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⚡️The "gas emperor" has no clothes: U.S. leaves its entire northeast coast freezing
In less than five months, the natural gas terminal that has served the entire northeast coast of the United States for more than half a century is scheduled to close for good. During its time in operation, it gained status as the region's most important defense against power outages and freezing temperatures. However, the company that owns the gas terminal and a neighboring power plant doesn't care about such "little things" Management wants to get rid of the "unprofitable asset."
According to Reuters, the gas import infrastructure in Everett, near Boston, is at risk of shutting down in May, which coincides with the scheduled end-of-life shutdown of its largest customer, the Mystic power plant. Both facilities are owned by Constellation Energy Corp.
The problem is that the Port of Everett is getting gas by tanker from afar, mostly from Trinidad. This is because the supply of fuel to the coast started before the shale gas revolution in the United States. Hence, we have a paradoxical situation where problems with the construction of an onshore pipeline hinder domestic gas supplies, while keeping up with the image of a major global gas exporter doesn't let the U.S. redirect volumes from export to domestic use.
Constellation Energy officials have already "reassured" the public, who will be left to freeze in severe cold weather very soon, that Mystiq's falling capacity will be replaced with wind turbines and solar panels, along with batteries to store their energy. But these are so unreliable, as global practice shows, that the private firm's plans have angered residents throughout America's northeastern coast, which suffers from severe winter frosts.
Under media pressure, representatives of the terminal and power plant operator admitted that they had negotiated with U.S. LNG exporters to get their own gas, but were rebuffed because all the capacity (current and future) is booked by foreign customers for years to come. And no pipelines are being built domestically to buy natural gas before liquefaction.
Now coastal residents and gas terminal customers have one hope: imports from neighboring Canada. But there may be a problem with that approach too: U.S. shale producers have long bought up much of Canada's stock to re-export overseas and set world records. All in all, the ambitions of private corporations and lobbies in Washington have rendered the very own population of the "gas emperor with no clothes" defenseless against the winter colds.
If the operator company does not find a way to supply the region with cheap fuel in the next month and load the terminal, the fate of the entire critical infrastructure will be sealed.
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🇺🇸 #Oklahoma high school principal (Kirk Moore) seen charging at and disarming a school shooter.
The suspect, identified as 20-year-old Victor Hawkins, was a former student who said he wanted to shoot up the school “like the Columbine shooters did.” While taking down the shooter, Moore was shot in the leg. He is expected to recover.
When the Principal woke up that day, he never thought he would be tackling a gunman.
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🇨🇳🛢 How much strategic oil does the world actually have in reserve?
Global strategic crude oil inventories stood at ~2.5 BILLION barrels as of December 2025, according to the US Energy Information Administration.
China holds by far the largest stockpile at 1,397 million barrels, more than 3 times the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve of 413 million barrels, which itself sits at only 58% of its full storage capacity of 714 million barrels.
China added an average of 1.1 million barrels per day to its strategic inventories throughout 2025, with preliminary data suggesting it continued building stockpiles in early 2026 ahead of the Iran War.
Japan holds the 3rd-largest reserve at 263 million barrels, followed by OECD European countries at 179 million barrels.
Meanwhile, the US is releasing 172 million barrels from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve to suppress oil prices, part of a broader 400 million barrel coordinated release agreed by 32 IEA member nations in March.
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🛢 JP Morgan Warns Oil Market Out of Balance, Prices Must Rise
🔸The closure of the Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly 20% of the world’s oil flows, has removed 13.7 million barrels per day from global supply in April alone. A JP Morgan research note warns the market has no good way to replace it.
🔸Normally, spare production capacity in Saudi Arabia and the UAE acts as the market’s shock absorber. But that buffer has effectively been removed, eliminating the system’s first line of defense.
🔸With spare capacity unavailable, markets turned to inventories
➤ Global stockpiles are now being drained at ~7.1 mbd in April, an extraordinary pace, according to the note.
🔸Meanwhile, demand is collapsing because supply simply isn’t reaching users — “forced demand destruction.”The hardest hit sectors include:
▪️ Petrochemical plants across Asia are shutting down or slashing output as LPG, ethane, and naphtha flows from the Gulf collapse
▪️ Airline jet fuel ...
🛢⛽️ Global oil inventories are heading toward RECORD LOWS:
Global visible oil inventories have fallen -255 million barrels since the start of the conflict on February 27, to 7,864 million barrels.
Total estimated oil draws, including non-OECD refined products storage, have accelerated to 10.9 million barrels per day in April, the largest monthly draws on record since 2017.
Cumulative estimated draws since the start of the war now stand at 474 million barrels, with Hormuz flows holding at ~10% of normal, or 2.0 million barrels per day.
Meanwhile, even in an optimistic scenario where Strait of Hormuz flows begin recovering by late April, it is unlikely to prevent global visible inventories from reaching all-time lows, according to Goldman Sachs.
As inventories keep falling, physical oil markets are likely to require sharply higher prices for immediate delivery, since buyers cannot wait months for cheaper futures delivery when stocks are running critically low.
Goldman also warns...
