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Global Diesel Crisis Boosts Petrobras’ Hot-Button Refining Plan — Just Like the US, It Depends on the Election

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A worldwide diesel crunch, driven by wartime disruptions, is giving fresh political momentum to Brazil’s state oil company Petrobras and its long-debated push for greater domestic refining. The same supply tightness is exposing the United States’ own refining constraints—constraints that have accumulated for decades and are heavily concentrated in states with stricter environmental rules. In […]

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The Two Grids: Why Policy is Breaking Physics

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Welcome back to the Energy Newsbeat podcast. Today, we’re diving deep into one of the most critical—and misunderstood—issues facing America’s energy future. Most people think the grid is just the wires and power plants they see. But what if I told you two grids are operating at the same time, and they’re increasingly working against […]

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Matador’s $1.3 B Paloma Deal is beating expectations

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Matador Resources closed its acquisition of EnCap-backed Paloma Permian on October 1, 2026, for $1.255 billion in cash, subject to customary post-closing adjustments. The deal, announced in July at a headline consideration of $1.275 billion, is already beating the company’s own underwriting on the producing wells, while adding a large block of high-quality undeveloped inventory […]

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Massachusetts Gov. Healey to feds: Step on the gas — after years of bragging she stopped the pipelines

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Governor Maura Healey is asking the Trump administration to move faster on a natural gas pipeline expansion she once made a political career out of opposing. The request landed on October 1, about a month before the November 2026 general election, in a letter to Energy Secretary Chris Wright urging federal agencies to clear reviews […]

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Tankers burning in Hormuz, and Secretary Wright is highly confident Europe will dump emergency diesel stocks

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Tankers are burning in the Strait of Hormuz, visible traffic through the waterway has collapsed to a fraction of normal levels, and U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright says he is “highly confident” Europe will draw down emergency diesel stocks to ease a global shortage. The combination is keeping a firm geopolitical premium in crude while […]

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