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The Quiet Oil Rush Into Venezuela
While traders obsess over Hormuz, BP just handed Abu Dhabi and Qatar their first stake in Venezuela — a slower, structural bet that could matter more than any tanker standoff.
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Hormuz Empties, Oil Keeps Flowing
Official traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has collapsed to a handful of ships a day. A shadow fleet operating just outside it explains why oil prices haven't followed.
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Weekly Energy Market Recap: Aug 7 - Aug 14, 2026
This week in energy: Brent crude surged toward $100 a barrel as Hormuz attacks disrupted tanker traffic, Alaska's $50 billion LNG pipeline bill collapsed in the state legislature, and Boralex went private in a $6.5 billion Brookfield-led buyout. Key developments across oil, gas, renewables, and mining sectors.
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Mining Press Roundup: NioCorp's $4 Billion Nebraska Bet Reshapes the US Critical Minerals Map
NioCorp's upsized Elk Creek feasibility study anchors a critical-minerals-heavy news day that also brought a record copper squeeze, an Antofagasta profit beat clouded by Chile weather, and a fresh silver-buyback milestone from Pan American.
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Energy Stocks Race Past Crude's Standstill
Oil barely moved Tuesday, but energy stocks are flirting with overbought territory -- a sign the sector's rally has stopped waiting for crude to cooperate.
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Hormuz's Toll Washes Ashore in Oman
A grounded tanker's spreading oil slick threatens a protected whale sanctuary off Oman, laying bare the price of a Hormuz standoff still without an end date.
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Crude Falls, Fuel Stays High
Oil prices retreat as Iran talks advance, but refining shortages keep gasoline and diesel stubbornly expensive—and Congo just banned cobalt exports.
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Weekly Energy Market Recap: Jul 31 - Aug 7, 2026
This week in energy: Iran's parliament advances a plan to restrict Hormuz shipping as ADNOC reports 15 vessel attacks, Libya targets 2 million bpd oil output by the early 2030s, and gold surges to a seven-week high after a shockingly weak US jobs report. Key developments across oil, gas, renewables, and mining sectors.
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Mining Press Roundup: 3 Proton Lithium's Nevada Tungsten Discovery Faces NASA Land Dispute
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Exploration Stocks Break Higher as Majors Stumble and Clean Energy Extends Losses
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Copper Miners Defy Broad Energy Sector Selloff as Traditional Producers and Uranium Retreat in Tandem
Base metals producers carved out gains in an otherwise punishing session that saw integrated majors, exploration firms, and specialty energy metals decline together.
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Supermajors Break Ranks as Energy Complex Suffers Broad Decline Across Exploration and Specialty Metals
The energy sector fractured along unexpected fault lines as integrated oil giants diverged sharply from a widespread selloff that engulfed exploration producers, uranium miners, and clean technology segments.
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Energy Sector Splinters as Majors and Metals Diverge from Collapsing Exploration and Clean Technology
The energy complex fractured along structural lines as integrated producers and copper held firm while exploration, uranium, renewables, and precious metals miners retreated sharply.
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Beijing pours billions into renewables while Western majors sell solar assets and Brussels blinks on methane rules. The clean energy map is being redrawn.
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