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U.S. oil major listed among Venezuela's creditors; its CEO called the country 'uninvestible.'
China has suspended refined fuel exports with its refiners at about 75% of capacity and US plants at 97%. Any extra diesel now depends on Beijing, while Washington weighs an export ban that would push higher prices onto other importers.
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Exxon Mobil and Suncor argue that the Constitution's structure bars Boulder's climate-cost suit from state court, in a case the Supreme Court hears October 5. Vox reports they cite no clause of the text, so the case tests the justices' textualism as much as Boulder's claim.
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The National Assembly named Steve Hanke special adviser and told him to write a full dollarization law. He puts the odds of passage at 50% to 80%.
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Carlyle agreed to pay $22 billion for Lukoil's overseas assets in January 2026. OFAC's licences since then cover negotiation and maintenance through October 22, and Romania's Petrotel refinery went into insolvency.
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Starbase Louisiana turns Starship scaling into a fixed-capex problem. At 30 flights a day the pads cost about $913,000 a launch to amortize; at 1,000 flights a year they cost $10 million.
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