Russia’s Lavrov Says US Seeking Control of Nord Stream Gas Pipelines
spent years trying to piece together the mystery of who was behind it and last year a Ukrainian man was arrested in Italy on suspicion of coordinating the attacks.Speaking to France Televisions on Thursday, Lavrov said the U.S. has been striving to dominate over the global energy markets, citing Venezuela, where Washington has effectively taken under control the world's largest oil reserves, as well as Iran."The United States is also now saying that it wants to take over the Nord Stream pipelines," Lavrov said according to the text of the interview published by Russia's foreign
Experts Discuss Maritime Security Risks
; Greek-managed oil tankers hit by drone strikes near the CPC terminal off Novorossiysk• A Panama-flagged vessel struck by a Russian UAV, injuring one crew member• A cargo vessel sunk in the Caspian Sea, all 14 crew rescued• Americas – U.S. forces seized a Guyana-flagged tanker near Venezuela as part of ongoing shadow-fleet enforcement• Armed robbers boarded a bulk carrier, stealing engine spare parts• A second attempt targeted a barge under tow in the eastbound TSS lane.The maritime security environment is evolving, and the January issue of Maritime Reporter magazine features
A Graveyard for Glaciers
sculptor Ottó Magnússon were placed in a windswept field by the sea to create, before they melted away, a Glacier Graveyard. The headstones bore the names of glaciers from around the world that are lost or waning due to global warming.Among them were:• Pico Humboldt, the last of Venezuela's glaciers, now gone• Anderson Glacier, in Washington U.S., disappeared in 2011• Kilimanjaro, the final remaining glacier in Africa• Aujuittuq in Canada: its Inuit name means "A place that never thaws" although it is now thawing.Projections indicate that one-third of
TDI-Brooks Completes Trinidad Geotechnical Project
TDI-Brooks reportst that it "effectively and safely" carried out a third-party geotechnical coring project for Geohidra. This operation was conducted from the DRAGON Field to the HIBISCUS platform off the coast of Venezuela and Trinidad aboard the DONA JOSE II (DJII). Throughout this campaign, TDI-Brooks performed a total of eighteen (18) Cone Penetration Tests (CPTs) utilizing their Neptune 3,000 miniature coiled rod CPT system, achieving penetration depths between 3.25 and 6.25 meters in water depths of 130 to 150 meters. Additionally, eighteen (18) Box Core samples and eighteen Cyclic
Trinidad and Venezuela Set to Launch Seismic Survey at Joint Gas Fields
Seismic work at offshore gas fields shared by Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago is expected to start in the coming days, the Caribbean country's energy minister Stuart Young said on Friday on social media.Venezuela in July issued a 20-year license allowing the development of its side of the reservoir, the Cocuina field. The U.S. earlier this year also authorized the project, to be developed by Britain's BP and Trinidad's National Gas Company.The Cocuina and Manakin fields, whose Venezuelan portion belongs to the idled offshore gas project Plataforma Deltana, has 1 trillion cubic feet of
OPINION: Potable Water “on-the-cheap” in La Guajira, Colombia?
human life because billions people worldwide are experiencing fresh water shortages. The shortages are certain to worsen in the coming decades.The humanitarian crisis in Colombia’s La Guajira province (about 600 miles north of Bogota) is ample testimony. Between Northeast Colombia and Northwest Venezuela, La Guajira is a dry and windy peninsular desert with a breathtaking ochre and aquamarine coastline. The province is (about half of the size of New York) mainly populated by Colombia’s largest ethnic community, which includes nearly 300,000 members of the Wayúu ancestral tribe.For
Scientists Come Closer to Solving Caribbean Seaweed Mystery
, Lapointe told Reuters, in a sequence he calls “a double whammy.”Experts note that peak Amazon River flooding pushes a plume of nutrients hundreds of kilometers out to sea in March and April, coinciding with major sargassum blooms. From there, currents push the seaweed around the coast of Venezuela into the Caribbean Sea and sometimes even farther north into the Gulf of Mexico.Climate change is also fueling stronger hurricanes, which at sea are pulling more nutrients up from the seabed to potentially fertilize sargassum.African dust and ashScientists have also theorized that dust from the
Vontobel and Candriam back Belize's barrier reef 'superbond' buyback
of Belize's GDP.The debt plan is by no means a done deal, however.M&G Investments, which holds 3.5% of the bond according to the EMAXX data, declined to comment while Austria's Kepler Fonds, which owns around 2%, said it was undecided for now.Roughly 10% is also effectively held by Venezuela which may not be able to put in its vote as it is under U.S. sanctions and the money would need to go through the U.S. financial system.Under the proposed deal, eligible holders who tender their bonds will receive 55 cents for every $1 in outstanding principal.The 45% "haircut", as bankers
U.S. to send envoy to Saudi Arabia to Stabilize Oil Prices
to come on board with OPEC's continued efforts to bolster prices, and the country's largest oil producer, Rosneft, has been an opponent of the deal with OPEC to cut supply. Units of Rosneft, and its managers, were recently sanctioned by the United States due to its trade relationship with Venezuela.Trump administration officials will continue to reduce global oil output with sanctions on what the officials called bad actors in Iran and Venezuela, both of which are OPEC members, and their shipping networks, the officials said. To the extent that Russia is involved in marketing Venezuelan oil
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