In this episode of the Energy News Beat Podcast, host Stu Turley sits down with Christo Liebenberg, President, Co-Founder, and Chief Technical Advisor of LIS Technologies, to explore one of the most promising solutions to America’s nuclear fuel crisis. As global demand for nuclear power accelerates—driven by AI data centers, electrification, and climate imperatives—the U.S. […]
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Saudi Arabia’s capital came under direct threat early Saturday as air-raid alerts sounded over Riyadh and explosions were heard, followed by a large plume of black smoke rising from a fuel storage depot at King Khalid International Airport. The incident marks the first time Houthi attacks have visibly affected the Saudi capital since fighting with […]
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Energy News Beat | September 19, 2026 The world’s long-haul crude system is running out of the ships that make it work. Bloomberg reported today that soaring freight costs are already making some distant crude trades uneconomic, with barely any Very Large Crude Carriers left for hire in parts of the market. That shortage is […]
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President Donald Trump announced Friday, September 18, 2026, that the United States, Denmark, and Greenland have reached an agreement granting the U.S. “permanent control over security and all other needs” in Greenland. The deal stops short of any transfer of territory. Danish and Greenlandic leaders confirmed the outlines and said the three governments expect to […]
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Energy News Beat | September 18, 2026JPMorgan’s commodities desk just did something Wall Street almost never does in public. It took the baseline off the table. In the September 17 Oil Markets Weekly note, titled “Dry powder,” Natasha Kaneva, Lyuba Savinova, and Artem Fakhredtinov wrote the line that has been circulating all day: “For the […]
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Energy News Beat — September 18, 2026 A drone struck a cooling tower at Russia’s Kursk Nuclear Power Plant early Thursday, September 17, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency, in the most serious confirmed hit on an operating Russian nuclear unit since the war began. The incident landed three days after President Donald Trump […]
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Aramco’s East-West pipeline outage leaves European term buyers with a zero allocation for October. Crude is being rerouted to Asia. Products, not barrels, remain the tighter market. Saudi Aramco has told European term customers they will receive no crude in October under long-term contracts, according to people familiar with the decision cited by Bloomberg and […]
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In this episode of Energy Newsbeat, host Stu Turley and energy industry expert Rey Trevino tackle the perfect storm facing America’s energy sector. With diesel prices hitting record highs, critical refineries offline, and geopolitical tensions threatening global oil supplies, the hosts dissect nine major energy stories that reveal how decades of regulatory missteps and policy […]
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The United States is not short of crude oil. It is short of spare refining capacity, spare distillate inventory, and spare time. Diesel is the pressure point. National retail diesel is printing all-time highs near $6.40 a gallon. California is above $8.30. Midwest pump prices are breaking state records after ExxonMobil’s Joliet refinery in Illinois […]
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One of the Midwest’s most important diesel and gasoline plants is still dark. ExxonMobil’s Joliet refinery in unincorporated Channahon Township, Illinois — about 40 miles southwest of Chicago — remains offline after a Sunday power outage and a subsequent flood that overwhelmed a pump. ZeroHedge flagged the outage overnight as “one of the largest diesel […]
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