Inflation rates remain blistering high across the United States. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’s most recent Consumer Price Index, released last week, revealed numbers that were higher than most proj oilprice_com, 2026-10-20 21:00 UTC

API: Crude, Product Inventories Continue to Draw — The American Petroleum Institute (API) estimated that crude oil inventories in the United States fell by 4.93 million barrels in the week ending October 16. In the week prior, US crude oil inventories oilprice_com, 2026-10-20 20:56 UTC

Oil Slips as Iran Talks Fuel Volatility — Oil retreated from five-month highs amid uncertain Iran negotiations and volatile trading. rigzone, 2026-10-20 20:47 UTC

The Middle East's Next Energy Boom Has Nothing to Do With Oil — A new Middle East energy system came into view at the Energy Trading Week Middle East conference in Dubai last month. The region’s world’s-lowest costs for solar energy appeared with enormous potentia oilprice_com, 2026-10-20 20:00 UTC

Halliburton Sees Years of Growth as Mideast Rebuilds — Halliburton Co. is predicting years of growing demand for oil field services as nations in the Middle East rebuild energy assets and infrastructure. rigzone, 2026-10-20 20:00 UTC

Oil prices fall as traders hope for diplomatic progress in Middle East — Developments in the Middle East remain in focus, with attacks on commercial ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz escalating in recent weeks. cnbc_energy, 2026-10-20 19:40 UTC

The Winter Waiting Game Gets Costlier for Natural Gas Bulls — Natural gas futures extended their decline Tuesday, with the prompt-month contract slipping below $3.000/MMBtu amid warmer weather forecasts and expectations that storage injections could continue wel natgas_intel, 2026-10-20 19:05 UTC

One Kurdish Peace Deal Could Ignite Another Middle Eastern Conflict — In October 2025, the PKK (Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê, Kurdistan Workers' Party) announced it was withdrawing its fighters from Türkiye to northern Iraq as part of a peace effort with Ankara after fou oilprice_com, 2026-10-20 19:00 UTC

What AI in Energy Week Revealed About Energy Leaders' AI Priorities — AI in Energy Week 2026 brought together 131 energy leaders to explore scaling AI from pilots to operations. oilgas_iq, 2026-10-20 18:47 UTC

Norway's Gas Production Plunges 12.6% as Europe Heads into Winter — Norway’s oil and gas production declined sharply in September, with natural gas output falling 12.6% from August, according to preliminary figures released Tuesday by the Norwegian Offshore Directorat oilprice_com, 2026-10-20 18:31 UTC

Halliburton ‘Quite Excited’ About North America Despite Fracking Slump — Halliburton is seeing signs of tightening hydraulic fracturing capacity and improving pricing in North America, raising expectations for a potential recovery in 2027 despite weaker third quarter activ natgas_intel, 2026-10-20 18:29 UTC

Geothermal Just Proved It Can Compete With Solar-Plus-Storage on Price — Geothermal has long been the clean, firm power source that was always a few breakthroughs away from being cheap enough to matter. Numbers buried in a Nevada utility filing suggest that day may have ar oilprice_com, 2026-10-20 18:00 UTC

Iran Claims More Tankers Hit Mines in Hormuz, But Evidence Remains Elusive — Iran’s Revolutionary Guards claimed Tuesday that a supertanker caught fire after striking a naval mine south of the Strait of Hormuz, adding to a series of similar claims that have... gcaptain, 2026-10-20 17:46 UTC

EU Stands Firm Against Arctic Oil and Gas Drilling Despite Energy Crisis — The European Union reaffirmed its opposition to Arctic oil and gas development on Tuesday, even as the bloc prepares for another expensive winter with depleted gas storage and prices approaching level oilprice_com, 2026-10-20 17:45 UTC

Mild Europe, Asia Forecasts Limit Weather-Driven Demand for US LNG — Weather forecasts Tuesday pointed to below-normal heating demand in Europe and a largely near-seasonal pattern in North Asia into early November, limiting weather-driven demand for US LNG. natgas_intel, 2026-10-20 17:31 UTC

After 354 Accidents, Shipping Industry Urged to Rethink Enclosed Space Safety — A new survey of more than 900 seafarers has exposed a persistent gap between safety procedures and the realities of working aboard ships, prompting renewed calls for action to prevent... gcaptain, 2026-10-20 17:27 UTC

DOE Taps Defense Production Act Funds to Help Pay for Early Work on Constitution Pipeline — The US Department of Energy (DOE) said this week it would utilize a war-time law to use up to $42 million to help advance Williams’ Constitution Pipeline proposed to carry Appalachian natural gas to t natgas_intel, 2026-10-20 17:21 UTC

Argentina LNG Targets 2027 Exports as Global Buyers Seek Supply Diversity — Argentina is on track to export its first LNG by the end of 2027, according to developer Southern Energy CCO Matias Lacabanne. natgas_intel, 2026-10-20 17:08 UTC

Global LNG market faces demand cuts as Hormuz disruptions strain supply — Ongoing disruptions in LNG shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, driven by regional conflicts and attacks, are tightening global gas markets with limited alternative supplies, potentially extending ogj, 2026-10-20 17:08 UTC

Chevron Moves to Take Over Russia's Most Prized Iraqi Oil Field — Back in February, U.S. oil and gas giant Chevron signed four preliminary agreements with Iraq’s Oil Ministry, which underscored that from that point onwards, Washington was determined to regain its in oilprice_com, 2026-10-20 17:00 UTC

Russia’s Oil Export Revenue Slides as Production Declines — Russia’s seaborne crude exports fell to their lowest four-week average in a month after shipments from the Baltic port of Primorsk stopped for several days, according to tanker-tracking data compiled oilprice_com, 2026-10-20 16:30 UTC

Trump’s Plan to Revive Sanctioned Tankers Faces Tough Sell — (Bloomberg) — A US plan to rehabilitate sanctioned tankers to boost oil supply may attract only a sliver of the dark fleet, as existing contracts, complex compliance checks and sky-high... gcaptain, 2026-10-20 16:27 UTC

Iran Strikes More Ship Engine Rooms in Ramp-Up of Hormuz Attacks — Iranian attacks in the Persian Gulf are striking more ships and causing more severe damage than earlier in the conflict, bringing fresh risks to energy flows from the region. gcaptain, 2026-10-20 16:20 UTC