Energy News Beat NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) delivered another blockbuster quarter, reporting record revenue of $81.6 billion for its first quarter of fiscal 2027 (ended April 26, 2026). This represents a robust ~20% sequential increase from Q4 FY2026’s $68.1 billion and an impressive ~85% year-over-year jump. The results significantly beat Wall Street expectations (consensus around $79–79.2 […]
Energy News Beat Wall Street has a blind spot the size of a supertanker — and it’s called the energy sector. In a recent wide-ranging interview on Kitco News, veteran investor Ted Oakley, founder and managing partner of Oxbow Advisors, sat down with anchor Jeremy Szafron and delivered a blunt assessment: Wall Street is completely […]
Energy News Beat The United States has stepped into an extraordinary role amid the 2026 Iran conflict and disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz: the world’s primary swing supplier of crude oil and refined products. Record exports are helping offset massive global supply shortfalls, but this “filling station” status comes with clear limits—depleting strategic reserves, […]
Energy News Beat As the conflict between Iran and the U.S.-led coalition intensifies, Tehran is signaling a dangerous new front: the world’s undersea fiber-optic cables. Iranian state-linked media has explicitly warned that the concentration of critical data cables in the Strait of Hormuz creates a “vulnerable point” for the region’s digital economy — and by […]
Energy News Beat The numbers don’t lie. In just the first ~50 days after the Trump administration’s March 17, 2026, Jones Act waiver for energy products and fertilizer, 45 voyages moved cargo on 35 foreign-flagged vessels across more than 30 U.S. ports and a dozen-plus cargo types. This wasn’t foreign ships stealing work from American […]
Energy News Beat U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced on May 19 that the Blue Point low-carbon ammonia project in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, is advancing rapidly under streamlined permitting. The roughly $3.7–4 billion facility is expected to become the world’s largest ammonia production plant by nameplate capacity. According to Secretary Rollins’ post on X, […]
Energy News Beat A South Korean-flagged Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) is making headlines today as it navigates the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz, marking the first such transit by a vessel from the East Asian nation since the onset of the 2026 Iran-related conflict and maritime disruptions. The Universal Winner (IMO 9837602, MMSI 440274000), […]
Energy News Beat Global energy markets are fixated on the Strait of Hormuz once again. Amid the ongoing Iran conflict that has disrupted one of the world’s most critical chokepoints, India is preparing to send oil tankers through the strait to load energy cargoes from Middle East suppliers — the first such move since the […]
