Archive for the 'Infrastructure' Category
The Nitrogen Trap
March 16th, 2026Via: Shanaka Anslem Perera: The world spent fifty years and hundreds of billions of dollars building Strategic Petroleum Reserves so that no geopolitical rupture could fully sever modern civilization from energy. The United States alone holds just over 400 million barrels of crude oil in salt caverns beneath the Gulf Coast. On March 11, 2026, […]
Secretary Hegseth on the Strait of Hormuz: DON’T WORRY ABOUT IT
March 13th, 2026There’s a disconnect between what U.S. leadership is saying and what’s happening on the ground, or, more accurately, on the water around Iran. U.S. military strategists still aren’t fully comprehending the paradigm changing impact of unmanned systems. They, mistakenly, thought that destroying Iran’s traditional naval capacity would be enough to keep the Strait of Hormuz […]
Two Tankers On Fire at Iraqi Port After Iran Attacks
March 11th, 2026Update: New Ayatollah’s First Message: Hormuz Strait Stays Closed, Warns ‘More Fronts’ Could Open — Via: Oilprice: Two oil tankers carrying Iraqi oil products caught fire Wednesday after being struck in Iraqi territorial waters near the country’s southern export terminals, according to Iraqi port officials and multiple media reports. The vessels, Vishnu, a Marshall Islands-flagged […]
Meet The Ellisons: Zionists, Technocrats, Moguls
March 11th, 2026Via: Corbett Report:
EMERGENCY: KUWAIT DECLARES FORCE MAJEURE, CUTS OIL PRODUCTION
March 7th, 2026Via: Bloomberg: Kuwait Petroleum declared force majeure — a legal clause allowing a company not to fulfill contractual obligations because of circumstances outside its control — on sales of oil and refinery products, according to a notice seen by Bloomberg. The country produced about 2.57 million barrels a day of oil in January, according to […]
EMERGENCY: ISRAEL ATTACKS IRAN’S OIL AND GAS FACILITIES
March 7th, 2026Perhaps this is also a war against China: China has emerged as the largest buyer of Iranian crude, importing more than 80% of Iran’s oil exports in 2025. This amounted to around 1.38 million barrels per day, roughly 13–14% of China’s total seaborne crude imports, according to Kpler. Tehran’s oil has limited buyers due to […]
OIL UP 38% SINCE START OF IRAN WAR
March 6th, 2026Via: Yahoo Finance: US oil prices notched their biggest weekly gain since at least 1985 on Friday as the conflict headed toward the one-week mark and the critical Strait of Hormuz remained essentially closed off to through-traffic. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude (CL=F) gained over 38% since the close of trading on Friday before […]
Iran Attacking Energy Facilities and Ports of Gulf Arab States
March 3rd, 2026Via: The War Zone: Iran appears to be increasingly focusing its retaliatory attacks against energy production infrastructure in Gulf Arab States. The U.S.-Israeli operation against Iran is also continuing at a significant tempo, including a major new wave of Israeli strikes going after leadership targets in Tehran. Readers can catch up on previous developments in […]
QATAR CEASES LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS PRODUCTION
March 2nd, 2026Via: OilPrice: Qatar’s state-owned energy giant QatarEnergy has stopped all liquefied natural gas (LNG) production, shutting down the country’s entire LNG output after Iranian drone strikes hit its major facilities at Ras Laffan and Mesaieed. The shutdown removes roughly 20% of the world’s LNG supply from the market and sends ripples through already volatile global […]
Who Domesticated Humans?
March 1st, 2026Via: The 5th Kind:
