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La Administración Trump endurece sus medidas contra el petróleo venezolano. En 2024, Washington reinstauró el régimen de sanciones sobre Venezuela tras seis meses de suspensión y ante el incumplimiento de Caracas de los Acuerdos de Barbados. Ignacio Urbasos realinstitutoelcano.org/analisis/el-re…

🇷🇺🚢↔️🚢Russia Conducts Rare Double Ship-to-Ship Transfer to Circumvent Latest EU Sanctions Days after EU banned transshipment of LNG, Russia deployed 4 LNGC for unusual double STS transfer at Kildin near Murmansk. gCaptain Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) 🚢⚓🐪🚒🏴‍☠️ John Ʌ Konrad V gcaptain.com/russia-conduct…

Here are our latest stats on the global Dark Fleet of tankers: Blacklisted by US OFAC: 529 Still not blacklisted: 530 Total number of naughties: 1059 Breakdown by deadweight size class (blacklisted vs not blacklisted) VLCC/ULCC: 112 vs 111 Suezmax: 63 vs 76 Aframax: 163 vs 133

Sanctioned Russian LNG plant coming back to life? 🇷🇺 ⚠️ Satellite images show Arctic LNG 2 was flaring gas on March 30, suggesting a possible restart 🛑 The facility shut large-scale production in Oct due in part to sanctions, which buyers havent been willing to circumvent

#USsanctions may cut Iranian crude imports by #China’s independent refineries in April ▪️#Iraniancrude intake hits record 1.91 million b/d in March ▪️Momentum could slow in April on tougher sanctions ▪️Private terminals continue to receive sanctioned ships Read

Les juntes militaires du #Mali, du #Niger et du #BurkinaFaso retirent leurs ambassadeurs d'#Alger. Les trois pays du #SahelLeaks protestent contre la destruction par l'armée de l'#Algérie, le 1er avril, d'un drone qui avait pénétré dans l'espace aérien algérien depuis le Mali.

#Libya’s NOC hosts an event in London for its first upstream licensing round in almost two decades #OOTT

I think these were the very last ones. No one has permission from Uncle Sam to do business with Venezuelan gas and oil. Now only those who don't need permission (Russia, China, Iran) will remain.

In recent days, Dany Bahar and Ricardo Hausmann made a surprising and counterintuitive claim: that lifting sanctions on Venezuela would increase migration to the US by strengthening Maduro. Today, we’re publishing a response. 🧵cepr.net/publications/d…

If a peace deal is reached in Ukraine, will Russian energy return to Europe? Four reasons why this is highly unlikely.✍️ Ignacio Urbasos realinstitutoelcano.org/en/analyses/th…

🆕Hoy, en nuestro podcast, #ConversacionesElcano, hablamos con Josep Borrell Fontelles sobre el papel de Europa en un mundo en cambio. A los mandos, nuestros investigadores Ignacio Urbasos y Marta Driessen. Pasen y escuchen 👇👇👇👇👇

China’s solar panel exports to global south have overtaken global north after more than doubling in two years

China’s domestic oil production surged to an all-time high of ~4.5 million barrels per day (19.03 million tonnes) in March, according to official statistics. The data feels a bit too hot, but if confirmed, the message is clear: “drill, baby, drill” is happening in China | #OOTT

We have visually confirmed to clients that a fourth load of crude oil has reached #Syria from #Russia. Comparing the YoY numbers, Russia is almost filling the void left by #Iran. No deliveries so far from any of the Arab nations. #OOTT

"Malaysian" crude oil imports by China reached a record high of 2.03mbpd in March. China only bought 2 VLCCs the whole month from US and were purchased before Trump took office.

Inusuales protestas en Marruecos en contra de la entrega de armas a Israel. Como lleva señalando Ignacio Cembrero desde hace meses, la sociedad marroquí se ha movilizado excepcionalmente por Gaza y no parece estar alineada con la diplomacia pro-israelí del Majzen. ¿Reculará Rabat?

Dirigida a reducir la confianza ciudadana en instituciones y destruir consensos, los riesgos de la #desinformación para las democracias son bien conocidos. ¿Quiénes son los principales actores del fenómeno? 🎙️ Marta Driessen Ignacio Urbasos #ConversacionesElcano realinstitutoelcano.org/podcast/conver…

No es un mal día para aprender sobre desinformación y bulos con Angel Badillo

🇷🇺🚢flagRussia Reflags, Renames Sanctioned ‘Shadow Fleet’ LNG Tankers 👻Four ice-strengthened LNG carriers have been reflagged to the Russian Federation along with name changes. ✅ Could signal preparations to re-launch ALNG2. gcaptain.com/russia-reflags…

Our latest paper w/ Alina Averchenkova & Lara Lázaro Touza ‘Beyond leading by example: enhanced EU-LAC climate cooperation—the case of Brazil, Chile and Mexico’ in Int. Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics Open access! link.springer.com/article/10.100……