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Europe is heading into winter with gas storage at the lowest level in yearsEuropean gas storage sits at historic lows for this point in the season, a position that leaves the continent with far less buffer than it had going into the last two winters when Russian pipeline …Pakistan's biggest copper mine is a hostage situation nowA Chinese-backed copper project sitting on one of the world's largest untapped reserves is threatening to shut down over security risk, and that single sentence should worry anyone pricing global c…Hormuz disruption is rewriting Asia's energy mix in real timeJapan is switching gas capacity to coal because LNG cannot get through a choked Strait of Hormuz, and that single operational decision tells you more about energy security than a year of policy pap…Putin admits Russia has fuel shortages. That is a significant concession about the cost of the war.A Russian president publicly acknowledging domestic fuel supply problems is not a routine data point. Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian refineries have forced the admission, and the operational lo…Aramco helicopter crashes at Saudi portAn Aramco helicopter came down at a Saudi Arabian port facility. No production disruption has been reported and the incident does not appear to affect oil output or export logistics at this stage.Standard Nuclear has filed for an IPO. It sells fuel, not reactors, and that distinction matters.Standard Nuclear's NYSE filing under ticker STDN is the most interesting nuclear IPO in the current pipeline precisely because it targets the supply-chain chokepoint rather than the headline techno…The DOJ just turned an air-permit violation into a national security argumentWhen the federal government files to protect 46 unpermitted gas turbines on the grounds that they power systems used in military operations, the boundary between environmental law and industrial po…Alberta proposes 1m barrel pipeline 'corridor' to bypass tanker banThe province will submit a general corridor concept to Ottawa's Major Projects Office by July 1 rather than a fixed route for its proposed northern BC pipeline. Indigenous Relations Minister Rajan …Japan's plastic addiction creates supply risk as Iran tensions mountJapan generates 129kg of plastic waste per person annually, heavily dependent on petrochemical feedstocks from the Gulf that transit the Strait of Hormuz. Tokyo Bay anchovies show 80% plastic parti…UK cuts Russian oil cap as US eases sanctionsThe UK lowered its oil price cap on Russian crude from $60 to $47.60 per barrel while the US temporarily loosened restrictions for 30 days to contain fuel prices amid Iran-related supply disruption…Putin locks in 50bcm gas pipeline as China hedges its betsRussia and China signed a binding construction agreement for the Power of Siberia-2 pipeline during Putin's Beijing visit, but the fine print tells a different story. The deal carries 50 billion cu…Asia enters AI infrastructure supercycle worth $16 trillionMorgan Stanley's Asia team is calling a new industrial supercycle as the region's fixed investment heads toward $16 trillion by 2030, driven by AI infrastructure, energy transition, and defense spe…CIA chief visits Havana as Cuba faces 22-hour blackoutsCIA Director John Ratcliffe met senior Cuban intelligence officials in Havana Thursday, with CBS reporting he delivered a message that the US was prepared to expand engagement if Havana made fundam…Trump rules out oil export curbs as Iran war drives pricesTrump administration officials explicitly ruled out restricting US oil exports despite surging global demand from the Iran conflict. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum told American Petroleum Institute…New Zealand pushes US on Pacific fuel promises as crisis deepensForeign Minister Winston Peters told Washington to turn "rhetoric into reality" on fuel supply support for Pacific nations, specifically requesting tanker deployments. Pacific Islands depend on oil…UAE offers oil buyers Fujairah pickup as Hormuz alternatives hit capacityAbu Dhabi is directing customers to load crude outside the Strait of Hormuz for the first time in the current crisis, acknowledging that bypass routes are maxing out. ADNOC informed term buyers the…Iran closes Strait of Hormuz as oil breaks $80Twenty percent of global oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz, and Iran just shut it down again. European gas futures jumped 12 percent overnight after Iranian forces seized what Trump claims was…China revives coal-to-gas as energy security trumps climateBeijing is restarting mothballed coal-to-gas projects after years of pushing clean energy alternatives, marking the clearest sign yet that energy security now outranks climate commitments. The reve…