Energy:
1. Market News: Colombia suspends electricity exports to Ecuador.
2. Market News: Dubai has set the discount of its April official crude oil price to Oman futures at 30 cents per barrel.
3. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Novak: Russian oil production will reach 512 million tons in 2025; Russian coal production will reach 440 million tons in 2025; and Russian liquefied natural gas production will reach approximately 32 million tons in 2025.
4. US Energy Secretary Wright: EU regulations may threaten US natural gas imports from Europe. We need to more than double global oil production to meet growing demand and avoid energy poverty.
5. US natural gas futures surged over 80% in three days due to a surge in heating demand caused by severe cold weather and production losses caused by pipeline icing.
6. Industry sources say that trading company Vitor is shipping a shipment of Venezuelan crude oil to its Salas refinery in Italy.
7. The Trump administration said Thursday it would restructure or cancel nearly $84 billion in clean energy projects funded during the Biden administration.
8. Musk: The U.S. solar energy tariff barriers are extremely high, artificially inflating the economic cost of deploying solar power.
Precious Metals and Mining:
1. An explosion at a steel plant in Chhattisgarh, India, has killed six people and injured four.
2. NATO Secretary General Rutte: Key mineral development was not discussed in talks with U.S. President Trump.
3. The Capstone copper mine in Chile has suspended production due to a strike.
4. Greenland's Prime Minister: He believes Trump will not use force; they can discuss strengthening partnerships on mineral resources.
Agriculture:
1. India canceled more soybean oil orders from South America as the rupee plummeted to a record low.
2. The U.S. Congress will establish an ethanol task force to study the possibility of promoting higher ethanol content E15 gasoline blends throughout the U.S. 3. EU diplomats say the EU-Mercosur free trade agreement may be implemented as early as March, in a provisional form.
Middle East Situation:
1. US media: The US is considering a full withdrawal from Syria, potentially ending its more than decade-long military operation there.
2. Trump: A 25% tariff on any country trading with Iran will soon take effect.
Tariffs:
1. Colombian Ministry of Trade: Will impose a 30% tariff on some Ecuadorian imports.
