Energy News Beat This is an outstanding article from Nathan Hammer’s Substack Hammer and Anvil. Every time you see a 400 foot wind turbine cutting through the sky, you are looking at a machine designed to harvest the wind. It feels clean. It feels weightless, like a piece of the future that has successfully severed […]
Energy News Beat The Strait of Hormuz — the world’s most critical oil chokepoint — remains at the center of global energy markets. A promising diplomatic window has opened, but it is far from sealed. Commodity trader and analyst Jack Prandelli captured the moment perfectly in a post today: “Iran’s ‘Hormuz weapon’ is real. But […]
Energy News Beat Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, has once again sounded alarms about mounting pressures on the US economy. In a recent Bloomberg Television interview and his April 2026 annual letter to shareholders, he highlighted vulnerabilities in leveraged corporate debt, the challenges of refinancing at elevated rates, geopolitical shocks from the Iran conflict, […]
Energy News Beat ENB Pub Note: This article was originally posted on the California Globe, and we highly recommend reading their site. We will be covering this opinion on the Jones Act on the next Energy News Beat Stand Up. California put itself in a dangerous position by relying heavily on expensive foreign oil rather […]
Energy News Beat The possibility of a full or partial US withdrawal from NATO has resurfaced in political debates, particularly amid shifting US priorities and rhetoric about burden-sharing. The United States provides the backbone of NATO’s conventional capabilities, command structures, intelligence, strategic enablers (air refueling, lift, ISR), and a significant portion of high-end equipment and […]
Energy News Beat The Wall Street Journal recently captured Germany’s predicament with brutal clarity in pieces like “Germany’s Slow Industrial Suicide.” A LinkedIn post by Doug Sheridan amplified the editorial, highlighting how green mandates, Net Zero zeal, and the Energiewende have delivered deindustrialization instead of the promised green nirvana. The ironic title nails it: Good […]
Energy News Beat Oil facilities at Russia’s strategically vital Black Sea port of Novorossiysk erupted in flames overnight after a Ukrainian drone attack, with satellite imagery confirming a significant blaze at the Grushovaya (also spelled Grushovaya Balka or Grushevaya) oil terminal/depot. The strike marks the latest escalation in Ukraine’s long-range drone campaign targeting Russian energy […]
Energy News Beat The upstream oil and gas sector stands on the cusp of a transformative opportunity. According to fresh analysis from Rystad Energy, digitalization and artificial intelligence could generate nearly $500 billion in cumulative value for Exploration & Production (E&P) companies between 2026 and 2030. This windfall would come through three main levers: cost […]
Energy News Beat AI’s Power Hunger, LNG Export Ambitions, and Whether America Can Keep Energy Affordable The United States stands at a pivotal moment in its energy story. President Trump has signaled aggressive plans to double U.S. LNG exports in roughly 3.5 years, while artificial intelligence data centers are driving explosive growth in electricity demand […]
Energy News Beat In a notable development signaling cautious thawing in one of the world’s most critical energy chokepoints, the Qatari LNG tanker Al Sahla is transiting the Strait of Hormuz today, heading directly to China’s Tianjin LNG terminal. Expected to arrive around June 14 with a cargo capacity of approximately 211,842 cubic meters, this […]
