Every Magna Bureau story on energy: 43 articles, investigations and analysis in one place.
Four years after a war that killed hundreds of thousands, Ethiopia is fighting in Tigray again — and this time the internet went dark first.
NewsCopper smelter fees collapsed to historic lows. Western miners ship raw ore east because domestic smelters cannot afford to run.
NewsOne closed valve has cut Libya's biggest oilfield by two-thirds. In a world already short of oil, the Petroleum Facilities Guard just reminded everyone…
NewsNine months ago the OECD expected inflation to converge and AI to save growth. Now it sees sticky prices, an AI capex bubble, and trade policy as pure…
NewsIndia and OPEC just held their seventh energy dialogue in New Delhi. The subtext: the world's fastest-growing oil customer is done being a price-taker.
NewsTwenty million barrels a day through one strait. Spare capacity, shadow fleets, and war-risk insurance. A three-perspective investigation.
NewsThe EU wants to triple its data-center capacity while labeling how much water and power each one drinks.
NewsThe rebels have seized the strategic Hanish islands and Mayun island at the Bab el-Mandeb's mouth.
NewsReuters tallies show visible tanker traffic through the strait at single digits and freight rates at records.
NewsTehran's offer at the UN: lift the naval blockade, waive oil sanctions, ceasefire — and Hormuz reopens in seven days. Trump says he said no. The full terms.
NewsEU storage sits at 70% — twelve points below last year — and the energy commissioner is telling governments to dim the lights and cool the radiators. With Hormuz blocked and prices near triple their p
NewsThe American president rejected Iran's proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for halting US strikes. Oil jumped 3%, Kuwait intercepted Iranian drones, and the mediator channel kept runni
NewsAustralia's central bank lifted its cash rate to 4.60% on Tuesday — the highest since 2011 — citing a broadening Middle East conflict and rising energy costs. Unanimous, unsentimental, and very possib
NewsBrent rose for a second straight session past $105 while Gulf crude exports hit 12.8 million barrels a day, the highest since February. The diplomats talked; the tankers found another way.
NewsUnder Operation Delta Sentinel, the Nigerian Navy recovered 33,800 litres of stolen petroleum products and shut two illegal refining sites in Rivers State. The theft economy is old; the pressure is ne
NewsThe president called oil palm a 'miracle crop' as Indonesia locks in the world's first B50 biodiesel mandate, ends diesel imports, and moves to monopolize palm exports under the state. Fifty-seven pro
NewsFlash PMI hit its strongest since October 2025, institutes raised the 2026 forecast to 1.3%, and Merz cut fuel tax from October 1. Europe's engine is turning over.
NewsFed Governor Lisa Cook told economists in Oakland that rising oil prices and AI-driven price pressure are 'material risks' to the disinflation story — weeks after the Fed's first rate cut in three yea
NewsNicosia and Jerusalem aim to close the Aphrodite-Ishai compensation deal by end-October, while Chevron pushes engineering toward a final investment decision. A sliver of reservoir, a decade of diploma
NewsThe Wall Street bank expects the central bank to start cutting on Oct 22 and take the policy rate to 35% by year-end — if September CPI lands near 2.2% monthly. Energy prices, up 6%, are the swing ris
NewsSeven producers keep October output flat ahead of the Oct 4 meeting — Saudi Arabia at 10.478 million barrels a day. But the real negotiation is the 2027 quota architecture, and whether spare capacity
NewsGross sales from Leviathan, Tamar and Karish hit $1.46 billion in Q2, up 44% on the quarter. The Eastern Mediterranean's gas machine is now a fiscal pillar — and a diplomatic one.
NewsTreasury Secretary Bessent says Tehran's last sanctioned crude deliveries will reach China within two weeks. Operation Economic Outcast has run since July 14 — and this is what the end of an oil empir
NewsBrent punched through $107, the 10-year Treasury hit its highest since 2007, and October Fed-hike odds jumped past 70% — while Washington and Tehran…
NewsUK diesel has broken £2 a litre — the national index reads 200.3p, the RAC calls a record, and Trump is weighing a 90-day suspension of US diesel exports to…
NewsDonald Trump told Axios he expects talks with Tehran this week — days after rejecting Iran's plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. His logic is patience as…
NewsA BlackRock-backed consortium is in exclusive talks to buy Stack Infrastructure's Asia-Pacific data centers for up to $25B — the biggest bet yet that AI's…
NewsQatari mediators held separate talks with both sides on Monday; Iran's foreign minister expects Washington's answer by Tuesday night — while Middle East…
NewsParliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf drew the line on Tuesday — as a ship took fire in the Strait of Hormuz, Qatar called the war's toll…
NewsBrent fell roughly 2.5% to $102.59 on Tuesday as Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline returned to half flow and Trump rejected Tehran's seven-day ceasefire proposal — while Washington moved to loan 40 million barrels from a
NewsThe president torpedoed an Axios report that he would trade sanctions relief for nuclear concessions. Brent is up 14% this month — and Qatar's shuttle diplomacy just got harder.
NewsSpodumene fetched US$2,105 a tonne — up 92% in three months. The miner raised output guidance across iron ore, lithium and mining services, and the ASX battery boom is back.
NewsEl Niño has starved a Sulawesi smelter of hydropower, idling its furnaces. BMS is sending workers home on $84 a month — a parable of the nickel boom's fragility.
NewsSeptember prices hit multiyear highs across the eurozone's big economies, all of it energy. Lagarde preaches a "measured response" — but markets are pricing four more hikes.
NewsAtlasIntel has Bolsonaro a tenth of a point ahead in a simulated runoff; BTG/Nexus has Lula ahead by two. The first round is Sunday — and 5,000 interviews say nobody knows.
NewsSeven dead, including a child. Emergency blackouts in Kyiv for the first time since spring. As winter approaches, Moscow is back to targeting the grid — and Ukraine's air defenses are stretched thin.
NewsThe Debt Management Office sold £4.25bn of ten-year gilts at an average yield of 5.383%, the highest auction rate since 1999. Demand held — but the price of the British state's debt keeps climbing.
NewsProducers are expected to freeze November quotas at Sunday's meeting while Saudi Arabia pumps 3.5 million barrels a day through its desert pipeline, bypassing a shuttered Strait of Hormuz.
NewsHaffner Energy will market the renewable hydrogen produced at its Marolles plant through a new refuelling station — a small announcement, and a signal that Europe's hydrogen economy is finally learnin
NewsThe Taibah station was hit at 5:11 am Tuesday, knocking one transformer out of service; the coalition calls it a Houthi 'terrorist act' against the holy cities, the Houthis call it a lie — the gravest
NewsThe UNDP chief warns that rising energy costs, a record El Niño and multi-decade borrowing highs are pushing developing countries toward pandemic-era distress — just as the IMF and World Bank head to
NewsRussia has hit Kyiv's Southern Bridge two days running; Ukraine has answered at a Volgograd refinery. The trenches are quiet. The infrastructure is the front.
NewsOn Beijing's orders, Chinese refiners have suspended all October fuel exports beyond Hong Kong and Macau. PetroChina is canceling cargoes, Asia's diesel squeeze is deepening, and the world is learning
