On October 14, 2026, President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that “Massive Oil, Gas, and Mineral Exploration is getting ready to begin in our new and beautiful Greenland.” He added that experts claim the amount of easily available oil is far greater than that of almost any land anywhere in the world, and that […]
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Diesel is $6.30 a gallon, $2.64 more than a year ago. The International Energy Agency now says the world’s diesel shortage runs “well into 2027.” We checked three clocks, the futures market, the government forecast and the IEA, to estimate how long $6 diesel can hang on, and who pays while it does. Our answer, […]
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ENB Pub Note: This article is from America OutLoud, by Ronald Stein and Mike Ariza. Both have been on the Energy News Beat Podcast, and we recommend reading their work. California is the 4th largest economy in the world and an “ENERGY ISLAND that is separated from the other 48 continental States by the Rocky […]
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Chinese refiners are set to slow the pace of inventory drawdowns this month as crude imports recover, according to Energy Aspects. More overseas crude is expected to arrive from November, allowing China to preserve its substantial stockpile buffer against further supply disruptions. Analyst Jianan Sun of Energy Aspects noted that recent purchases of Iraqi and […]
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Hurricane Isaias, the first hurricane of the 2026 Atlantic season, made landfall near Destin in the Florida Panhandle on the evening of October 9 as a Category 2 storm. It prompted extensive precautionary shut-ins of offshore oil and natural gas production in the Gulf of America before tracking eastward and largely sparing major refining centers. […]
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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy said on Monday, October 12–13, 2026, that it struck a third “violating” or “offending” supertanker in the Strait of Hormuz within roughly 48 hours, sparking an onboard fire. The IRGC stated the vessel had switched off its navigation systems, ignored warnings, and attempted to exit via an unauthorized […]
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Diesel costs $2.60 a gallon more than it did a year ago, and Election Day is three weeks out. The White House wants Ukraine to stop hitting Russian refineries so Russia can sell diesel again. Moscow has not confirmed the truce, a Kharkiv power plant was hit within hours, and a bipartisan group of senators […]
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Newly released footage shows the moment a Houthi strike hit King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on Saturday, October 10, 2026, in an attack that killed at least 13 people and wounded more than 300—the deadliest assault on Saudi soil in more than a decade. The escalation has prompted U.S. President Donald Trump to state […]
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The U.S. Department of Energy on October 10, 2026, authorized an emergency exchange of up to 4 million barrels of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to address supply disruptions from hurricane activity in the Gulf of America. Source –Energy ExxonMobil and BP America each received authority for up to 2 million barrels. […]
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has highlighted a core contradiction in Europe’s energy policy amid ongoing debates over Russian diesel supplies. In comments tied to a Trump administration arrangement for Russian diesel releases (initially 300,000 tonnes, with more to follow) to ease prices amid broader supply pressures, Bessent stated that Europe has transferred more money […]
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